Santa Cruz Chamber Players presents
The Garden, At Night
Symbolism and Psychology in Music
- When
- Event has passed (Sat Feb 25, 2012 - Sun Feb 26, 2012)
- Cost
- $10 - $25
- Tags
- Music, Classical Music
Description
With artistic director and flutist Lars Johannesson; pianist Susan Bruckner; cellist Judith Roberts; violist Susan Brown; harpist Jennifer Cass; and soprano Sheila Willey.The Garden has many symbolic meanings: a place of order, an earthly paradise; a place where the soul meets nature. Fertility, birth, and death. It is an image of the soul and innocence, of consciousness itself. In this concert we set a stage for these ideas to be experienced through music.
Tann’s "Gardens of Anna Maria Luisa De’ Medici" depicts the beauty of the garden: a place to delight the senses; nature under cultivation: the garden as an orderly, earthly paradise. Gubaidulina’s "The Garden of Joys and Sorrows" allows the listener to reflect and meditate upon the flow between a garden’s fruition and dying. As much an ornithologist as a composer, Messiaen based "Le Merle Noir (The Blackbird") on actual birdsong. Because of its enclosed nature, the garden is also a symbol of consciousness. Gorecki’s text for his "Requiem," taken from Shakespeare’s Hamlet: “Good night . . . flights of angels sing thee to thy rest,” symbolizes death and the loss of consciousness.
More Info
- Link
- http://www.scchamberplayers.org
- Call
- (831) 425-3149
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- (831) 420-5260 (Box Office)
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