Lucerne Festival: Boulez & young composers

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Instead of works, Pierre Boulez composed networks. “For me, a musical idea is like a seed: you plant it in a certain soil and suddenly it multiplies like a weed,” he once remarked. When Boulez weaves a delicate fabric of gentle trills, quivering tremolos, and sparkling arpeggios in Dérive 1, he draws on the same six-note sequence that underlies two other scores: Messagesquisse and Répons. To mark the occasion of Boulez’s 100th birthday, we will continue weaving these threads into the present: four composers have been asked to write new ensemble works paying tribute to the celebrated artist. The fifth world premiere presented in this concert will be by our composer-in-residence Marco Stroppa, who worked closely with Boulez at IRCAM in Paris. Stroppa juxtaposes the accordion with an “electro-acoustic totem”: a tower of loudspeakers that endows the otherwise intangible electronic sound with an almost human presence. Ensemble of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra  Participants in the « Contemporary Conducting » Program conductors Monica Gil Giraldo IRCAM electronics Luca Bagnoli IRCAM sound diffusion Marco Stroppa far and wee for electro-acoustic totem, world premiere, commissioned by Lucerne Festival with support from the Fondation Pierre Boulez Pierre Boulez Dérive 1 for six instruments Alyssa Regent Ophélia for ensemble, world premiere, commissioned by Lucerne Festival with support from the Fondation Pierre Boulez Wei-Chieh Lin Impulse. Hommage à Pierre Boulez for ensemble, world premiere, commissioned by Lucerne Festival with support from the Fondation Pierre Boulez Charles Kwong Mnemosynic Moments for ensemble, world premiere, commissioned by Lucerne Festival with support from the Fondation Pierre Boulez Piyawat Louilarpprasert Dial-a-Boulez for ensemble, world premiere, commissioned by Lucerne Festival with support from the Fondation Pierre Boulez

Instead of works, Pierre Boulez composed networks. “For me, a musical idea is like a seed: you plant it in a certain soil and suddenly it multiplies like a weed,” he once remarked. When Boulez weaves a delicate fabric of gentle trills, quivering tremolos, and sparkling arpeggios in Dérive 1, he draws on the same six-note sequence that underlies two other scores: Messagesquisse and Répons. To mark the occasion of Boulez’s 100th birthday, we will continue weaving these threads into the present: four composers have been asked to write new ensemble works paying tribute to the celebrated artist. The fifth world premiere presented in this concert will be by our composer-in-residence Marco Stroppa, who worked closely with Boulez at IRCAM in Paris. Stroppa juxtaposes the accordion with an “electro-acoustic totem”: a tower of loudspeakers that endows the otherwise intangible electronic sound with an almost human presence.

Ensemble of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra
Participants in the « Contemporary Conducting » Program conductors
Monica Gil Giraldo IRCAM electronics
Luca Bagnoli IRCAM sound diffusion

Marco Stroppa far and wee for electro-acoustic totem, world premiere, commissioned by Lucerne Festival with support from the Fondation Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez Dérive 1 for six instruments
Alyssa Regent Ophélia for ensemble, world premiere, commissioned by Lucerne Festival with support from the Fondation Pierre Boulez
Wei-Chieh Lin Impulse. Hommage à Pierre Boulez for ensemble, world premiere, commissioned by Lucerne Festival with support from the Fondation Pierre Boulez
Charles Kwong Mnemosynic Moments for ensemble, world premiere, commissioned by Lucerne Festival with support from the Fondation Pierre Boulez
Piyawat Louilarpprasert Dial-a-Boulez for ensemble, world premiere, commissioned by Lucerne Festival with support from the Fondation Pierre Boulez

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