Nice review coming after A.A.Clementi, the concert with Anna Clementi in Udine for Salotto Musicale Fvg on May, 29. Paolo Carradori for Le Salon Musical succeeded in the not easy task of depicting in words the explosive energy of the singer. Indeed it was fun both to play together pieces for voice and piano by Aldo Clementi, Erik Satie, John Cage, Mieko Shiomi and listen to her solo sparkling performances of pieces by Cage, Morton Feldman, Emanuele Casale, Dieter Schnebel, Yoko Ono. You can find the full review here (in italian). Below some extracts translated in English and some nice pics here.
“Also of considerable interest are the two short works stimulated by the Joycian masterpiece Finnegan’s Wake. Toniutti flanks Clementi and on the closed piano used as an almost ancestral percussion she emphasizes, distributes interpunitions, accents behind the voice that, like a sound wave, flows legibly, detachedly, dreamily. […] Clementi […] gives us a pleasant and sparkling Je te veux on a text by the poet Henry Pacory. She is flanked by the piano with effective and engaging touch. In a few minutes we recall the singularity, the originality of the French composer. […] The evening closes with two Japanese composers Mieko Shiomi and Yoko Ono. Their works hark back to the art movement born in the 1960s and called Fluxus. Experimentalism, interdisciplinarity, improvisation, happenings, and performance aspects are its founding features. In an open vision where art is lived as a collective life experience against all conventions, the works presented by Clementi through actions, gestures, vocality, transport us to those years full of expectations and research. ” Paolo Carradori – Le Salon Musical
Two performances coming up soon, one in Italy and one in US, celebrating the centennial of two composers, Aldo Clementi and Lucia Dlugoszewski. I’ll have the pleasure to perform with great musicians and dancers.
On Thursday May 29, 9 pm in Tavagnacco, Udine, at Moroso Design Outlet, organized by Salotto Musicale Fvg, I will play some duo pieces in the show of singer and performer (or actress of the voice, as she properly says) Anna Clementi. A. A. Clementi is the title of the event. Anna in fact is the talentuos daughter of Aldo Clementi, one of the main Italian composer of the after-war generation, and the concert is dedicated to his centennial. We will play pieces for voice and piano by Aldo Clementi, John Cage, Mieko Shiomi, Erik Satie and she will perform solos for voice by Emanuele Casale, Morton Feldman, Yoko Ono, Dieter Schnebel. Info and bookings. [Edit: pics below]
Soon after I will fly again to US. On Tuesday June 3, 8 pm in Washington DC at the Thomas Jefferson Building I will perform in a celebrative event organized by the Library of Congress. The (effortless) now: Dances of Erick Hawkins and Lucia Dlugoszewski will celebrate Lucia Dlugoszewski’s centennial, and the Erick Hawkins Dance Company-New York will be dancing the original dances by Hawkins created in a very close collaboration with the music by Lucia Dlugoszewski. Katherine Duke, director of the company, and myself spent several months to reconstruct the works from the original documentation. We made a first performance in Philadelphia a couple of weeks ago where I already had the priviledge of following the beatiful duets of dancers Jason Hortin and Hayley Meier in Here and Now With Watchers and the sparkling quartets in Cantilever. In this program I will also play with Min-Young Kim, top first violin of Daedalus Quartet, an intricate and captivating piece for violin and piano by H. Meltzer. The event is in collaboration with Bowerbird-Philadelphia. Info and tickets [Edit: and pics below].
, ⬇️ Here are some pics from the performance with Anna Clementi, courtesy of Davide Maestrutti for Salotto Musicale Fvg, and below some from the performance at Library of Congress, Washington DC, for the centennial of Lucia Dlugoszewski with Min-Young Kim and Hawkins Dance Company, by Shawn Miller, Library of Congress.
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Min-Young Kim, on violin, and Agnese Toniutti, on piano, perform Harold Metzler’s “Kreisleriana” in the Coolidge Auditorium, June 3, 2025. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
Note: Privacy and publicity rights for individuals depicted may apply.Min-Young Kim, on violin, and Agnese Toniutti, on piano, perform Harold Metzler’s “Kreisleriana” in the Coolidge Auditorium, June 3, 2025. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
Note: Privacy and publicity rights for individuals depicted may apply.Min-Young Kim, on violin, and Agnese Toniutti, on piano, perform Harold Metzler’s “Kreisleriana” in the Coolidge Auditorium, June 3, 2025. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
Note: Privacy and publicity rights for individuals depicted may apply.Hayley Meier and Jason Hortin of the Erick Hawkins Dance Company perform excerpts of “Here and Now With Watchers” with Agnese Toniutti on piano in the Coolidge Auditorium, June 3, 2025. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
Note: Privacy and publicity rights for individuals depicted may apply.Jason Hortin of the Erick Hawkins Dance Company performs excerpts of “Here and Now With Watchers” with Agnese Toniutti on piano in the Coolidge Auditorium, June 3, 2025. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
Note: Privacy and publicity rights for individuals depicted may apply.Hayley Meier of the Erick Hawkins Dance Company performs excerpts of “Here and Now With Watchers” with Agnese Toniutti on piano in the Coolidge Auditorium, June 3, 2025. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
Note: Privacy and publicity rights for individuals depicted may apply.Hayley Meier and Jason Hortin of the Erick Hawkins Dance Company perform excerpts of “Here and Now With Watchers” with Agnese Toniutti on piano in the Coolidge Auditorium, June 3, 2025. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
Note: Privacy and publicity rights for individuals depicted may apply.Jason Hortin of the Erick Hawkins Dance Company performs excerpts of “Cantilever” in the Coolidge Auditorium, June 3, 2025. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
Note: Privacy and publicity rights for individuals depicted may apply.Members of the Erick Hawkins Dance Company perform excerpts of “Cantilever” in the Coolidge Auditorium, June 3, 2025. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
Note: Privacy and publicity rights for individuals depicted may apply.Members of the Erick Hawkins Dance Company perform excerpts of “Cantilever” in the Coolidge Auditorium, June 3, 2025. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
Note: Privacy and publicity rights for individuals depicted may apply.Members of the Erick Hawkins Dance Company perform excerpts of “Cantilever” in the Coolidge Auditorium, June 3, 2025. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
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