[Imcamericorps] La Passon de Jeanne d'Arc (LIVE)

[Katy Vizdal]

Sorry this is short notice! but if interested hopefully you can make it out
tonight!
La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (LIVE)screened with a live musical score by
Vincent Calianno and performed by JACK quartet violist, John Pickford
Richards
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Network:
Global
Date:
Monday, November 16, 2009
Time:
8:00pm - 9:15pm
Location:
Music Building Auditorium
Street:
1114 W. Nevada st.
City/Town:
Urbana, IL

Description
The historical account of Joan of Arc's trial, torture and death as depicted
in the 1928 silent cinema masterpiece, "La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc" will be
accompanied by a live musical performance with music by Vincent Calianno.
The score, written for solo viola and pre-recorded electronics/processed
violas will be performed by JACK quartet and Alarm Will Sound violist, John
Pickford Richards. This free screening will take place on Monday, the 16th
of November 2009 at 8pm in the Music Building Auditorium (located on the
corner of Nevada and Goodwin streets.)

Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer and starring Maria Falconetti and Antonin
Artaud, "La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc" is considered a masterpiece of late
silent cinema. The film is shot mostly in close-ups which heightens the
stark emotional and expressive acting and the bizarre, anachronistic sets of
the film. The original version of the film was lost for decades after a fire
destroyed the master negative. Dreyer himself attempted to reassemble a
version from out-takes and surviving prints, but he died believing his
original cut was lost forever. In one of the most important discoveries in
cinema history, a virtually complete print of Dreyer's original version was
found in 1981 in a janitor's closet of an Oslo mental institution.

Calianno's technically demanding 72-minute score which accompanies the film,
accesses a multitude of musical styles and emotions - from plainchant to
Bach to the avant-garde. The score was premiered in 2003 and has since
traveled around the country, even receiving it's own solo show in New York's
Le Poisson Rouge. This performance will be the Illinois premiere.

* * * * * *

Called “wholesome-looking” by the New York Times, violist John Pickford
Richards has gained a reputation for performing new and unusual music
throughout North America and Europe.

He is a founding member of the ensemble Alarm Will Sound, bringing him into
contact with composers such as John Adams, Meredith Monk, and Steve Reich at
venues including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the Whitney Museum of
American Art. Alarm Will Sound has held residencies at Harvard University,
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, Duke
University, and Dickinson College.

In addition to his work with Alarm Will Sound, John is a founding member of
the JACK Quartet, which has worked closely with composers Helmut Lachenmann,
György Kurtág, Matthias Pintscher, Wolfgang Rihm, and Elliott Sharp with
appearances at Carnegie Hall, the Lucerne Festival, and La Biennale di
Venezia.

John has performed as soloist with the Pasadena Symphony, Armenian
Philharmonic, Ossia New Music, and, most recently, with the Lucerne Festival
Academy Orchestra playing the solo part to Luciano Berio’s Chemins II under
the direction of Pierre Boulez. He holds degrees from the Interlochen Arts
Academy and Eastman School of Music where his primary teachers were David
Holland and John Graham.

***

Wishing to distance himself from the long outdated sounds of contemporary
American academic music, the music of Vincent Calianno (b. 1979, Buffalo,
NY) is instead inspired by the renegade eloquence and radical temperament of
the American vernacular. His works often combine a unique confluence of
disparate musical colors, muscular rhythms, and complex, virtuosic textures.
His music is at once dark and violent as well as introspective and lyrical.
Calianno’s diverse musical corpus includes opera, large ensemble works,
chamber music and electroacoustica. His long-standing interest in visual
media has led him to compose music for short and feature-length films, the
silent cinema as well as for his own film and media work.

His media and silent cinema works have been exhibited and performed
internationally, at places such as The Banff Centre (Canada), Le Poisson
Rouge, The Juilliard School, Merkin Concert Hall (NYC), The Here-Here
Gallery (Cleveland) et al. His music has been performed by The International
Contemporary Ensemble, Ossia, Echoi, artifact, The New York Miniaturist
Ensemble, The Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, and many others.

Calianno received his B.M. in 2001 from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music
and his M.A. in 2006 from the Eastman School of Music. He is currently
pursuing his doctorate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

-- 
Katy Vizdal
Performance Venue Coordinator
Independent Media Center
202 S. Broadway
Urbana, IL 61801

Web: http://www.ucimc.org/
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