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[Fwd: [Culture] Special Invitation to Our Music Patrons!]
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American Composers Forum DC Chapter
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May 26, 2009 12:56 PDT
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Subject:
[Culture] Special Invitation to Our Music Patrons!
Date:
Tue, 26 May 2009 15:15:32 -0400
From:
cult-@la-maison-francaise.org
Reply-To:
cult-@la-maison-francaise.org
To:
<cult-@la-maison-francaise.org>
<span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Dear Music Lover,
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<span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">It is with great pleasure
that we extend to you an invitation
for two to the performance featuring Ensemble
InterContemporain member Christophe Desjardins (viola), Christophe
Lebreton (electronics) and Philippe Manoury (composer) on <span
style="font-family: Arial;">Thursday, May 28 at <st1:time
hour="19" minute="30"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">7:30pm<span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> at La Maison Française<span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">!
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<span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Experience the best in
contemporary French music by the most acclaimed performers in <span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">France<span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">!
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<span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">WHAT:<span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> Christophe Desjardins
(viola) & Christophe Lebreton (electronics) <span
style="font-family: Arial;">In the presence of composer Philippe
Manoury! (details below)
WHEN:
Thursday, May 28 at <span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">7:30 p.m.<span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">
WHERE: La
Maison Française, Embassy of France, <span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">4101 Reservoir Rd, NW
<span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">RESERVATIONS:<span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> <span
style="font-family: Arial;">required - Only the first
50 email requests will receive a confirmation and will be on the guest
list. (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:charles.-@ambafrance-us.org">charles.-@ambafrance-us.org)
- Please provide your surname,
first name and whether <span
style="font-family: Arial;">one or<span
style="font-family: Arial;"> two will attend<span
style="font-family: Arial;">.
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<span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">We look forward to
welcoming you to this rare evening of music making!
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<span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Warm regards,
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">----
Roland Celette
Cultural Attaché | Director of La Maison Française
<font
color="#0000ff">www.HouseofFranceDC.org
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<span
style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">ABOUT
PHILIPPE MANOURY<span
style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(178, 27, 14); font-family: Arial;">
Born in Tulle
(<span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">France<span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">), composer Philippe
Manoury is internationally recognized as the leading advocate of music
for performers and live electronics, focusing his attention to the
interface between performer and computer. His work is strongly
influenced by Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Iannis Xenakis.
He attended the Conservatoire de
Paris, was a member of IRCAM, a premier European music
institute focused on avant-garde
electro-acoustical art music, and studied with Claude Ballif and Max
Deutsch, a pupil of Arnold Schoenberg. He collaborated with Miller
Puckette, the developer of Max, a graphical development environment for
music and multimedia. Manoury's works have been commissioned by the
Council of Europe, the Bavarian State Opera, the <span
style="font-family: Arial;">Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and
have been performed around the world. His works can be heard on
Harmonia Mundi, Philips Classics and <span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Naxos<span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">.
Artist's link: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.philippemanoury.com/"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">www.philippemanoury.com
ABOUT
CHRISTOPHE DESJARDINS<span
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Violist Christophe Desjardins has performed works by Berio, Boulez,
Boesmans, Jarrell, Fedele, Nunes, Levinas, Harvey, Stroppa and Rihm. He
has played with the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, the Orchestra of the
Toscanini Foundation, the National Orchestra of Lyon, the Portuguese
Symphonic Orchestra and others throughout <span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Europe<span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">. He is a member of the
renowned Ensemble InterContemporain. He has recorded works for Deutsche
Grammophon and Aeon receiving critical acclaim.
Artist's link: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.christophedesjardins.com/"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">www.christophedesjardins.com
PROGRAM<span
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Gerard GRISEY - Prologue (1976)
15' for solo viola and electronic effects
Sébastien BÉRANGER - Le Triangle
de Pascal (2003) 10' for solo viola
Philippe MANOURY - Partita I
(2007) 45' for solo viola and live electronic effects
(Commission: Grame/Ministry of
Culture; Musical realization: Christophe Lebreton, Grame & Serge
Lemouton, Ircam)
Christophe Desjardins, viola
Christophe Lebreton, electronics
This
performance is made possible through a grant from the French-American
Fund for Contemporary Music.
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