ARBOUR V: Kreisleriana

| POSTPONED re. COVID-19 — DATE FORTHCOMING |

University of Victoria | Philip T. Young Recital Hall | Victoria, BC

Michelle Mares, piano

Liam Hockley, clarinet | Kristen Cooke, oboe

Steven Kazuo Takasugi: Jargon of Nothingness [version for oboe, clarinet, and electronics]

Max Murray: Sötétség ad Meridiem

Alban Berg: Four Pieces, op. 5

Robert Schumann: Kreisleriana

Setting out from the luminous, hallucinatory theatricality of Steven Takasugi’s Jargon of Nothingness, we pass towards the Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano of Alban Berg: a composer whose work, characterized by Theodor Adorno alongside that of Robert Schumann, “opens into infinity, yet without transfiguring itself to the point of redemption.” The program centers on a performance of the latter composer’s early kaleidoscopic masterpiece, Kreisleriana —an arch-romantic work, verging on delirium— by internationally lauded, and locally treasured, Canadian pianist Michelle Mares [http://michellemares.ca/].