Concert 1: “Immeasurable Space”
Thursday, March 5
8:00 PM
Sage Chapel

Guest performers Geneviève Grenier and Marilyn Nonken and Cornell graduate students Matthew Hall and Jonathan Schakel perform works by Olivier Messiaen and André Jolivet for organ and ondes Martenot, and John Luther Adams’s The Immeasurable Space of Tones (1998–2001).

PROGRAM

Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)
Messe de la Pentecôte (1949–1950)
      I. Entrée (Les langues de feu)
      II. Offertoire (Les choses visibles et invisibles)
      III. Consécration (Le don de sagesse)
      IV. Communion (Les oiseaux et les sources)
      V. Sortie (Le vent de l'Esprit)
Jonathan Schakel, organ

Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)
Selections from Feuillets inédits (posthumous) for ondes Martenot and piano

André Jolivet (1905–1974)
Trois Poèmes (1935) for ondes Martenot and piano
      I. Ondes
      II. Sérimpie
      III. Chant d'oppression
Geneviève Grenier, ondes Martenot
Marilyn Nonken, piano


—intermission—

Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)
From Fête des belles eaux (1937)
      Oraison for ondes Martenot and organ
Geneviève Grenier, ondes Martenot
Matthew Hall, organ

John Luther Adams (b. 1953)
The Immeasurable Space of Tones
Ariana Kim, violin
Mike Compitello, vibraphone
David Friend, piano
Matthew Hall, organ
Sam Shuhan, contrabass
Chris Kim, conductor

If you need accommodations to participate in this event, please contact Damien Mahiet (info@westfield.org, 607-255-3065) as soon as possible.