ASU Kerr: Rhythms of Life

BELOVED BRAHMS Starring EDWARD HERRMANN as Eduard Hanslik
January 3, 2009 • 8:00 p.m.
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December 31, 1899, 10 pm: The final hours of the 19th century and Eduard Hanslick, the most powerful music critic in Europe, ardent friend of Johannes Brahms, looks back on the politics and art of the 1800s: the battle between Brahms, a believer in ‘absolute’ music using the forms of fugues, sonatas, symphonies, and Wagner, who felt these forms were obsolete and a ‘new’ music was needed for contemporary truths to be revealed Experience the highly charged atmosphere between the Brahmsian and Wagnerite camps of true believers. Music of Brahms, Liszt, Dvorak and Schubert, performed by Chamber Music PLUS Southwest principals cellist Harry Clark and pianist Sanda Schuldmann.

World Premiere of “LOVE LETTERS: FROM BEETHOVEN TO BERNSTEIN” Starring MICHAEL LEARNED
February 6, 2009 • 8:00 p.m.
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In anticipation of Valentine’s Day, we offer the passionate letters and writings of more than a dozen composers–European, North and South American, over three centuries— interwoven with the composers’ equally impassioned music to create a theatrical tapestry in words and sound of their most intimate and revelatory thought. Music performed by Clark and Schuldmann, and other renowned musician colleagues.

“A BEAUTIFUL DECEPTION: FROM IMPRESSIONISM TO SURREALISM” Starring ROBERT PICARDO Portraying Erik Satie
March 6, 2009 • 8:00 p.m.
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From the seeds of impressionistic thought through the Dadaist movement, the eccentric and fascinating Parisian composer Erik Satie knew every important French artist in music, visual arts and theater. Through his brilliant rhetoric one explores the idée fixe of this period: ‘To name an object is to suppress the enjoyment, the dream is to suggest it.’ Music of Satie, Debussy, and Ravel. Prior to the performance at 7:45 p.m., a rare showing and piano performance of the surrealist short film ‘Entr’acte’ (1924) by director René Clair–the very first film with a dedicated original score, composed by Satie.

“THE CLARK–SCHULDMANN DUO AND ALL THAT JAZZ”
Apirl 3, 2009 • 8 p.m.
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Sanda and Harry on stage SENZA ACTORS! Center stage is “Suite for Cello and Jazz Piano Trio (piano, drums and bass)” by Claude Bolling, plus some added savories by George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Astor Piazzolla. A chamber jazz event not to be missed.