June 21, Thursday
12:00pm - CMF@Noon series [Free]
New York Center for Art and Media Studies, 44 West 28th Street, Floor 7
Meet and greet some of the Chelsea Music Festival artists and staff and enjoy the Visual Arts Exhibit gallery at NYCAMS which is Chelsea Music Festival's 2012 headquarters!
Park Avenue Armory
7:00 p.m.- Debussy V: Poet of the Avant-Garde
The 24 Preludes have, with their modernity and innovative style, opened the way forward for composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. Written between 1909 and 1913, the piano Preludes express the troubled emotional atmosphere prevalent in Europe before the First World War. Working at the peak of his powers, Debussy succeeded in creating a unique climate of transcendent poetic inspiration in each of the miniature works. The pianist Hugues Leclère plans to illuminate this musical heritage of Debussy's two books of Preludes by juxtaposing them with 22 modern compositions; works mainly by the foremost French composers, who represent the most important contemporary trends, but also by the American James Wintle, and the young British star, Thomas Adès. Both books of 12 Preludes interwoven with modern works make up a program lasting 3 and a half hours.
This evening’s program features a themed intermission that includes an elaborate culinary reception by chef Lance Nitahara & Presentation by parfumeur Christophe Laudamiel who will awaken senses you may have never used listening to a concert. Debussy himself wrote in 1903 that “an instrumental preparation where the perfume of the harps mixes itself with the lemon scent of the oboes, bathed in the juices of string sonorities and interrupted by pauses, in which the captured audience releases its sighs, guarantees the demand of an encore.”
PROGRAM
Debussy Préludes Book I (1-12)
numbers added to Debussy’s Préludes below:
1. Danseuses de Delphes
Chemins qui ne mènent nulle part .................................................François Narboni (b.1963)
2. Voiles
En écho ......................................................................................Philippe Hersant (b.1948)
3. Le vent dans la plaine
Thrift ..............................................................................................Thomas Adès (b.1971)
4. «Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir»
Été .................................................................................................Nicolas Bacri (b.1961)
5. Les collines d'Anacapri
Au-delà de la lumière d’Anacapri .....................................................Anthony Girard (b.1959)
6. Des pas sur la neige
Prélude …...........................................................................................Karol Beffa (b.1973)
7. Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest
Ce qu’ont vu… les chevaux d’Alain ....................................................Alain Louvier (b.1945)
8. La fille aux cheveux de lin
Chanson d’après un poème de Ronsard …................................Françoise Choveaux (b.1953)
9. La sérénade interrompue
La Pythie l’avait prédit ...............................................................Richard Dubugnon (b.1968)
10. La cathédrale engloutie
Dense… Englouti ….......................................................................Philippe Leroux (b.1959)
11. La danse de Puck
Comedy sketch ...............................................................................James Wintle (b.1942)
12. Minstrels
Hugues Leclère, piano
°New York Premiere Performance
Themed Intermission
with culinary reception “Intermezzo” prepared by chef Lance Nitahara
&
a presentation entitled “The sounds and fragrances swirl through the evening air”
by parfumeur Christophe Laudamiel, creator of this year’s official Festival Fragrance.
Debussy Préludes Book II (13-24)
13. Brouillards
Vent d’automne ...........................................................................Hugues Dufourt (b. 1943)
14. Feuilles mortes
Debucide ....................................................................................................Laurent Durupt
15. La Puerta del Vino
Tarte au chocolat .......................................................................Bruno Mantovani (b. 1974)
16. Les Fées sont d'exquises danseuses
Après… « les fées » ..........................................................................Gilbert Amy (b. 1936)
17. Bruyères
Intermezzo …...............................................................................Thierry Escaich (b.1965)
18. Général Lavine - excentric
No-ja-li .........................................................................................Gérard Pesson (b. 1958)
19. La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune
Les Parhélies ..............................................................................Suzanne Giraud (b. 1958)
20. Ondine
Mister Quick Pick ....................................................................Marc-Olivier Dupin (b. 1954)
21. Hommage à S. Pickwick Esq. P.P.M.P.C.
Le chant du Nâga ............................................................................Pierre Thilloy (b. 1970)
22. Canope
Sixtes et quintes, quartes altérées…les larmes des sons ...............Michael Levinas (b. 1949)
23. Les tierces alternées
Echappée ................................................................................. Frédéric Durieux (b. 1959)
24. Feux d'artifice
Hugues Leclère, piano
All 22 reflections on Debussy’s Preludes are receiving their New York Premiere Performance this evening.
Debussy V: Poet of the Avant-Garde received support from the Institut français, SACEM, SPEDIDAM, Francis et Mica Salabert Foundation, Saint-Gobain PPC, Région Lorraine, DRAC Lorraine, Paris CRR, Lyon CNSMD, Ville de Nancy and Nancyphonies.
