2018 BAM Next Wave Festival #BAMNextWave

Brooklyn Academy of Music

Adam E. Max, Katy Clark, Chairman of the Board President

William I. Campbell, Joseph V. Melillo, Vice Chairman of the Board Executive Producer

Voyage of Time Directed by Terrence Malick Wordless Music Orchestra

Presented in association with Wordless Music

BAM Howard Gilman Opera House Nov 16 & 17 at 7:30pm

Running time: approx. 1 hour 30 minutes, no intermission

Conducted by Jayce Ogren Live narration Lily James Electronics/orchestration Ricardo Romaneiro

Season Sponsor:

Leadership support for BAM Film Programs provided by The Thompson Family Foundation. Leadership support for music programs at BAM provided by the Baisley Powell Elebash Fund. Support for the Signature Artists Series provided by the Howard Gilman Foundation. Wordless Music Orchestra

VIOLIN FLUTE TUBA Tom Chiu Erin Lesser* John Altieri Daniel Constant Jessica Schmitz Monica Davis Anna Urrey PIANO/KEYBOARD Caitlin Edwards Robert Fleitz Fung Chern Hwei OBOE Conrad Harris* Michelle Farah HARP Pauline Kim Harris** Christa Robinson* Jacqueline Kerrod Josh Henderson Arthur Sato Patti Kilroy PERCUSSION Jessica McJunkins CLARINET Spencer Cohen Courtney Orlando Vasko Dukovski Sae Hashimoto Lavinia Pavlish Bill Kalinkos* Victor Pablo* Gillian Rivers Eileen Mack Britton Powell Ben Russell BASSOON MODULAR SYNTH VIOLA Brad Balliett Qasim Naqvi Tia Allen Nanci Belmont* Caleb Burhans* Monica Ellis SOUND ENGINEER Isabel Hagen Richie Clarke Dana Kelley FRENCH HORN Caitlin Lynch Rachel Drehmann PRODUCER Karen Waltuch Nathan Koci* Ronen Givony Jeff Scott CELLO Kate Sheeran Justin Abrams Cameron West *principal Clara Kennedy **concertmaster Rubin Kodheli TRUMPET Lauren Radnofsky* Kate Amrine Aaron Stokes Andy Kozar Seth Parker Woods Matt Mead* Sam Nester BASS Logan Coale* TROMBONE Florent Ghys Michael Clayville* Chris Johnson James Hirschfeld Eleonore Oppenheim William Lang Alix Tucou

Score compiled and engraved by Conor Brown

Thank you: Terrence & Ecky Malick, Lily James, Nicolas Gonda, Sarah Green, Colton Williamson, Dick Bernstein, Hanan Townshend, Ricardo Romaneiro, Mellissa Hughes, Nancy Smith, Lee Prinz, Billy Lazarus, Jordan Gorelick, and Leo Leite.

This concert is dedicated to the memory of Wordless Music Orchestra member Matt Marks. Wordless Music Chorus

SOPRANO TENOR Amy Goldin Ryland Angel Sarah Hawkey Tomas Cruz Chloe Holgate Paul D’Arcy Mellissa Hughes Andrew Fuchs Linda Jones Matthew Hensrud Jamie Jordan Nick Karageorgiou Nacole Palmer Nicholas Prior Nola Richardson Emerson Sieverts Melanie Russell Michael Steinberger Amaranta Viera Jason Weisinger

ALTO BASS Eric S. Brenner Elijah Blaisdell Alison Cheeseman Jason Eck Hai-Ting Chinn Jeffrey Gavett Patrick Fennig Rob Hansen Wendy Gilles Dominic Inferrera Kristin Gornstein Tim Krol Catherine Hedberg Richard Lippold Kate Maroney Daniel Moore Daniel Moody Steven Moore Kirsten Sollek Peter Stewart Photo: Broad Green Pictures Who’s Who

