Sarah Mandelblut

[Francesco Spagnolo <yuval...>]

Dear list members,
I received from my friend C. Marclay the Press release re: Sarah
Mandelblut's music at The Kitchen.
I would be very interested to know from our nyc based friends what do they
know/think about the performance.
Francesco

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ELECTRONIC MUSIC FROM 1963's at THE KITCHEN

Immediate Release
Contact: Isabelle Deconinck
Tel: 212-255-5793

NEW EUROPE'99 @ The Kitchen
New Europe 99 is a citywide festival of performances and humanities events
sponsored by EAB. Running October 11-31, New Europe 99 will present a new
generation of performing artists to New York audiences while examining the
changing face of Europe.

DO CHINESE POSTMEN RING TWICE TOO ?
(U.S. Premiere)
October 26-30 [Tue-Sat] 8 PM, Oct 30 [Sat] 3 PM, $20
Oct 28 Post-performance Discussion

A Sight-and-Sound Tangram by Sarah Mandelblut
Directed by Hans-Peter Litscher
Musical Direction by Christian Marclay

Vocalists: Corin Curschellas, Quing-Lin Cai, Jenny Romaine.
Musicians: Min Xiao-Feng (pipa), Bruno Spoerri (electronics)

Hans-Peter Litscher and Christian Marclay collaborate on the reconstitution
of Israeli composer Sarah Mandelblut's unfinished masterpiece "Do Chinese
Postmen Ring Twice Too?"  Based on parables by Tchuang-Tse and 12 Chinese
and Yiddish proverbs, this sight-and-sound tangram was composed in 1963
while Mandelblut was studying in Paris with Yannis Xenakis and Nadia
Boulanger, and later worked at Hermann Scherchen's Centro Sperimentale
Elettro-acustico in Gravesano (Switzerland).  Thirty-six years later, The
Kitchen is proud to present the U.S. premiere of this newly discovered work,
scored for tapes, voices, pipa, aetherophone, radio wave receiver, tone
regulator, information changer, and projections.

Do Chinese Postmen Ring Twice Too? is a co-production between The Kitchen
and the Swiss Institute. Leadership support for this program has been
provided by Foundation Nicati-De Luze, Fondation Christiane et Jean
Henneberger-Mercier, Fondation SUISA pour la Musique, Max Imgruth, Pro
Helvetia, the Arts Council of Switzerland, the Swiss Federal Office of
Culture, and by Swissair.

October 26-30 [Tue-Sat] 8 PM, Oct 30 [Sat] 3 PM, $20
Oct 28 Post-performance Discussion $20
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