Mark Andre / Anton Webern / Arnold Schoenberg / Frédéric Pattar

Anton Webern /Arnold Schoenberg / Mark Andre / Frédéric Pattar

Archive 2007
Music

© Frédéric Pattar, photo © Rémy Jannin ©

Mark Andre
Zum Staub sollst Du zurückkehren…
French premiere
Anton Webern
Deux pièces, for cello and piano
Arnold Schoenberg
Ein Stelldichein, for oboe, clarinet, piano, violin and cello
Frédéric Pattar
Outlyer, for an ensemble
World premiere, commissioned by the Musée du Louvre and the Festival d’Automne à Paris
Ensemble L’Instant Donné

Co-produced by the Musée du Louvre and the Festival d’Automne à Paris
With the help of Sacem

The painter Anselm Kiefer chose ‘‘Boundaries’’ as the theme for the Auditorium du Louvre’s series of concerts and lectures. The musical styles of the featured composers are characterised by their freedom from formal limitations. In Webern’s and Schönberg’s early works, the boundary lies between expressiveness and formalization. Andre’s score is a metaphor for the link between the existential and the metaphysical. And Pattar’s Outlyer – a work inspired by Jim Harrison’s poem – explores the distance between what is seen and what is not seen, including a dialogue between a  flutist backstage and a violinist onstage.

In the same place

Musée du Louvre
novembernov 4 – 16

François Chaignaud
Petites joueuses

Dance

The Festival d'Automne continues, for the third year in a row, its partnership with the Louvre Museum. Together, they have been building up a collection of new contemporary performances dedicated to the museum and its works. On the occasion of the 'Figures du fou. Du Moyen âge aux romantiques' exhibition, which explores the subversive value of the foolish or the nonsensical in medieval society, the dancer and choreographer François Chaignaud brings us Petites joueuses. In this piece, an immersive and uninterrupted journey through the medieval Louvre, mutant and resonant creatures take over its fortifications, giving rise to a somewhat disturbing carnival.