Self-Portraits 1964, Unfinished
Martin Bresnick, world premiere
w/ PRISM Quartet
Friday, March 24 @ 7pm
Church of the Holy Trinity, Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia
co-presented by Penn Live Arts
Our souls are like
Those orphans whose
Unwedded mothers
Die in bearing them:The secret of
Our paternity
Lies in their grave, and
We must there to learn it.– 1. Herman Melville, Moby Dick
2. James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
in Martin Bresnick’s Self-Portraits 1964, Unfinished
The philosophical observations of Melville, Joyce, Hardy, and Hopkins come together in Martin Bresnick’s Cento (a new poem, constructed of previously existing poems). The result is a tumultuous journey of questioning, whimsy, and stoicism. Not only one of the most renowned composers of our time, Martin is also one of the most significant teachers of composition, numbering as his students many of the ‘household names’ of music today. A reunion with the saxophone quartet PRISM, with which we won our first Grammy.
Photo: French oyster beds