POSTPONED
ANNE CARSON, PHILIP GLASS, SAMUEL BECKETT:
GLASS, IRONY and GOD
Wolfgang Tillmans - 'Fire Island' (2015)
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Anne Carson
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PROGRAM:
Samuel BECKETT - QUAD I (1981)
Anne CARSON - LECTURE ON THE HISTORY OF SKYWRITING (2016)
Samuel BECKETT - QUAD II (1981)
Philip GLASS - GLASSWORKS (1984)
Anne Carson and Robert Currie, readers
Eyvind Kang, violin
Jessika Kenney, voice
ECHOI ENSEMBLE
Jonathan Hepfer, conductor
Samuel BECKETT - QUAD I (1981)
Anne CARSON - LECTURE ON THE HISTORY OF SKYWRITING (2016)
Samuel BECKETT - QUAD II (1981)
Philip GLASS - GLASSWORKS (1984)
Anne Carson and Robert Currie, readers
Eyvind Kang, violin
Jessika Kenney, voice
ECHOI ENSEMBLE
Jonathan Hepfer, conductor
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During a 1981 production of Samuel Beckett's Quad I and II under the direction of the author,
Beckett told his performers that there was to be "an intermission of 100,000 years" between the two parts. In Anne Carson's Lecture on the History of Skywriting, the narrator describes an existence without linear time, which it refers to as a human and mortal invention. Philip Glass's Glassworks (1984) is, to my mind, the consummate distillation of a compositional language with its origins in Beckett's theater works. It comes, it goes, it whispers, it shouts, it waits, it mumbles, and occasionally, it sings. This program, the finale of Monday Evening Concerts' eightieth anniversary season brings us a very special guest: the magnificent Anne Carson, who will serve as the narrator for her breathtaking Lecture on the History of Skywriting. Please join us as we celebrate the work of three alchemists whose charming, poignant, inscrutable and brilliant works take us to a place outside of the framework of linear time and Euclidean geometry. |