We’re celebrating Valentine’s Day here with a three-day festival dedicated to the thing we hold most dear, namely new music. On Friday we have a seminar with guest Bruno Louchouarn, a French-Mexican composer whose background in cognitive science and interest in interdisciplinary arts has lent his work an unusual perspective.
Saturday night we have chamber music from France and Finland by Nicolas Bacri, Anthony Girard, Bruno Mantevani and Kalevi Aho.
Two concerts Sunday: in the afternoon wind ensemble works by Steven Bryant, Frank Ticheli and Eric Whitacre. In the evening some old music by Shostakovich and Carter, and the NC premiere of the complete version of my own Fifteen Minutes, about which nobody can stop me from saying the following:
Andy Warhol predicted that in the future everyone would be famous for fifteen minutes. Fifteen Minutes is the journey of a celebrity wannabe trying on a number of poses to catch the attention, but the facades invariably crumble, revealing equal measures of brilliance and emptiness.