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I Musici de Montréal
Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition - with the award-winning film by Natasha Turovsky
and Gael Hollard
I Musici de Montréal performs Mussorgsky's masterful "Pictures at an Exhibition"
with the
award-winning film of choreographed paintings by Natasha Turovsky. The film was
inspired by Mussorgsky's beloved piece
and the story behind it -- paintings of Victor Hartmann were the original
inspiration for Mussorgsky’s timeless music. The centerpiece of this towering program features the Mussorgsky classic in a production traveling with digital
projections of the fifteen large-scale paintings by Natasha Turovosky --
including, The
Promenade, Baba-Yaga, The Gates of Kiev and more. The film, co-created with
digital animator Gael Hollard, is featured on-stage via large screen
projection above the orchestra.
Acclaimed artist Natasha Turovsky's work has been seen in solo exhibitions from Hong Kong and Barcelona
to Cleveland, Boston and Montréal. Her work has been commissioned by diverse
requests from record labels, chamber music ensembles and more. Among the major
press generated by her remarkable paintings is a new BRAVO Documentary, "Pictures at a Concert", and honors for the
choreographed paintings at severa l film festivals.
Watch the trailer for the film. Or
watch a the Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks. A DVD of the film with I Musici
de Montreal performing Mussorgsky's work is available on request.
In 2007, the film won an Excellence in Cinema Award at the New York
International Independent Film and Video Festival. The film has just been
selected for the 2010 Cannes Independent Film Festival in the Animated Short
category. More...
"The big-screen projection is an uninterrupted suite of delight, with effects of
movement, space and depth, always successfully achieved. The "Catacombes" are
mind-boggling and a sky filled with bells dominates the "Great Gate of Kiev"...
The arrangement for fifteen strings made by Turovsky recreates astonishingly
well the atmosphere of each piece, including the little squeaks of the "Unhatched
Chicks"."
La Presse, Montreal
"...Yuli Turovsky, arranged the work for the group’s 15 string players.
The work was musically satisfying, and the resulting leaner textures and cleaner
lines produced by a small group of strings are arguably closer to the composer’s
original vision. Ten paintings by Turovsky’s daughter Natasha, who also played violin in the
orchestra, were inspired by the music. A series of digital images were
extrapolated from the paintings, manipulated and projected onto a screen above
the musicians onstage. The resulting collaboration was surprisingly well
choreographed, with many images even moving in time with the music. The work’s
finale, “The Great Gate at Kiev” was moving, with the marvelous music set to
images of faceless hordes of Russian peasants and tolling bells."
Kansas City Star
"...art inspired by music inspired by art..." KCMetropolis.org
"The film was “choreographed” by the Turovskys to match element of action in
the music... the scenes created by the younger Turovsky in muted earth tone
colors were equally haunting and whimsical, literal and abstract. While this
sort of collaboration is found often in the contemporary arts, it was enjoyable
to see classical musicians have a turn injecting new life into a standard work
over a century old in this way, making a connection between the visual and
auditory." KCMetropolis.org
Read Yuli Turovsky's description of how this special project came to be.
Sample Program Structure:
Shostakovich -Chamber Symphony op.49bis (Orchestral version of Quartet #1.)
Tchaikovsky Serenade
intermission
Mussorgsky-Pictures at an Exhibition for strings with film
Shostakovich Prelude & Scherzo, op. 11
Tchaikovsky Serenade
intermission
Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition with film
"...every player was not only alert but brilliantly assured. It is hard to do
justice to the effect of such playing, vividly committed from top to bottom..."
Financial Times, London
"The orchestra responded to Turovsky's skillfully turned phrases with a golden
intonation and supple sense of musical line...Turovsky and I Musici de Montréal
are passionate musicians, and they go right to music's guts." The Washington
Post
For more information on engaging any of I Musici de Montréal's programs, please
contact:
Martha Woods, Jonathan Wentworth Associates, Ltd. at
301/277-8205 mjws@jwentworth.com or call our main office in New York at
914-667-0707.
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