WILD SHORE & MIVOS STRING QUARTET AT THE ANCHORAGE MUSEUM
February 27-March 12 The Anchorage Museum
The highly-acclaimed MIVOS string quartet, which tours worldwide, will take up residence in the Museum, and offer performances in the galleries and special multimedia performances in the planetarium, celebrating contemporary string quartet music about the Circumpolar North by composers from Iceland, Denmark, Finland, and Russia, alongside visuals curated by Michael Walsh and crafted by Ryan Anderson.
The Circumpolar String Quartet was conceived and curated by Conrad Winslow, Homer-raised and NYC-based artistic director of Wild Shore New Music, an Alaskan presenting organization dedicated to new classical music by living composers.
EVENT SCHEDULE
Friday 3 March — Performance in the office of Michael Walsh during Fur Rondy broadcast on the plaza for passersby at 7:30PM
Tuesday 7 March — Pop-up Concert 1 in a stairwell
Wednesday 8 March — Pop-up Concert 2 in the museum
Thursday 9 March — Pop-up Concert 3 in the museum
Friday 10 March — Planetarium Shows at 7PM & 8PM
Saturday 11 March — Closing Gala Matinee in the Chugach gallery at 3PM
RESIDENCY DESCRIPTION
Do northern composers have a particular sound? Is it related to their environment? Their music has been described with such qualities as emotional restraint, manic extremes, and a vital lyrical vein buried just beneath the surface.
Winslow and MIVOS have selected music from six regions north of the 49th parallel (Finland, Russia, Iceland, and Denmark) to offer possible answers to these questions. By presenting music from these locations in the Anchorage Museum, listeners can connect their experiences of life in Alaska to the rhythms, sonorities, and structures of circumpolar music.
Ryan Anderson will create and curate visuals to accompany Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen’s crystalline String Quartet No. 4 (2012) which alludes to the small-scale components of the large-scale beauty of a frozen landscape. Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s Sept Papillons (Seven Butterflies) explores fragile and ephemeral musical qualities in a collection of miniatures for solo cello. Robert Honstein’s Arctic (2013) was created in response to Chris McCaw’s Sunburn photographs, which viscerally reveal the precise path of the Northern sun in by searing it through photographic paper. Honstein’s musical diptych response to the photographs swings from a manic summer mood to introspective winter stillness. Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina’s String Quartet No. 4 (1993) explores notions of artifice and reality by pitching the players against pre-recorded electronic sounds and uncanny acoustic sounds of a plastic ball bouncing on strings. These juxtapositions may put one in mind of the reality of northern outdoor extremes and the artificial environments that sustain life in the winter.
February 27-March 12 The Anchorage Museum
The highly-acclaimed MIVOS string quartet, which tours worldwide, will take up residence in the Museum, and offer performances in the galleries and special multimedia performances in the planetarium, celebrating contemporary string quartet music about the Circumpolar North by composers from Iceland, Denmark, Finland, and Russia, alongside visuals curated by Michael Walsh and crafted by Ryan Anderson.
The Circumpolar String Quartet was conceived and curated by Conrad Winslow, Homer-raised and NYC-based artistic director of Wild Shore New Music, an Alaskan presenting organization dedicated to new classical music by living composers.
EVENT SCHEDULE
Friday 3 March — Performance in the office of Michael Walsh during Fur Rondy broadcast on the plaza for passersby at 7:30PM
Tuesday 7 March — Pop-up Concert 1 in a stairwell
Wednesday 8 March — Pop-up Concert 2 in the museum
Thursday 9 March — Pop-up Concert 3 in the museum
Friday 10 March — Planetarium Shows at 7PM & 8PM
Saturday 11 March — Closing Gala Matinee in the Chugach gallery at 3PM
RESIDENCY DESCRIPTION
Do northern composers have a particular sound? Is it related to their environment? Their music has been described with such qualities as emotional restraint, manic extremes, and a vital lyrical vein buried just beneath the surface.
Winslow and MIVOS have selected music from six regions north of the 49th parallel (Finland, Russia, Iceland, and Denmark) to offer possible answers to these questions. By presenting music from these locations in the Anchorage Museum, listeners can connect their experiences of life in Alaska to the rhythms, sonorities, and structures of circumpolar music.
Ryan Anderson will create and curate visuals to accompany Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen’s crystalline String Quartet No. 4 (2012) which alludes to the small-scale components of the large-scale beauty of a frozen landscape. Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s Sept Papillons (Seven Butterflies) explores fragile and ephemeral musical qualities in a collection of miniatures for solo cello. Robert Honstein’s Arctic (2013) was created in response to Chris McCaw’s Sunburn photographs, which viscerally reveal the precise path of the Northern sun in by searing it through photographic paper. Honstein’s musical diptych response to the photographs swings from a manic summer mood to introspective winter stillness. Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina’s String Quartet No. 4 (1993) explores notions of artifice and reality by pitching the players against pre-recorded electronic sounds and uncanny acoustic sounds of a plastic ball bouncing on strings. These juxtapositions may put one in mind of the reality of northern outdoor extremes and the artificial environments that sustain life in the winter.
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