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VIJAY IYER: Joseph V BAM 2014 Next Wave Festival #MusicofTransformation Brooklyn Academy of Music Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board William I. Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board Adam E. Max, Vice Chairman of the Board Karen Brooks Hopkins, President VIJAY IYER: Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer Music of Transformation BAM Harvey Theater Dec 18—20 at 7:30pm Running time: one hour and 50 minutes, including intermission Work for Solo Piano (World Premiere) Commissioned by BAM for the 2014 Next Wave Festival Mutations I-X For string quartet, piano, and electronics RADHE RADHE: Rites of Holi (NY Premiere) Music by Vijay Iyer Season Sponsor: Film by Prashant Bhargava International Contemporary Ensemble Conducted by Steven Schick Time Warner is the BAM 2014 Next Wave Festival Sponsor Featuring Tyshawn Sorey, Miranda Cuckson, Michi Wiancko Viacom is the BAM 2014 Music Sponsor Leadership support for music at BAM provided by: Frances Bermanzohn & Alan Roseman Pablo J. Salame The Steinberg Screen at the BAM Harvey Theater is made possible by The Joseph S. and Diane H. Steinberg Charitable Trust Vijay Iyer Work for Solo Piano (World Premiere) Piano Vijay Iyer Mutations I—X For string quartet, piano, and electronics Piano, electronics Vijay Iyer Violin Miranda Cuckson Violin Michi Wiancko Viola Kyle Armbrust Cello Kivie Cahn-Lipman Mutation I: Air Mutation II: Rise Mutation III: Canon Mutation IV: Chain Mutation V: Automata Mutation VI: Waves Mutation VII: Kernel Mutation VIII: Clade Mutation IX: Descent Mutation X: Time Mutations are incremental, stochastic changes in genetic material—the noise in our genes. Evolution is not an efficient, goal-directed process of absolute “betterment” of a species; rather, it is a contin- gent, dynamic, noisy interaction between a species and innumerable competing, fluctuating environ- mental factors—a situated, ecosystem-wide improvisation. Mutations I-X, a suite for string quartet, piano, and electronics, was first performed in 2005. It com- bines notated passages, structured improvisations, and electronic sounds created from samples of the players. A mutation process drives each of the 10 episodes. In some sections, minute variations or fluctuations in a recurring figure ultimately elicit a structural transformation; in other movements, real-time acts governed by competing directives yield a emergent, spontaneous order. These 10 coexisting entities are linked either genetically or by a kind of symbiosis. As all of this music unfolds, our intent—as players and observers—is to place ourselves fully in the moment with sound. Thank you for listening. —Vijay Iyer © 2005 Schott Music Corporation, New York Commissioned by Ethel’s Foundation For The Arts with funding from The Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust Radhe Radhe. Photo: Craig Marsden / Prashant Bhargava Vijay Iyer RADHE RADHE: Rites of Holi Additional cinematography (India) Prashant Bhargava Music by Vijay Iyer Creative producer (India) Anjali Panjabi Film directed, edited and designed by Art direction & Assistant director (India) Prashant Bhargava Sujata Sharma Virk International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) Creative producer (Radha Shoot) Conducted by Steven Schick Nikhil Melnechuk Executive Producer Stephen Cohen for Director of photography (Radha Shoot) Jay Silver Music + Art Production design (Radha Shoot) Mimi Bai Art director (Radha Shoot) Raoul Anchando Featuring Anna George as Radha Costume and styling (Radha Shoot) Appearances by Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Sheena Sood Beatrice Ordeix Make-Up (Radha Shoot) Rebecca Casciano Director of Photography Craig Marsden Colorist Blase Theodore, Contact Di Piano Vijay Iyer All compositions ©2013-2014 Schott Music Violin Michi Wiancko Corporation, New York Viola Miranda Cuckson Percussion, drum set Tyshawn Sorey RADHE RADHE: Rites of Holi Created for and commissioned by Carolina International Contemporary Ensemble Performing Arts at the University of North Piano Cory Smythe Carolina at Chapel Hill. Flute Alice Teyssier Clarinet, Bass clarinet Joshua Rubin Additional commissioning funds were provided Bassoon, contrabassoon Rebekah Heller by the Sally & William A. Rutter Endowment Trumpet Brandon Ridenour for the Performing Arts at CAP UCLA and The Violin Jennifer Curtis Strathmore Hall Foundation. Viola Kyle Armbrust Cello Kivie Cahn-Lipman Vijay Iyer is a Steinway artist and uses Ableton Bass Brian Ellingsen Live software. He records for ECM Records. Percussion Ross Karre Live sound engineer Levy Lorenzo Video engineer Sven Furberg Lighting designer Rus Snelling Associate lighting designer Michael Mauren Artists’ Statement Holi is known around the world as a joyful, In March, 2011, Prashant and his film crew chaotic, and colorful celebration of springtime