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We’re on tonight! 8pm, Bryn Mawr College
After two years, we are back! We hope to see you tonight at Goodhart Hall on the Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series, or Monday at Roulette in Brooklyn.
“What if the walls between us were made of music?”
Writing about his Mending Wall commission, Martin Bresnick asked, “What if the walls between us were made of music?” These clips of quarantined Italians singing and playing from their balconies offer a moving demonstration. See a full playlist at La Repubblica: “Coronavirus, nelle città deserte si canta insieme alle finestre: l’effetto è struggente”
Performances are postponed
Read our announcement here.
“To have a home is not a favour”: Keorapetse Kgositsile on the refugee crisis
In his Mending Wall commission, composer George Lewis sets text by the late South African poet and activist Keorapetse Kgositsile (1938–2018), who once described the boundary between poetry and music as “artificial” and “practically criminal.” In this 2009 video, Kgositsile reads his “Anguish Longer Than Sorrow.”
We’ve been workshopping…
PRISM, Arturo O’Farrill, and Tony Arnold spent several days together in mid-December running through the music with Jorinde Keesmaat (our fearless director), lighting designer Aaron Copp, and all four composers. “Running through” doesn’t do justice to what turned out to be a rigorous, challenging, and invigorating process.
Hong Kong Barricades by Lele Saveri
“The barricades, put up using temporary fencing and various objects, strike him in particular by virtue of their structure: they are the symbol of the determination and resistance of the demonstrators, the image of a protest which does not burn out in a single season but which is still alive today. “
Welcome!
PRISM Quartet and collaborators will use this blog to post updates about Mending Wall as the project develops and to share other images/writings/works of art that feel timely, are influencing our thinking, or have some thematic or conceptual overlap with Mending Wall. The comments section is open for you to share your own ideas and …