Organization

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Washington National Opera

Conductor

Ángel Gil-Ordoñez

Orchestra

PostClassical Ensemble

Bouncing Off The Walls: Music and Architecture

Washington D.C.

United States

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Terrace Theater

Bouncing Off The Walls: Music and Architecture: Die Weihe des Hauses, op. 124 Beethoven (+4 More)

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The Consecration of the House, op. 124

Sonata pian' e forte

Symphony No. 47 in G major Hob. I:47

Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10

William Tell

Sushant Karmakar

Approved

Music and architecture share a vocabulary and they overlap through analogies and metaphors. Composers “build” symphonies, which are highly structured. And architects dream of buildings that unfold to the senses like music, a seamless flow of experience through time and space. Both forms use terms like ornament, balance and symmetry. But is architecture really “frozen music,” an idea that emerged in the late 18th century when musical forms were becoming longer and more complex? Join PCE for Bouncing off the Walls: Music and Architecture, a concert which explores the complex relation between the two art forms, from music that was specifically written for particular buildings to early 20th-century modernist efforts to reduce both forms to their elemental materials. The program includes an overture by Beethoven written to celebrate a newly remodeled theater and opera house, works by Gabrieli, composed for the mighty Basilica of San Marco in Venice, a symphony by Haydn featuring one of the most complicated “architectural” forms ever composed, a short but volcanic work by Anton Webern and a classic overture by Rossini, reassembled to maximize the acoustic possibilities of the Kennedy Center Terrace Theatre.

English

Bouncing Off The Walls: Music and Architecture by Beethoven, Gabrieli, G., Haydn, Webern, Rossini, From (2023/2023), Conductor Ángel Gil-Ordoñez, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C., United States

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