2023-09-22 13:51:46
The GIO Symphonia and the singer and actress Elena Tarrats will premiere at High season a production that connects the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, The Beatles, David Bowie and Philip Glass, establishing a “dialogue” between them. After offering tastes in various settings, the Girona line-up will premiere on October 8 atGirona Auditorium and the following day at the Palau de la Música Catalana the full program of Ticket to ride, which seeks to connect seemingly distant music such as Baroque, pop or minimalist music. “They can coexist and one cannot be understood without the other”, remarks director of the training, Francesc Prat.
In this sense, Prat details that this proposal was born from the “obsession” he felt for Luciano Beriothe avant-garde composer who “he took the pop of the Beatles to make baroque music that sounds like it was composed by Bach»: «this way of establishing connections between the various drawers of the music was a crazy thing that we had to do».
“And if Berio did it with the Beatles, why not also combine the minimalist music of Philip Glass with that of Bowie?”, thinks Prat, who commissioned the brothers Lucas and Tomàs Peire that they covered three pieces by the British singer adapted to the same line-up as those named Beatles Songs by Berio.
“It’s a very strange type of formation, growing the repertoire with some Bowie Songs might make more people dare to do it”, says Prat.
Thus, the program includes the three movements of the Concert de Brandenburg of Bach and the songs Michelle (I i II), Ticket to ride i Yesterday by The Beatles arranged by Berio; Space Odity, Live on Mars i Heroes by David Bowie based on the Peires version and the composition Music in similar motion Philip Glass.
Tarrats will be in charge of voicing to the creations that the GIO will perform with a formation of four violins, two violas, a cello, a double bass, a harp, a harpsichord, a flute, a clarinet, an oboe and a trumpet.
The premiere of Ticket to ride prop·the the three-way collaboration between the orchestra, the Girona Auditorium and Temporada Altawhich has already borne fruit such as the concert with Ute Lemper last year or Mysteries of the momentwith Xavier Sabata.
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The director of the Auditorium, David Ibáñez, celebrates the consolidation of the relationship between the orchestra and the equipment under the label Compromís Creació, which is also translating into collaborations in the social sphere.
For his part, the director of Temporada Alta, Salvador Sunyer, claims that the administrations must take “one more step” in recognizing the Girona orchestra as “another national orchestra”.
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