Performances
Dear Friends,
Our final performances of February showcase the best in American modern dance and European classical music masterworks.
On February 24 and 25, after a six-year absence, the groundbreaking Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company returns to Zellerbach Hall in the West Coast premiere of Story/Time, Mr. Jones's most recent work. Story/Time pays homage to maverick American composer John Cage's 1958 work Indeterminacy, in which a speaker (Cage) recites a selection of brief stories arranged by chance while a musician (David Tudor) performs a spontaneously created score. In Story/Time, Mr. Jones appears onstage to recite 70 one-minute, often autobiographical stories which he has ordered by chance procedures. For each story he has created a distinct choreography that is performed by the expert dancers in the company and accompanied by composer Ted Coffey's extemporaneously rendered score. In his program note, Mr. Jones writes that the juxtapositions resulting from chance procedures "make for an interesting and resonant dissonance," and we most certainly agree. His personal, idiosyncratic use of chance is part of a hundred-year-old American tradition of incorporating indeterminacy into works of art and an acknowledgment of the continuing influence of John Cage on the centenary year of his birth.
On February 29 the great Hungarian pianist Andr ás Schiff returns to Cal Performances for the first time since 2005. Mr. Schiff's program comprises three milestones of more than 200 years of music history, beginning with J. S. Bach's Three-Part Inventions, 15 short contrapuntal studies that vary in mood and character. The Inventions are followed by Béla Bartók's 1926 Piano Sonata, a signal work of 20th-century neoclassicism which incorporates Hungarian folk elements while following classical sonata form. Mr. Schiff rounds out the program with Beethoven's colossal Diabelli Variations, 33 contrasting, stylistically diverse miniatures derived from a simple waltz and one of the most imaginative works in the piano literature. In this concert the combination of repertoire and interpreter could not be more ideal.
I look forward to welcoming you to these performances.
Matías Tarnopolsky
Director, Cal Performances
Dear Friends,
Our final performances of February showcase the best in American modern dance and European classical music masterworks.
On February 24 and 25, after a six-year absence, the groundbreaking Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company returns to Zellerbach Hall in the West Coast premiere of Story/Time, Mr. Jones's most recent work. Story/Time pays homage to maverick American composer John Cage's 1958 work Indeterminacy, in which a speaker (Cage) recites a selection of brief stories arranged by chance while a musician (David Tudor) performs a spontaneously created score. In Story/Time, Mr. Jones appears onstage to recite 70 one-minute, often autobiographical stories which he has ordered by chance procedures. For each story he has created a distinct choreography that is performed by the expert dancers in the company and accompanied by composer Ted Coffey's extemporaneously rendered score. In his program note, Mr. Jones writes that the juxtapositions resulting from chance procedures "make for an interesting and resonant dissonance," and we most certainly agree. His personal, idiosyncratic use of chance is part of a hundred-year-old American tradition of incorporating indeterminacy into works of art and an acknowledgment of the continuing influence of John Cage on the centenary year of his birth.
On February 29 the great Hungarian pianist Andr ás Schiff returns to Cal Performances for the first time since 2005. Mr. Schiff's program comprises three milestones of more than 200 years of music history, beginning with J. S. Bach's Three-Part Inventions, 15 short contrapuntal studies that vary in mood and character. The Inventions are followed by Béla Bartók's 1926 Piano Sonata, a signal work of 20th-century neoclassicism which incorporates Hungarian folk elements while following classical sonata form. Mr. Schiff rounds out the program with Beethoven's colossal Diabelli Variations, 33 contrasting, stylistically diverse miniatures derived from a simple waltz and one of the most imaginative works in the piano literature. In this concert the combination of repertoire and interpreter could not be more ideal.
I look forward to welcoming you to these performances.
Matías Tarnopolsky
Director, Cal Performances
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