Скачать или смотреть Exploring Modalities of Collaboration with Composer Wang Jie / Next Festival 2020

In this talk, I’m excited to unpack the kinds of collaboration that have vivified my work, my career and my passion. I also look forward to contemplating with you what collaboration can mean for composers who have been accustomed to working alone. I hope to lead you through a living world that is both intrinsic and collaborative. It needs exploring, especially from living composers.

Speaker Bio:
Part cartoon character, part virtuoso, musical whiz kid Wang Jie has been nudging serious music and its concert audiences into spectacular frontiers over the past few seasons. Her “FROM NEW YORK, WITH LOVE" transformed a classic percussionist into a dervish-like rock star. Her chamber opera “FLOWN” dramatized the end of a rocky love affair by having the two pianists attack each other and their shared instrument. Despite having the worst title in the history of music, "OBOE CONCERTO FOR THE GENUINE HEART OF SADNESS” channeled the power of Liang Wang, the principle oboist of the New York Philharmonic, and the League of Composers Orchestra into an orgiastic whirlwind. An unexpected collaboration with comedy writer Paul Simms inspired a song cycle titled “Lord? Please Don’t Let Me Die in a Funny Way”, coaxing belly laughs from an otherwise sedate Opera America audience. Not one to let herself off the hook at her Carnegie Hall debut with the American Composers Orchestra, she shape-shifted into a monkey god swiveling on stage between three keyboards during a performance of her concert opera "FROM THE OTHER SKY.”

http://wangjiemusic.com/