Elements 4
May 1, 2014 at 8:30 pm
Two Moon Art House & Cafe
315 Fourth Ave. (between 2nd/3rd Streets)
Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Element Themes: Fire, Desert, Sun, & Fear
The Sands/Geology of a Stone
Devised/Performed by
Laura Hartle, Patrice Miller,
Stephanie Willing, Morgan Zipf-Meister
This is an excerpt from a larger work in progress, commissioned by Spark & Echo Arts.
The piece explores the Western idea of healing, based on a story found in 2 Kings 2 wherein
G-d heals water and barren land of Jericho for Elisha. Using crowd-sourced narrative,
the project asks what the environment of healing is, and what we are expecting from the various
powers that be as we weather its storms. The finished piece will be performed in December, 2014.
Lascia ch'io pianga
Music by G. F. Handel
Recorder-David A. Green
The melody for the song began its life as an Asian dance in
Handel’s opera Almira, and then used in his opera Rinaldo.
May 16, 1973
Poem by by Wislawa Szymborska
Translated by Aleksandra Miglowiec
Music and Soundscape by Ann Warren
Projections-Allan Markowitz
Actor-Telma Bernardo, Xylophone-Manuela Lechler,
Piano-Kyoko Oyobe, Melodica-Ann Warren
The way fear pervades your life
especially when you are stopped for no reason.
Avaz
Music by Ivy Adrian
Piano-Ivy Adrian
"Avaz" which means “sand”
inspired by its riverlike patterns that ever shift while gulls sound their calls.
Brothers in Arms
Film by Amos Ezra Katz
Score by Chris Kadis Moscato
This film is borrowed from the NYU library of student films
as a vehicle for my one of my passions, microtonal music.
The music is composed with William Sethares' Dynamic Tonality,
a theory for consonantly tonal harmonic microtonal music.
Fireflies
Nine short musical sketches by Manuela Lechler
Poems by Rabindranath Tagore
Projections-Robert Morton
Piano-Kyoko Oyobe, Saxophone-Manuela Lechler
Actor-David A. Green
Set to nine poems by Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali polymath (1861-1941).
Philosophy, Poetry, Music, Art and Nature are universes within one universe: Creation.
Tagore’s masterpieces of poetry are jewels that have inspired us…
Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun
Music by Lillian Redl
Text by William Shakespeare
Soprano-Jennifer Wu, Soprano-Jillian Nulton,
Alto-Carrie Magness Radna,
Tenor-Drew Elliott, Bass-Evan Sarzin
This piece is a 5-part a cappella choral setting of the famous song from
Act IV, Scene ii of William Shakespeare's play Cymbeline. Although in the play two brothers sing it
as a sort of requiem to a boy whom they believe to be dead (but who is actually, in true Shakespearean
style, a young woman who has unwittingly taken a sleeping potion) the text makes such a powerful
statement on its own that it works well even for a larger group of singers. There are hints of Renaissance harmonies and counterpoint in the piece as an homage to the music of the time in which the play
was written, but there are also harmonies from a much later, and more modern, palette.
Phi
Music by Manuela Lechler
Piano-Kyoko Oyobe, Saxophone-Manuela Lechler
Inspired by Phi, the Golden ratio
Note: a/b = (a+b)/a = 1.6180339887498948420 …
Phi is not just a number or ratio that is expressed in digits. It is also inherent to all living things of
which we are not fully aware of except on a sub-conscious level. It is the reason
why we find things so pleasing and aesthetically beautiful. It’s the reason why the Human
form looks appealing to us; the reason why anything that exhibits itself within this ratio is so alluring to us.
It is found in Nature and also extends into the world of Art and Philosophy.
Even our heart beats in Phi ratios!
Ashes
Written by Jasmina Sinanovic
Music and Sound by Gina Monc
Video by I. R. Marin
Performed by JZ Bich, I. R. Marin, and Gina Monc
Inspired by Jasmina's (Jz) experience of the war in Bosnia,
globalization and general power hierarchy in today's world.
Spring Sky
Music by Kyoko Oyobe
Piano-Kyoko Oyobe, Saxophone-Manuela Lechler