WORDLESS MUSIC ORCHESTRA is the house the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with the world band of New York’s Wordless Music series, premiere orchestration of William Basinski’s which was founded by non-musician Ronen Disintegration Loop 1.1. In 2013, the orchestra Givony in 2006, and has since presented performed the world premiere live score to the concerts in churches and out of doors, pairing film Beasts of the Southern Wild with director artists from the sound worlds of so-called and composer Benh Zeitlin and Dan Romer, for classical and contemporary music. Comprising an outdoor audience of 7,000 at Prospect Park New York’s most omnivorous young musicians, in Brooklyn; with the legendary Kranky ambient and members of groups such as Alarm Will duo Stars of the Lid; and with John Cale, as part Sound, ACME, and Ensemble Signal, the of the 2012 BAM Next Wave Festival. orchestra presented its first concerts over two sold-out nights in 2008 under conductor In 2014, WMO performed with Jonny Brad Lubman, with the US premiere of Jonny Greenwood at the Big Ears festival in Knoxville, Greenwood’s Popcorn Superhet Receiver, with and in the US live score premiere of Paul the music of Gavin Bryars and John Adams. Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood. Also in 2014, WMO made its Australian debut with In 2009, Arvo Pärt’s Symphony No. 4 had Max Richter at the Sydney Opera House and its New York premiere in two concerts at Melbourne Recital Centre. In 2015—16, the which WMO also played with the Japanese orchestra made its Los Angeles debut with instrumental noise-rock band MONO. These composer/conductor Mica Levi in the US live shows were recorded and released by Temporary premiere of Under the Skin; performed the world Residence as Holy Ground: NYC Live with premiere live score of Paul Thomas Anderson’s the Wordless Music Orchestra. Also in 2009, Punch-Drunk Love (BAM, 2016) with composer WMO recorded with Tyondai Braxton for Central Jon Brion; and reprised its collaboration with Market, the composer’s solo debut on Warp Benh Zeitlin and Dan Romer for an encore of Records, and went on tour to Lincoln Center, the Beasts of the Southern Wild in New Orleans. Library of Congress, and Walker Art Center. In 2010, WMO performed alongside the Hilliard In 2017—18, Wordless Music Orchestra Ensemble and Latvian National Choir as part performed with Spiritualized in New York and of Lincoln Center’s inaugural White Light LA; with John Cale for the 50th anniversary of Festival, in music by Kjartan Sveinsson and The Velvet Underground & Nico, as part of the Jónsi Birgisson of Sigur Rós with Alex Somers; 2017 BAM Next Wave Festival; and world- and at the Guggenheim Museum rotunda in premiere live scores for Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight a collaboration with visual artist Dominique in London and LA; Terrence Malick’s Voyage of Gonzalez-Foerster for Gavin Bryars’ Sinking of Time at the Melbourne Festival; Stanley Kubrick’s the Titanic. Barry Lyndon and Ava DuVernay’s Selma in New York; and Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom On September 11, 2011, WMO performed a Thread in New York (BAM, 2018) and LA. memorial concert for the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks in the Temple of Dendur at Who’s Who

JAYCE OGREN (conductor), with mounting performers striving to engage new listeners success in both symphonic and operatic through exhilarating concerts, innovative artistic repertoire, has established a reputation as one collaborations, and enriching community of the finest young conductors to emerge from partnerships in Philadelphia and beyond— the US in recent seasons. Appearances in 2018 featured staged performances of Peter Maxwell included with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Davies’ Eight Songs for a Mad King at the the Brevard Music Center (NC), and the San Philly Fringe Festival; Steve Mackey’s Slide, in Francisco Symphony conducting Dvorak, Princeton at the Sound Kitchen; and National Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with Adam Sawdust in Brooklyn. Jayce Ogren and Orchestra Golka, and Sibelius’ Second Symphony. Ogren 2001 also presented the Philadelphia premiere and pianist Adam Golka made their San of the complete Yellow Shark by Frank Zappa. Francisco Symphony debuts at the 81st annual Also in Philadelphia, he led the Symphony for Stern Grove Festival with the Beethoven Fourth a Broken Orchestra (December 2017), a work Piano Concerto. written by Pulitzer prize-winning composer David Lang for sounds that only broken instruments Ogren’s 2018/2019 season features can make—some 400 of them found in the performances with the Edmonton Symphony Philadelphia school system. It was played Orchestra with works by Berwald, Verdi, by orchestra professionals, Curtis Institute Korngold, Puccini, Mozart, Beethoven, and and Temple faculty and students, plus school Vaughan Williams, collaborating with mezzo- kids—350 players arranged in teams around the soprano Emily d’Angelo and pianist Joyce Yang, periphery of the 23rd St. Armory, after which the Santa Rosa Symphony with violist Nokuthula instruments were repaired and returned to the Ngwenyama as soloist in Harold in Italy; Dallas schools for future use. Symphony Orchestra, Omaha Symphony Orchestra, and Spokane Symphony Orchestra As an opera conductor, Ogren has led the world with Barber’s Second Essay; and Prokofiev’s premiere of Jack Perla’s Shalimar the Clown with Symphony Concerto and Mussorgsky’s Pictures the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, the US premiere at an Exhibition. Ogren will also offer a Pops! of Rufus Wainwright’s Prima Donna, Britten’s concert with the Portland Symphony Orchestra Turn of the Screw, Mozart’s The Magic Flute, and film evenings conducting the scores to Bernstein’s A Quiet Place, and Rossini’s Mose in Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times (Casa da Egitto, among others. Ogren has also established Musica; Porto, Portugal) and John Williams’ a notable reputation in contemporary music, ET in Oklahoma City’s Civic Center in addition leading the Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris, to Terrence Malick’s Voyage of Time for the projects with ICE (International Contemporary Wordless Music series at BAM. Ensemble) at Lincoln Center, at the Wien Modern Festival, and at Columbia University’s Miller Earlier seasons included return engagements Theater. He has led all-Stravinsky performances at the Colorado Symphony, National Arts with the New York City Ballet and Basil Twist’s Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, and the Dallas, production of The Rite of Spring at Lincoln Indianapolis, and Edmonton Symphonies. Center’s White Light Festival. Ogren’s debuts included the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for Voyage of Time and As a composer, Ogren’s works have been with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, leading performed at the Royal Danish Conservatory the orchestra with film in Bernstein’s West of Music, the Brevard Music Center, and Side Story. the American Choral Directors Association Conference. His Symphonies of Gaia has been Ogren’s numerous appearances with Orchestra performed by ensembles on three continents. 2001—a collective of adventurous, virtuoso Photo: Broad Green Pictures Who’s Who