in traveled to Mathura and the surrounding region, India. To respond to Stravinsky’s own famously where Holi celebrations last not one day and chaotic work about springtime, we were intrigued night, but eight. The cameras captured members by the possible connection with Holi. This of a community in the heightened throes of festival provides an occasion to reconsider the transformation, turning the seasons of their own aspects of ritual and transformation represented lives. Temples fill with devotees, dancing without in Le Sacre du Printemps. inhibition, pushing and shoving to receive blessings. Gangs of teenagers loiter on corners In early conversations, we realized that we with buckets of colorful liquid and powder were interested less in an artistic fantasy of waiting to douse those who pass by. Men, high pagan sacrifice than in the lived and felt reality on intoxicating spirits, make a pilgrimage to of individuals on the brink of change: the Radha’s village dressed in vibrant garb from the significance of myth in earthly life as a living region of Krishna’s playground and equipped heritage. Our attention turned to the Braj region with ceremonial shields. As the men boisterously of Uttar Pradesh, India, the mythical home taunt with sexually provocative chants, women of Krishna, the Hindu deity whose youthful await armed with long sticks ready to beat them. flirtations with his beloved Radha (or fondly Purging fires, expressions of devoutness, and Radhe) and her friends form one of the narratives feats of austerity offer a nighttime counterpoint to for the holiday. According to one story, the the bawdy daytime revels. young, dark-skinned god, annoyed that Radha was so fair, sneaks up on her and her friends, RADHE RADHE: Rites of Holi is a journey of surprising the girls with showers of colored devotion for the goddess Radha. In this project, powder, perhaps evening the score. we answer back to the Sacre score and ballet with a new work for chamber ensemble and Whether a playful strategy for overcoming film. International Contemporary Ensemble racial difference, or a moment of interplay of performs a suite for three winds, three strings, gender and power, or simply the enactment of a two percussionists, two pianos, and electronics, youthful fantasy, this particular impulsive act is in live counterpoint with cinematic episodes now the central, cathartic ritual of Holi. On that compiled from the Holi footage. The result is day everyone becomes Krishna and Radha; all also a ballet of sorts: a performative encounter participants throw color and get color thrown at between live music and film, between them. A pulsing desire to unite with the goddess lived experience and myth, the self and the sends a city into a feverish state of spinning and transformed self, winter and spring. yearning. Everyone enters a state of uninhibited, ecstatic freedom that remains hidden for the rest —Vijay Iyer & Prashant Bhargava of the year. Who’s Who VIJAY IYER (composer) MUSIC Grammy-nominated composer-pianist Vijay Iyer (pronounced “VID-jay EYE-yer”) was described INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY by Pitchfork as “one of the most interesting ENSEMBLE and vital young pianists in jazz today,” by Los The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) Angeles Weekly as “a boundless and deeply is dedicated to reshaping the way music is cre- important young star,” and by Minnesota Public ated and experienced. With a modular makeup Radio as “an American treasure.” He was of 33 leading instrumentalists performing in recently named DownBeat’s 2014 Pianist of the forces ranging from solos to large ensembles, ICE Year, a 2013 MacArthur Fellow, and a 2012 functions as performer, presenter, and educator, Doris Duke Performing Artist. Iyer received an advancing the music of our time by develop- unprecedented “quintuple crown” in the 2012 ing innovative new works and new strategies DownBeat International Critics’ Poll (winning for audience engagement. Since its founding in Jazz Artist, Pianist, Jazz Album, and Jazz Group 2001, ICE has premiered more than 500 com- of the Year, and Rising Star Composer), a “qua- positions around the world. ICE was ensemble- druple crown” in the JazzTimes extended critics’ in-residence at the Museum of Contemporary poll (winning Artist, Acoustic/Mainstream Group, Art Chicago through 2013. The ICE musicians Pianist, and Album of the Year), the Pianist of the also served as artists-in-residence at the Mostly Year Awards for both 2012 and 2013 from Jazz Mozart Festival of Lincoln Center through 2013, Journalists Association, and the 2013 ECHO curating and performing chamber music pro- Award (the “German Grammy”) for best inter- grams that juxtapose new and old music. Recent national pianist. In March 2014, Iyer released and upcoming highlights include headline Mutations, his “spectacular
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