Ergodos Festival MMX
2-3 April 2010
Project Arts Centre, Dublin
The Ergodos Festival MMX is all about optimism. The industry of men and women – their ability to make something – is an essentially positive force. Never before has there been both the necessity and opportunity to imagine again how something is done. The orchestra, that is a group of musicians working together, represents for us a microcosm of this potential. The soloist, too, is meaningful, simply for persevering alone.
‘One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.’ These words are millennia old, but they thread this festival, framing our first concert and permeating our second. Another Generation connects two distant ages, Baroque and modern. It finds roots in tradition, yet embraces a vision of new possibility. The Sun Also Rises is a work of film and music whose characters find strength in nostalgia, love and the eternity of nature, despite their desolation.
Even adversity is a source of optimism, perhaps optimism in its most sincere form. We believe that, in spite of the hardships of our time, there is much to celebrate, much that is beautiful, much to give us hope, and much to be done.
Garrett Sholdice
Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Spring, MMX
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Friday, 2 April 2010. 8pm
Another Generation
Project Arts Centre, 39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
Tickets €15/10
> Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach – Ich Ruf’ zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ
John Cage – Five
Simon O’Connor – Blue
Jonathan Nangle – My Heart Stopped a Thousand Beats
Garrett Sholdice – Chorales for James Tenney
Alexander Harker – Fluence*
> Ergodos Orchestra
Ioana Petcu-Colan (violin)
Cora Venus Lunny (viola)
Kate Ellis (cello)
Jonathan Sage (clarinet)
Izumi Kimura (piano)
Musical Director Garrett Sholdice
* Commissioned with funds from the Arts Council / An Chomairle Ealaíon
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Saturday, 3 April 2010. 8pm
The Sun Also Rises
Project Arts Centre, 39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
Tickets €15/10
A work for film and music by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and David Tynan. Two individuals overcome their desolation through memory, love and the eternity of nature.
> Ergodos Orchestra
Ioana Petcu-Colan (violin)
Kate Ellis (cello)
Paul G. Smyth (piano)
> Ergodos Voices
Peyee Chen (soprano)
Michelle O’Rourke (mezzo-soprano)
Robin Bier (alto)
Musical Director Garrett Sholdice
Concept Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Music Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Screenplay Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and David Tynan
Director David Tynan
Cinematographer Stevie Russell
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