LILY JAMES (narrator), an in-demand young In 2016 James took on the heralded role British actress who, since graduating from the of Natasha Rostova in War & Peace (BBC) Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2010, for which she received glowing reviews. The has had a succession of iconic stage, screen, and Hollywood Reporter said of her performance; TV roles such as Cinderella, Natasha Rostova, “James takes Natasha believably from nervous and Juliet. teen to radiant young adult.” She was in Pride & Prejudice & Zombies, the quirky re-imagining James was recently seen in the film Mamma of Austen’s classic, playing Elizabeth Bennett. In Mia: Here We Go Again! playing a young Donna, theater she took on the role of Juliet in Kenneth receiving high praise. She also appeared in The Branagh’s acclaimed staging of Shakespeare’s Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Romeo & Juliet. Mike Newell’s adaptation of the bestseller of the same name. James played the role of journalist James’ breakout film role was in Disney’s Juliet Ashton. She will be seen on stage in Ivo award-winning worldwide hit Cinderella, directed van Hove’s upcoming West End production of by Branagh. She was praised for her magical All About Eve, opposite Gillian Anderson. The turn as the Disney icon. The cast included Cate show re-imagines the classic tale of Broadway Blanchett and Richard Madden. backstabbers Eve Harrington (James) and Margo Channing (Anderson). The show debuts at the In 2012, James joined the cast of the award- Noel Coward Theatre in February. She wrapped winning period drama Downton Abbey, in which filming on Danny Boyle’s next untitled project, she played the mischievous Lady Rose for three co-starring Himesh Patel; it is written by Richard series. Other notable films include Wrath of the Curtis and slated to be released in June 2019. Titans, Burnt, and Fast Girls.

Last year in Austin, James shot the indie flick Upon graduating from drama school, she cut Little Woods—the directorial debut from Nia her teeth on stage, most notably in the leading DaCosta, who also wrote the script. James and role of Taylor in the Olivier-nominated production Tessa Thompson play sisters who are driven to of Vernon God Little, directed by Rufus Norris work outside the law to better their lives. The film at the Young Vic Theatre. Her performance as premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival this year Desdemona in Daniel Evans’ stage production of and will have a theatrical release next year. Othello, which also starred Dominic West, was much celebrated with one reviewer stating “We In 2017, James appeared in the award-winning may have a new star actress on our hands… Winston Churchill drama Darkest Hour, in which She left drama school only last year, yet she Gary Oldman played Churchill. She played the practically sweeps all before her.” Prime Minister’s secretary Elizabeth Nel. James starred in Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver (2017) in the role of Deborah, girlfriend of getaway driver Baby, played by Ansel Elgort.

“...a razor-sharp new production... it has lost none of its scabrous power.” —THE TIMES (UK)

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Who’s Who

RICARDO ROMANEIRO (electronics/ Romaneiro’s music has been featured on NPR orchestration), composer and electronic artist, live broadcast from Prospect Park Bandshell as was born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil and part of Celebrate Brooklyn! summer concerts. His moved to the US at an early age. A graduate work has been featured in publications such as of The Juilliard School, Romaneiro’s music The Wall Street Journal, Vice/Creators Project, synthesizes his major musical influences and Esquire, Brooklyn Magazine, Untapped Cities, passions: classical music and electronic music. Vogue, and Edible Manhattan. A recipient of The New York Times described his work as the ASCAP Rudy Perez Songwriting Scholarship, “a blissful and compelling mix of Minimalist- he earned a bachelor’s degree in composition derived rhythmic ecstasy and nightclub beats.” from Manhattan School of Music and a masters His music has been featured, performed, and degree in composition from The Juilliard School. commissioned in an eclectic range of institutions, festivals, and projects such as the Museum The live film and orchestra version of Voyage of Modern Art’s Summergarden Series, New of Time was previously performed with the Juilliard Ensemble, Melbourne Symphony Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Chorus at Orchestra, Metropolis Ensemble, Wordless Hammer Hall, produced by Wordless Music as Music, Ensemble LPR, Nu Deco Ensemble, part of Melbourne Festival. It was orchestrated, ECCE, American Composers Orchestra, Quintet composed and arranged by Romaneiro for of the Americas, Alvin Ailey American Dance 100-piece orchestra and choir with Romaneiro Theater, Colorado Ballet at the Ellie Caulkins performing live electronics. Opera House, and the Sacramento Ballet. romaneiro.com