{"id":42260,"date":"2017-01-27T14:43:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T19:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=42260"},"modified":"2017-01-27T14:45:32","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T19:45:32","slug":"preview-salvatore-sciarrino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2017\/01\/27\/preview-salvatore-sciarrino\/","title":{"rendered":"PREVIEW | U of T Faculty of Music Brings Salvatore Sciarrino to Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_42261\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42261\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42261\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/01\/salvatoresciarrino.jpg\" alt=\"Salvatore Sciarrino\" width=\"1024\" height=\"766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/01\/salvatoresciarrino.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/01\/salvatoresciarrino-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/01\/salvatoresciarrino-768x575.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42261\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Salvatore Sciarrino<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Salvatore Sciarrino, the highly respected and widely performed Italian composer, is coming to Toronto and is bringing with him a whole week of new music.<\/p>\n<p>There are dozens \u2014 if not hundreds \u2014 of successful composers from Europe who have made extended techniques and sound production their calling card, but Sciarrino manages to stand beyond the rest, while never really departing from the traditions and practice of post-1945 European new music. His works for flute have potentially revolutionized modern flute composition, due to their sophisticated blend of sound manipulation and tone, creating an extensive rhetorical language freed from the gimmickry and cheap effect of most contemporary extended techniques.<\/p>\n<p>The sound-language of Sciarrino\u2019s music is instantly identifiable as a composer raised on modernism, but the adage \u201c<em>je ne sais quoi\u201d<\/em> comes to mind while listening: there is something else here.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4OtYfuzosX0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>[<strong>Codex Purpureus I<\/strong> (1983) for string trio. Ensemble Recherche.]<\/p>\n<p>Largely self-taught, the 69-year-old composer\u2019s music is held together by an incantatory and powerful self-will, as well as a distinctly Italian sense of caprice.<\/p>\n<p>Take, for example, Sciarrino\u2019s 1983 work, <strong>Codex Purpureus I<\/strong>, for string trio. The music, consisting of small, flickering gestures, mediates between presence and weight, tone colour and noise, like orphaned Baroque ornamentations.\u00a0 The sounds emanating from the bow and strings never push themselves, rather, they seem to tremble and flicker like a cowering penitent in front of a divine presence. As <strong>Codex Purpureus I<\/strong> progresses, these gestures coagulate, sparkle and frequently burn out in a constant mediation between sound and silence. The results are always enigmatic and sometimes overwhelming for listeners: what could this all possibly mean?<\/p>\n<p>Despite the radical and enticing sounds in his music, glancing at Sciarrino\u2019s operas reveal a preoccupation with the past: reinterpretations of Shakespeare\u2019s <strong>Macbeth<\/strong>, Wagner\u2019s <strong>Lohengrin<\/strong>, and his 1996-98 work <strong>Luci mie Traditrici \u201cThe Killing Flower\u201d<\/strong>, loosely based on the life of radical Renaissance-era composer Carlo Gesualdo, which will receive its Canadian premiere during Sciarrino\u2019s residence as the 2017 Roger D. Moore Distinguished Guest in Composition at the University of Toronto New Music Festival. The festival will feature several performances of Sciarrino\u2019s music by local musicians (including a concert by Toronto\u2019s oldest-running new music producer, New Music Concerts), student groups, as well as visiting musicians from Italy.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, how does one listen to the music of Sciarrino? There is no straight answer, but perhaps the solution lies in opening yourself up to the ephemerality of materiality, and the exquisiteness and strangeness of sound and music itself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Opera in Concert: \u201cThe Killing Flower\u201d by Salvatore Sciarrino<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Produced by Wallace Halladay and New Music Projects.<\/p>\n<p>February 1, 7:30 p.m., Walter Hall, University of Toronto Faculty of Music (80 Queens Park, Toronto)<\/p>\n<p>$30 regular, $20 seniors, $10 student<\/p>\n<p>Pre-concert talk at 6:30 p.m. with Dr. Catherine Moore and U of T\u2019s Theatre of Voices directed by David Fallis<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Music Concerts: \u201cFour Views of Salvatore Sciarrino\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>February 5, 8 p.m. Walter Hall, University of Toronto Faculty of Music (80 Queens Park, Toronto)<\/p>\n<p>$35 regular, $25 seniors\/arts workers, $10 student<\/p>\n<p>7:15 p.m. pre-concert talk.<\/p>\n<p>More Salvatore Sciarrino and new music events at the 2017 University of Toronto New Music Festival, running January 28\u00a0to February 5.<\/p>\n<p>Calendar with full event schedule <a href=\"https:\/\/music.utoronto.ca\/concerts-events.php\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><b><i>#LUDWIGVAN<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salvatore Sciarrino, the highly respected and widely performed Italian composer, is coming to Toronto and is bringing with him a whole week of new music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":42261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6439,18,4557,63],"tags":[9145,3430],"yst_prominent_words":[9140,9131,9143,9133,9129,9136,9127,9141,9130,9125,9024,9139,9144,9134,9126,9137,7549,9135,9132,9128],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/01\/salvatoresciarrino.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-aZC","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42260"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42268,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42260\/revisions\/42268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42260"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}