MITO Settembre Musica - Torino Milano - Festival Internazionale della Musica

• Milano
• 20 september
• saturday

Triennale Bovisa
5 p.m.

Signs
Painting-musical performance
for Orchestra featuring child painters

Music by George Crumb
"Makrokosmos I and II"
(24 fantasy pieces on the zodiac)
for amplified piano

The Gabriele Amadori
Child Painters Orchestra,
coordination and pictorial performance

featuring the participation of
Antonio Ballista, piano

Signs is aperformance that combines music, painting and body movement.
The zodiac theme is taken on by a George Crumb score that makes its debut performance in Italia.
This is music rich in tension and "cosmic" notions, translated in visual terms by a young children's orchestra of painters, prepared for the performance through workshops held by the Fondazione Mazzotta, during the days prior to the concert. Open to the public, by reservation only.

Geared to children
of all ages

Free Admission

Gabriele Amadori

In collaboration with
Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta

• Milano
• 20 september
• saturday

Teatro degli Arcimboldi
9 p.m.

Philip Glass

Book of Longing

Based on poetry and Images
by Leonard Cohen

Will Erat
Tim Fain
Philip Glass
Tara Hugo
Daniel Keeling
Gail Kruvand
Megan Marolf
Dominique Plaisant
Michael Riesman
Mick Rossi
Wendy Sutter
Andrew Sterman
Vocals and instruments

Michael Riesman, conductor
Leonard Cohen, recorded voice

Christine Jones, set design
Kasia Walicka Maimone, costumes
Scott Zielinski, lights
Susan Marshall, set designer

Produced by Linda Brumbach
for Pomegranate Arts, Inc.

Introduction by Cesare Rimini

Inspired by the poetry of Leonard Cohen, the new work by Philip Glass, Book of Longing, was conceived as a concert for music, voices, words and images.
The work is the result of years of mutual admiration between two of the most famous musicians of their generation, and contains unreleased pieces by Glass inspired by Cohen’ book of the same the title.
Containing poetry and texts created over the past twenty years, including the eight years spent in the Mount Baldy Buddhist monastery, Book of Longing is at once meditative, playful, erotic and provocative.
It spans between long ballads, love songs, autobiographic elements and spiritual meditations.

Commissioned by
LUMINATO FESTIVAL OF ARTS
AND CREATIVITY, TORONTO
Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts
The Barbican Centre, London
Lincoln Center Festival 2007, New York
Stanford Lively Arts,
Stanford University
University of Texas, Austin
Wales Millennium Center, Cardiff
With support from
Ravinia Festival

Assigned Seating € 15 and € 25 buy bonus Intesa San Paolo

Disegno di
Leonard Cohen

With support from

ss

• Milano
• 20 september
• saturday

Palasharp
9 p.m.

Pëtr Il'ic Čajkovskij
Concert in D major
for violin and orchestra op. 35
Symphony no. 5
in E minor op. 64

La Scala Philharmonic
Dmitri Kitajenko, conductor
Sayaka Shoji, violin

Why a concert at Palasharp?
There are delicate and heart-wrenching feelings which, as if by miracle, may be shared by an almost infinite multitude of people; among them are surely those feelings sparked by the music of Čajkovskij.

General Admission € 5 buy
The ticket office opens at 6 p.m.
Admission to the public from 7.30 p.m.

Sayaka Shoji

In collaboration with
Associazione Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala

• Milano
• 20 september
• saturday

Teatro Out Off
11 p.m.

Jóhann Jóhannsson

Electronics and visual performance

Italian Premiere

Jóhann Jóhannsson, piano,
organ and electronics
Ivo Stankov, violin
James Daniel Underwood, violin
Emma Clare Owens, viola
Charlotte Maguirita Rook, cello
Matthias M. D. Hemstock, percussion
and electronics
Magnus Helgason, video

Introduction by
Pierfrancesco Majorino

Extraordinary Icelandic composer and musician Jóhann Jóhannsson is one of the greatest masters on today's international electronic music scene.
With the Apparat Organ Quartet and his three solo albums - Englaborn, Virthulegu Forsetar and the ambitious project for orchestra IBM 1401, A Users' Manual - he has enhchanted listeners throughout the world.
For MITO Jóhann Jóhannsson experiments with new formats, combining electronics, video and refined sonorities in an intense and thrilling musical and visual erformance.
In an Italian premiere, Jóhann Jóhannsson presents material from his latest album Fordlandia, on the 4AD label, set for release in early September 2008.

Assigned Seating € 10 buy

Jóhann Jóhannsson

In collaboration with
UOVO Performing Arts