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About the Program DEAR FRIENDS, Welcome to this performance of studied the different dialects found within traditional vestments of the classical one of the ultimate motivic compositions Early Adventures. a close radius of his home in Brno, he tradition - principally speaking, harmonic in musical history. This highly through- was also was obsessed with the melody and formal structures - are more or less connected journey represents a Paul Crewes Rachel Fine heard in everyday speech and made a abandoned, or even subjugated, in favor of remarkable degree compactness of form Artistic Director Managing Director As part of the 30th anniversary fascinating habit of notating the inherent a highly visceral palette that focuses on and character. The motivating ideas celebrations of my company, pitch and rhythm. For the record, any of the psychological underpinning and the behind its inter-connected movements New Adventures, I’m delighted us who think our own English tongue is turbulent narrative of the Kreutzer Sonata. are as evident in the macro view as on a PRESENTS to be revisiting three much flat in mellifluous inflection (as opposed — Nicholas Cords cellular level. Unequivocally heralding the loved pieces that started things to, say, Mandarin), Janácˇek emphatically complex world of his late period, this work off for us back in the early days. declared on his visit to London in 1926 BTT shows Beethoven grappling with personal that the English language was indeed full Colin Jacobsen demons and spiritual callings practically in Watch with Mother, Town and of melody! Straight from the composer’s BTT started off in my mind as an the same breath as moments of incredible mouth! It is through the curious union investigation into and celebration of autumnal warmth and wry humor. From Country and The Infernal Galop, of a folk-inspired musical language - the incredible creative ferment and the severity and gravitas of the first or ‘Early Adventures’ as we’ve which Janácˇek believed to be a universal experimentation of the 1970's/80's movement to the transcendental fugal called them in this Triple Bill, language - and speech-melody, that we downtown New York scene as embodied second movement to the terse scherzo to sees New Adventures return to start to understand the characteristics by the likes of Glenn Branca, Meredith the joyous triumph at the conclusion of A NEW ADVENTURES PRODUCTION its roots as we re-visit some of of Janácˇek’s singular musical voice. Monk, Arthur Russell, John Zorn, the the final movement, Opus 95 makes huge the venues that championed the Velvet Underground, Reich, Glass, the demands of the musician. Indeed, studying company in its early years. Janácˇek first started musing about New York Dolls, Laurie Anderson, this piece forces the musician to come DIRECTED AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY writing a string quartet during his student Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece to grips with emotional juxtapositions Matthew Bourne days in Vienna in the 1880s. But it was Company, to name a few. However, I that have stretched the boundaries of All three pieces in this not until 1923 that the legendary Czech also found myself thinking about John string quartets over different generations. programme were created with String Quartet offered Janácˇek, now Cage and Johann Sebastian Bach. This Despite the difficulties, the piece SET AND COSTUME DESIGN BY a desire to entertain and to 69, the opportunity to compose a string happened in part because a colleague of constantly shines a light in the darkest share some of the music and Lez Brotherston quartet. [Side note: recordings of the mine suggested that Cage was really the corners of the rehearsal, and inevitably cultural icons that I grew up Czech Quartet (known as the Bohemian spiritual father of that whole scene, and brings one face to face with the creative loving. They all mean a great String Quartet prior to 1918) are available I had this thought that he was tapping process itself. Our job as performers is LIGHTING DESIGN BY deal to me both professionally on YouTube. Their recordings of Dvorák into the same elemental stuff that Bach to affirmatively inhabit this world, with and personally, and I can’t and Smetana in particular represent a did–though coming at it perhaps from an all of its joys, challenges, and contrasts. Andrew Murrell lean style of string playing, much more opposite point of view and obviously from wait to share them again with audiences old and new. I hope aligned to 19th century styles, that a very different era. While Cage is known In approaching Beethoven in particular, SOUND DESIGN BY has all but disappeared.] The String as a proponent of chaos, one realizes that having the prior example of past that, for many, this will be an Quartet No. 