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...Baker spent five sleepless weeks conceptualizing the concert. He says he cannot control what ring tones people have, or whether all audience members will follow the lighting cues, but he can create spatial relationships by having individual sections respond to different lighting cues. "The premise is chaos versus order," says Baker...
...recent survey - has long struck a chord with fans of innovative classical music. "We've done some pretty wacky things," says executive director Jim Hirsch. "You haven't heard anything until you've heard thirty steel drums banging simultaneously with an orchestra." Hirsch says the Sinfonietta had also hosted concerts with bagpipes, and once featured an Indonesian gamelan orchestra, using gongs and mallet-struck instruments. Two years ago, the Sinfonietta collaborated with alternative rock band Poi Dog Pondering in a "remix and re-invention" of Dvorak's "New World" Symphony. The concert was so popular that the Sinfonietta's coming...
Attendees of the Chicago Sinfonietta's 20th anniversary season performance on Oct. 1 and 2 will be asked to do something unusual: turn on their cell phones. Quirky chimes, song melodies and ring tones will be the concert's opening notes...
...minute tutorial will instruct audience members to follow the red-light and green-light cues for their phones before the concert opens with "Redes," a piece by Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas. Green light means turn your phone on and/or play you ringtone; red means let the orchestra take charge. Chiming in with the Sinfonietta will be two accomplished young musicians: pianist Alexander Kobrin from Moscow, performing Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No.2 in A major, and violinist Melissa White playing Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor...
...steel and pale gray granite, designed by Norman Foster, with stained-glass panels by the artist Brian Clarke. Its art and sculpture were chosen to represent the world's major religions, to underscore the religious tolerance and respect that has been firmly established in a multiethnic country. An opening concert was headlined by legendary Spanish soprano Montserrat Caball?, as if to personify the harmoniousness and opulence Kazakhstan wants to project...