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The Ensemble Sospeso presents the world premiere of award-winning director Hal Hartley's
newest work, a short film with live music by Louis Andriessen.
The
visceral
minimalism of
celebrated
Dutch
composer
Louis
Andriessen
provides an
essential
link between
the American
'downtown'
scene and
European
postwar
music.
Filmmaker
Hal Hartley's
latest
feature,
Henry Fool,
won him a
best
screenwriting
award at the
1997 Cannes
Film
Festival, and
was greeted
with critical
acclaim as
one of the
best films of
the
year.
The
American
premieres of
these
important
works form a
complement to
the recent
Lincoln
Center
performance
of Writing to
Vermeer,
Andriessen's
operatic
collaboration
with
filmmaker
Peter
Greenaway.
Guest artist
Tomoko Mukaiyama joins the ensemble for the American premiere of Andriessen's epic
Tao, for piano, koto, chamber orchestra and choir, under the direction of
Rand
Steiger. Soprano
Susan Narucki joins Sospeso for an exciting evening of recent music by the celebrated Dutch composer, one of the most provocative musicians of our time.
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