Spring 2016 Concert Series: Music, Mind, Mirth and Mayhem
No Exit is pleased to be presenting the second installment in the ensemble’s year-long celebration of the music, mind, mirth and mayhem of the original musical Dadaist, Eric Satie. In an effort to present Satie’s music as just not a bit of history, but as part of a ‘living’ legacy, No Exit has commissioned seven new pieces which represent each composer’s personal take on Satie and how his influence has shaped their own musical universe. These will be presented in the form of six short piano pieces a la Satie along with a structured improvisation based on Satie’s incomparable Vexations. Happy 150th Monsieur Satie!
Thank you to our special guest performers Linda White, Scott McKee and Gunnar Owen Hirthe.
No Exit April 2016 Program (Click for complete PDF)
“Sean Gabriel played the idiomatic work with flair.”
-Mike Telin, ClevelandClassical.com (Apr,2016)
“Nicholas Underhill, as always, played with sensitivity”
-Mike Telin, ClevelandClassical.com (Apr,2016)
“Cara Tweed and Nicholas Diodore performed it beautifully”
-Mike Telin, ClevelandClassical.com (Apr,2016)
Six Pieces a la Satie (2016) “World Premiere”
Geoffrey Burleson (b.1964)Forests: real and imagined
Timothy Beyer (b.1970)
Spiritualites Simultane
James Praznik (b.1985)
Chant Extatique
Robert Honstein (b.1980)
Gnopelledie
David Rakowski (b.1958)
Pensees Tetues
Kevin Eppich (b.1978)
Duo for Violin and Cello (1982)
Heinz Holliger (b.1939)
RIDE (2014) “World Premiere”
Buck McDaniel (b.1994)
Intermission
Diptyque (1981)
Georges Delerue (b.1925 – d.1992)
I. Poco lento
II. Allegro
Vexations? (2016) “World Premiere”
James Praznik (b.1985)
I. ou il est question de pardon musique spectrale
II. pause – Tres Lent
III. pour le pauvre minimalisme europeen
IV. pause – Assez vif
V. A propos de Satie et Boulez
Review
April 20, 2016
No Exit in “Music, Mind, Mirth, and Mayhem,” music influenced by Erik Satie, at Spaces (April 8)
by Mike Telin, clevelandclassical.com