A harmonious blend of music + film: November residency with Alicia Svigals, Donald Sosin
A cine-concert is a unique experience where a silent film comes to life with live music, all composed and performed by Svigals and Sosin. The Man Without A Worldwill be held Thursday, Nov. 9, at 6:30 p.m. at the Dairy Arts Center.泭
The residency includes two additional public events:
- Tuesday, Nov. 7, 7:30 p.m.: Community klezmer workshop with Svigals at Congregation Har HaShem.
- Wednesday, Nov. 8, 7:30 p.m.: will present Svigals and Sosin on a program including two of Svigals works arranged by composition alumnus Max Wolpert, and featuring an ensemble of CU Boulder string players directed by graduate student Enion Pelta-Tiller and more.
As part of their residency, Svigals and Sosin will further present lectures, demonstrations and workshops for our string studios and composition seminar, and the Music in Jewish Cultures and Musical Styles & Ideas courses.
Svigals is returning to Boulder following several previous visits, including a 2017 screening of the silent film The Yellow Ticket with live music composed and performed by herself and pianist Marily Lerner; and the 2019 Archive Transformed residency, which included performances with Associate Professor of Music Theory Yonatan Malin and jazz pianist Uli Geissendoerfer, led by the late Professor of History and Jewish Studies David Shneer.
Violinist/composer Svigals is the worlds leading klezmer fiddler and a founder of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics. She has performed with and written for violinist Itzhak Perlman and has worked with the Kronos Quartet, playwrights Tony Kushner and Eve Ensler, poet Allen Ginsburg, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, Debbie Friedman and Chava Albershteyn. Her newest CDBeregovski Suite: Klezmer Reimagined with jazz pianist Uli Geissendoerferis an original take on long-lost Jewish music from Ukraine.
Pianist/composer Sosin received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Denver Silent Film Festival and the Best Original Film Score award from the 2022 Mystic Film Festival. He has performed his scores for silent filmsoften with his wife, singer/percussionist Joanna Seatonat Lincoln Center, MoMA, BAM and the National Gallery; and at major film festivals in New York, San Francisco, Telluride, Hollywood, Yorkshire, Pordenone, Bologna, Shanghai, Bangkok, Berlin, Vienna, Moscow and Jecheon, South Korea as well as many college campuses. Sosin has worked with Alexander Payne, Isabella Rossellini, Dick Hyman, Jonathan Tunick, Comden and Green, Martin Charnin, Mitch Leigh and Cy Coleman, and has played for Mikhael Baryshnikov, Mary Travers, Marni Nixon, Howie Mandel, Geula Gill and others.泭
Supported by the Roser Visiting Artist Program and the Sunrise Foundation for Education and the Arts.