Please note, this is an outdoor performance. The scheduled performance is Saturday June 13, 7:00pm with a rain date of Sunday June 14, 7:00pm
The Arcana New Music Ensemble is excited to perform music of Pauline Oliveros at Stoneleigh: a natural garden. Pauline Oliveros’ (1932-2016) life as a composer, performer and humanitarian was about opening her own and others’ sensibilities to the universe and facets of sounds. Her career spanned fifty years of boundary dissolving music making. In the ’50s she was part of a circle of iconoclastic composers, artists, poets gathered together in San Francisco. In the 1960’s she influenced American music profoundly through her work with improvisation, meditation, electronic music, myth and ritual.
PROGRAM
The Well
The Gentle
MUSICIANS
Molly Germer, violin
Carlos Santiago, violin
Alyssa Almeida, cello
Tessa Ellis, trumpet
Jay Krush, tuba
Nicholas Handahl, flute
Andy Thierauf, percussion
NOTES
Written between 1982-1983 and commissioned by Philadelphia’s Relâche Ensemble, The Well and The Gentle are two of Oliveros’ Sonic Meditations – text-based, intuitive pieces rooted in listening with minimal instructions.
The performance will take place at the pool house, an outdoor space in the heart of Stoneleigh’s bucolic campus (seating provided). The garden will open at 5:30 for audience members to come early and enjoy the grounds. Feel free to bring a blanket and picnic!
Ticketing link will be available soon
$30 – Natural Lands member ticket
$40 – Non-member ticket
$20 – Young Adult ticket (30 and under)
$10 ACCESS ticket
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Pauline Oliveros’ (1932-2016) life as a composer, performer and humanitarian was about opening her own and others’ sensibilities to the universe and facets of sounds. Her career spanned fifty years of boundary dissolving music making. In the ’50s she was part of a circle of iconoclastic composers, artists, poets gathered together in San Francisco. In the 1960’s she influenced American music profoundly through her work with improvisation, meditation, electronic music, myth and ritual.
She was the recipient of four Honorary Doctorates and among her many recent awards were the William Schuman Award for Lifetime Achievement, Columbia University, New York, NY,The Giga-Hertz-Award for Lifetime Achievement in Electronic Music from ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany and The John Cage award from from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts.
Oliveros was Distinguished Research Professor of Music at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, and Darius Milhaud Artist-in-Residence at Mills College. She founded “Deep Listening®,” which came from her childhood fascination with sounds and from her works in concert music with composition, improvisation and electro-acoustics. She described Deep Listening as a way of listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening includes the sounds of daily life, of nature, of one’s own thoughts as well as musical sounds.
“Deep Listening is my life practice,” Oliveros explained, simply. Oliveros founded Deep Listening Institute, formerly Pauline Oliveros Foundation, now the Center For Deep Listening at Rensselaer, Troy, NY. Her creative work is currently disseminated through The Pauline Oliveros Trust and the Ministry of Maåt, Inc.
This concert is supported in part by the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia
