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Art & Science
Friday, February 2 - 7:30 PM
Christ Church Charlotte
1412 Providence Rd., Charlotte, NC 28207
Saturday, February 3 - 7:30 PM
Davidson College Presbyterian Church
100 North Main St., Davidson, NC 28036
“simply magical”
Fanfare Magazine
“dramatic and deeply moving”
Star Tribune, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Jocelyn Hagen: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
The Charlotte Master Chorale Chamber Singers present Art and Science, a meeting at the intersection of creativity and design anchored by the North Carolina premiere of Jocelyn Hagen’s multimedia symphony,The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, which utilizes the latest in video syncing technology to bring Leonardo’s words and drawings to life.
Because da Vinci’s intricate handwriting and sketches are stunningly beautiful, it would be odd not to include them as a visual component to this project. As a writer, da Vinci wrote from right to left, backwards, as if in a mirror. These beautifully scribed words scroll above the musicians and add a wonderful texture to the performance. Many sketches in the notebooks are of the human form, corresponding perfectly to his observations on the proportions of the body.
Art & Science
Leonardo Dreams of a Flying Machine
Music by Eric Whitacre (b. 1970)
Text by Charles Anthony Silvestri (b. 1965)
Michelangelo’s On Beauty
Kurt Knecht (b. 1971)
Text by Michelangelo di Ludovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475–1564)
A Silence Haunts Me
Jake Runestad (b. 1986)
after Beethoven’s Heiligenstadt Testament by Todd Boss (b. 1968)
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (North Carolina Premiere)
Jocelyn Hagen (b. 1980)
The libretto was crafted by Jocelyn Hagen using various public domain English translations from Leonardo da Vinci’s notebook pages.
Charlotte Master Chorale Chamber Singers
Elaina Palada, flute
Teil Taliesin, oboe
Jessica Lindsey, clarinet
David Wallace, bassoon
Tim Papenbrock, horn
Katie Kilroy, percussion
Stephanie Wilson, percussion
Philip Biedenbender, piano
Christine Van Arsdale, harp
Alice Silva, violin 1
David Strassberg, violin 2
Anna Hunsucker, viola
Tanja Bechtler, cello
Nixon Bustos, bass
Kenney Potter, conducting