Lori Freedman and Quasar Saxophone Quartet
Lori Freedman and Quasar Saxophone Quartet
Featuring guest artist Fred Frith
Lori Freedman and Quasar Saxophone Quartet
Featuring guest artist Fred Frith
“Freedman is an intensely curious musical animal… who acknowledges no boundaries for what her instrument and her music can do.”—The Globe & Mail (Toronto)
“Quasar are poets as much as virtuosos of their instruments.”—La Presse (Montreal)
Boasting five of North America’s most adventurous exponents of new music for woodwinds, this double bill unites, for the first time, livewire clarinet soloist Lori Freedman with Quasar’s stellar quartet of saxophone virtuosos —Marie-Chantal Leclair, Mathieu Leclair, André Leroux and Jean-Marc Bouchard. Freedman opens both sets with works from her touring solo program by Richard Barrett and Raphaël Cendo—and teams up with Quasar for her own composition, No Man’s Clan (1996/2015). Quasar plays a work by Pierre-Alexandre Tremblay before a rousing finale with Freedman, performing Bouchard’s Le Cri des oiseaux fous (2012) and Fred Frith’s The Big Picture (2012), with a special guest appearance by the composer himself, on guitar.
Program:
Richard Barrett: Interference (2000)
for contrabass clarinet
Lori Freedman: No Man’s Clan (1996, rev. 2015)
for saxophone quartet and bass clarinet
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: Les pâleurs de la lune (2014)
for saxophone quartet and live electronics
Intermission
Raphaël Cendo: Décombres (2011)
for contrabass clarinet and live electronics
Jean-Marc Bouchard: Le Cri des oiseaux fous (2012)
for saxophone quartet, soloist-improviser and live electronics
I Premier Chant
II De l’aube à midi…
III Jeu d’écho
IV Les temps individuels ne se croisent jamais.
V La folie est une pente glissante
VI Le dernier cri
Fred Frith: Big Picture (2000)
for saxophone quartet and two improvising soloists
Date/Time | G | M/ST | CA |
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WED 2/24 8:30 pm | $20 | $16 | $10 |
G - General Audience
M - REDCAT Members
ST - Students
CA - CalArts Students/Faculty/Staff