Manitoba Live Music Event

About

Artists:
Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor

Hilliard Ensemble:
David James, countertenor;
Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor;
Steven Harrold, tenor;
Gordon Jones, baritone;

Phil Kline, electric guitar
Jim Jarmusch, electric guitar
Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, mezzo-soprano
Azure String Quartet
University of Manitoba String Ensemble, Julian Pellicano,conductor
University of Manitoba Singers, Elroy Friesen, director

Repertoire:
Veljo Tormis (EE) Kullervo’s Message
Gavin Bryars (UK) Selections from First Book of Madrigals
Barry Guy (UK) Un Coup de Dés
Toshio Hosakawa (JP) New Work
Phil Kline/Jim Jarmusch (US) Tesla in New York

Hilliard Ensemble performs new music for voices as part of their farewell tour.

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) invented modern electrical distribution and the radio, yet died poor and mentally unstable, with a trove of unpublished inventions he believed would save the world. Long fascinated by the scientist, American film auteur Jarmusch (Down by Law, Broken Flowers) collaborates with innovative American composer Kline. Their fantastical description of Tesla reveals a genius struggling to draw the line between science, magic and illusion.