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Disparate Voices

DISPARATE VOICES
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 — 7:30pm
The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library
1008 Wall St, La Jolla, CA

San Diego New Music presents a program curated by Batya MacAdam-Somer, violin
with Bonnie Lander, soprano

With Disparate Voices, Bonnie Lander and Batya MacAdam-Somer explore the concepts of story and self through the surrealistic musical poetry of Giacinto Scelsi and the masterpiece of Dada sound poetry by Kurt Schwitters. Southern California composer Carolyn Chen offers a quirky, intimate settings of different texts for singing and speaking violinist. Rounding out the program is one of the most celebrated works by Hungarian composer György Kurtág, a portrait of Franz Kafka through a kaleidoscopic set of miniatures evoking the time, place and mood of Kafka's writings.

Giacinto Scelsi,
Kurt Schwitters, Ursonate, first movement
Carolyn Chen, Some Dragons (San Diego premiere)
György Kurtág, Kafka Fragments, Books II and III

$25 General Admission / $20 Athnaeum Members, seniors / $5 Students
Click here to purchase tickets from the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library

 

PREVIEW THE MUSIC

Kurtág, Kafka Fragments
Schwitters, Ursonate

ABOUT THE COMPOSERS

Giacinto Scelsi
Kurt Schwitters
Carolyn Chen
György Kurtág

ABOUT THE PERFORMERS

Batya MacAdam-Somer
Bonnie Lander

CONCERT PROGRAM TIMING

Total concert time including intermission – 90 minutes

 
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