Quatuor Tana in afternoon Concert with Joanna Bailie, Max Savikangas and Philip Glass

Category: concert
Date: 25/03/2010 - 12:00 - 13:30
Event Location: Chapelle de FUCaM

Re:New Music Ensemble(s):
Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles

Re:New Music Work(s):
Maito
Five Famous Adagios

This afternoon concert in Mons, Belgium will present its audience for three pieces for string quartet. The two pieces: Maito (1999) by Max Savikangas, for String Quartet and a reciter and Five Famous Adagios (2006) by Joanna Bailie are picked out from the RE:NEW Music database, and nominated by the Finnish ensemble UUsinta and the English London Sinfonietta. Tana Quartet is a part of the Belgian ensemble Musiques Nouvelles. March 25 at 12.00, Chapelle de FUCaM.

Antoine Maisonhaute, violin
Jeanne Maisonhaute, cello
Mickaël Bonnay, violin
Romain Montfort, viola
Stephen Shank, récitant

Chikako Hosoda is replacing violinist Mickaël Bonnay in this concert.

Program:
Maito (1999) by Max Savikangas, for String Quartet and a reciter
Five Famous Adagios (2006) by Joanna Bailie, for String Quartet
String Quartet n°3 (Mishima) by Philip Glass

Maito (Milk) for string quartet and a reciter was inspired by the
similarly titled text by an artist friend Teemu Mäki. The text was
originally part of Mäki’s video art work. At the end of the video the
text is read while a female head in an aquarium is slowly covered in
milk. This video inspired me to write a composition based on the same
text. Milk is a melodrama, combining music and spoken text, which is a
form of composition that I feel is too often overlooked nowadays.