The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts continues its very cool - & very fruitful - collaboration with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra with a classical contemporary program that dovetails with the newly opened Old Masters show:
Tues, Nov 11 at 7:30pm (doors open at 7pm)
Wed, Nov 12 at 7:30pm (doors open at 7pm)
PAT METHENY/arr. Vieaux Five Songs in the Form of a Baroque Suite,
with movements for solo guitar by Bach and Weiss (2005).
BACH Prelude, BWV 998
METHENY Last Train Home (Prelude)
BACH Allemande from Cello Suite No. 3
METHENY Antonia (Allemande)
WEISS Passacaille in D major
METHENY Tell Her You Saw Me (Chaconne)
BACH Gavotte I and II en Rondeau from Lute Suite No. 3
Gigue from Lute Suite No. 2
METHENY Question and Answer (Gavotte and Double)
James (Gigue)
Jason Vieaux, guitar
STEVEN MACKEY Physical Property
Jooyeon Kong, violin I
Asako Kuboki, violin II
Jonathan Vinocour, viola
Bjorn Ranheim, cello
Steven Mackey, electric guitar
HENDRIX/arr. Mackey TBA (To be announced from stage)
Jooyeon Kong, violin I
Asako Kuboki, violin II
Jonathan Vinocour, viola
Bjorn Ranheim, celloClassical guitarist Jason Vieaux has taken a work by jazz guitarist Pat Metheny and given it a Baroque mix, adding Bach and one of Bach's contemporaries to make a stimulating guitar conversation between forms past and present. Steven Mackey takes the changeable form of the chamber ensemble and plugs in his electric guitar to join SLSO violinists Jooyeon Kong and Asako Kuboki, violist Jonathan Vinocour and cellist Bjorn Ranheim. Then the acoustic ensemble remains to explore a work by an Old Master of the electric guitar, Jimi Hendrix.
This concert is a part of the SLSO Guitar Festival.
The pieces performed relate directly to the exhibition Ideal (Dis-) Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer and are performed by members of the Saint Louis Symphony. Each of the programs are chosen by Music Director David Robertson based on the way they relate to the exhibition concepts and the works of art on view.