1, inspired by Leo Tolstoy’s for every musical experiment he made, performers is a luxury. We greatly admire Paul Groothuis exciting opportunity to see how “Kreutzer Sonata”, was composed in a he set up a system of rules and then the pre-World War II performances of the company started out, and short fifteen-day period that October, looked forward to what unfolded within groups like the Capet and Busch String REHEARSAL DIRECTOR for others perhaps a nostalgic and subsequently revised. Janácˇek was that system (though often in extreme quartets (only separated to the time of trip down memory lane if you generally quite fond of the work of Leo and unexpected juxtaposition). When we Beethoven by the generation of their Kerry Biggin were there with us the first time Tolstoy (he visited Russia twice and think of Bach and the cosmic order in teachers), for example. Undoubtedly, Opus around! studied the language), and there are his fugues, there's a similar setting up 95 was a quartet ahead of its time, and REVIVALS STAGED BY ASSOCIATE ARTISIC DIRECTOR numerous other completed works and of parameters that almost has a pre- one has to marvel at the challenges the sketches that reference the great Russian determined quality, but then there's original performers in Beethoven’s circle Etta Murfitt The productions and cast writer. Tolstoy’s Kreutzer Sonata (1889) that same sense of things unfolding in must have had to overcome without the numbers might have got bigger is a gripping novella about a jealous a natural and larger than human way. benefit of a recording or performance CAST over the years, but I’d like husband who murders his wife, who has history. Given the many demands of this Joao Carolino, Reece Causton, Tom Clark, Daniel Collins, to think that desire to make had an affair. In Janácˇek’s words, “I was All this to say that most of the musical work, Beethoven clearly seemed to believe people laugh and cry and to give imagining a poor woman, tormented and material in BTT emanates from a spelling the same as Charles Ives; music is not Paris Fitzpatrick, Sophia Hurdley, Mari Kamata, audiences a great night out at run down, just like the one the Russian of B-A-C-H and C-A-G-E (D), which made for the easy chair! That said, the Jamie Emma Mcdonald, Edwin Ray writer Tolstoy describes in his Kreutzer in and of itself sets up an interesting score will continually require a grand the theatre was there right from Sonata. Beethoven‘s “Kreutzer Sonata” for juxtaposition of tonalities. The BACH scale re-examination by whatever quartet the very beginning. violin and piano, Op. 47, plays a central motif is chromatic and curls in on itself decides to make the journey. And in the COMPANY STAGE MANAGER STAGE CARPENTER LIGHTING ENGINEER role in the unfolding of the disturbing while the CAGE motif has an open and timeless manner of all great music, the Whether you are an old fan Ian Wheatstone Dylan Carpenter Sam Baker story. Beethoven dedicated the work to pentatonic feel. Over the course of world of Beethoven continues to magically or are new to our work this the French violinist Rodolphe Kreutzer. the piece, the two motifs interact in a lift itself above the fray by reinventing evening, thank you for your variety of ways; sometimes contradicting itself and finding evergreen relevance support and for being here This first string quartet of Janácˇek each other, sometimes in harmony and in a fast moving world. Ultimately, by SOUND ENGINEER WARDROBE MISTRESS tonight to help us to celebrate (followed by a second quartet in 1928, the resulting eclectic mix of sections acknowledging both the past and the Matt Early Suzanne Runciman Intimate Letters) is highly compact and may or may not relate to some of present tradition and by engaging in our continuing adventures! terse. It uses a focused motivic and the above mentioned musicians. our own creative study of the material, modal language that very much ties — Colin Jacobsen we strive towards an interpretation Very best wishes, the four movements together, almost which is personal to us and hopefully MAY 17-21, 2018 Matthew Bourne creating the effect of taking in the Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95 'Serioso' to all of you, our beloved audience. Bram Goldsmith Theater chapters of a novel or the episodes of a Ludwig van Beethoven —Nicholas Cords serial television series. Much in keeping Sharing the distinction with The Art of Running time: 2 hours and 10 minutes including two 15-minute intermissions with the rest of Janácˇek’s output, the Fugue, Beethoven's Opus 95 is undoubtedly The May 17 performance is sponsored by MATT Construction. P20 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE About the Artists About the Artists JOÃO CAROLINO trained in Matthew Bournes Swan Lake 3D, The Car Man and PARIS FITZPATRICK between 9-16 and Adult Ballet ‘Barre Club’.