UNHINGED
Video credit: Sharon Torello
Watch UNHINGED right here! Adjust resolution quality by clicking on the gear at the bottom of the video window. This performance premiered online as a Facebook Watch Party on the Barnes Foundation Facebook Page to connect our musicians to audiences during the Coronavirus pandemic.
with the Barnes Foundation
Join us for a free entertaining, eclectic evening of classical music by contemporary composers! Tune in online for UNHINGED, the first video-only performance by Orchestra 2001, featuring musicians playing from their own homes and other remote locations—making beautiful music together, while practicing social distancing.
UNHINGED is inspired by Dr. Albert Barnes’s ensembles—his unconventional groupings of impressionist, modernist, African, Asian, ancient, and medieval art alongside wrought-iron door hinges and other metalwork—and even includes passages of percussion played on door hinges.
PROGRAM:
UNHINGED
First Friday at the Barnes Foundation
now “Socially Distanced”
Friday, April 3, 6:00 - 7:30 pm
INTRODUCTION
John Luther Adams
Inuksuit (Philadelphia premiere – excerpt)
Orchestra 2001
(Grounds of the Barnes, recorded in April 2017)
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PART I
(2:05 / 1:21:21)
Arthur Honegger
Danse de la chèvre (Dance of the Goat)
David DiGiacobbe, flute
George Crumb
The Fiddler (Marc Chagall)
(from Metamorphoses, Book I)
Marcantonio Barone, piano
Layale Chaker
Cadenza for Solo Viola
Hannah Nicholas, viola
Zach Zubow
Hiking the Cascade Creek
Andy Thierauf, kitchen percussion
Claude Debussy
Syrinx
Julietta Curenton, flute
Leonard Bernstein
Elegy for Mippy II
Robert Gale, trombone
George Enescu
Ménétrier from Impressions of Childhood
Min-Young Kim, violin
Andy Akiho
Stop Speaking
Phillip O’Banion, snare drum
(Digital playback from MacBook Pro, Microsoft Word)
Mark Summer
Julie-O
Ezgi Yargici, cello
(video recorded at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2019)
INTERMISSION DISCUSSION
(36:30 / 1:21:21)
Dr. Barnes’ “ensembles”
Bill Perthes, Bernard C. Watson Director of Adult Education
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PART II
(47:34 / 1:21:21)
Andy Thierauf and Sean Thomas Boyt
Hand at the Museum
Andy Thierauf, hinge percussion (unseen)
Sean Thomas Boyt, hand choreography (unseen)
Sergei Prokofiev
Sonata for Solo Violin, I. Moderato
Luigi Mazzocchi, violin
Sergei Prokofiev
March (from The Love for Three Oranges)
Ulrich Böckheler, cello
Tan Dun
Staccato Beans (from Eight Watercolors)
Rong Tan, harp
Olivier Messiaen
Appel Interstellaire (Interstellar Call)
Todd Williams, horn
Anthony Di Bartolo
1-Minute Improv with Tape Loop
Anthony Di Bartolo, percussion
Francis Poulenc
Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, III. Allegro
Doris Hall-Gulati, clarinet
Michael Sheadel, invisible piano (pre-recorded)
Giacinto Scelsi
Four Pieces, I
Tessa Ellis, trumpet
Nico Muhly
Take Care (from Hudson Preludes)
Mark Loria, organ
Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul