How does one celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of
the most notorious short film ever made—Luis
Buñuel and Salvador
Dalí's Un Chien Andalou? By watching it four times,
of course, with live music: four new soundtracks by a diverse
group of composers, creating entirely individual homages to
this fascinating, outrageous, and unique work of cinematic
surrealism.
For Quatre Chiens, Sospeso chose four composers,
each representing a different aesthetic in contemporary music,
three of which are writing new works especially for this occasion.
With this program, the Ensemble Sospeso and the Film Society
of Lincoln Center follow their acclaimed 2003 collaboration,
the world premiere of gifted young French composer
Bruno Mantovani’s new music to
Allan Dwan’s silent masterpiece East Side, West Side.