Starscape
March 16 and 18, 2016, 7:30 pm (pre-concert talk at 6:30)
One of the greatest statements in the percussion repertoire, Gérard Grisey’s Le Noir de l’Étoile takes both its inspiration and sound sources from recordings made of pulsars. These rhythmic phenomena, arriving from enormous distances, make our world come alive with pulsations. Looking inward rather than outward, Marianthi Papalexandri-alexandri’s kein thema looks at the smallest of sounds and inspirations – the small brushing sounds of skin on a temple block, the rhythmic swoop of a marble rolling – and makes chamber music from them.
Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri, kein thema
Three Percussionists
Gérard Grisey, Le noir de l’Étoile
Six Percussionists