[HvEXAS] JACK Quartet | tonight at 8 | EMPAC, Troy, NY

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2011/fall/jack

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PERFORMANCE
JACK Quartet
Friday, December 9, 8 PM
$18 general admission (discounted tickets available)

A string quartet performance in two acts featuring three pieces from the 1960s to the present that play with conventions of music notation and performance, and a haunting 30-minute piece from the 1990s with an uncanny spectral interplay. 

+ Program:

* Earle Brown, String Quartet

* Peter Ablinger, Wachstum und Massenmord

* Alex Mincek, String Quartet No. 3 "lift-tilt-filter-split"

- intermission -

* Horaţiu Rădulescu, String Quartet No. 5 "before the universe was born"

The JACK Quartet electrifies audiences worldwide with "explosive virtuosity" (The Boston Globe) and "viscerally exciting performances" (The New York Times). David Patrick Stearns of The Philadelphia Inquirer proclaimed their performance to be "among the most stimulating new-music concerts of my experience," and NPR listed their performance as one of The Best New York Alt-Classical Concerts Of 2010.

Comprising violinists Christopher Otto and Ari Streisfeld, violist John Pickford Richards, and cellist Kevin McFarland, JACK is focused on commissioning and performing new works, and the quartet has worked closely with composers Helmut Lachenmann and György Kurtág, among others. JACK also offers fresh interpretations of early music, including works by Don Carlo Gesualdo, Guillaume de Machaut, and Josquin des Prez.

+ JACK Quartet site: http://jackquartet.com/

+ video of JACK Quartet performing String Quartet No. 5 "before the universe was born": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKeo79Ldz50

Evelyn's Café will open at 7 PM with a full menu of meals, snacks, and beverages as well as a selection of wines. Service continues during intermission and after the performance.

Tickets are $18 for general admission, $13 for students, seniors, and Rensselaer faculty + staff, and $6 for Rensselaer students (you must provide the appropriate identification for discounted tickets). Parking is available in the Rensselaer parking lot on College Avenue.

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The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) 
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 
110 8th Street 
Troy, NY  12180
http://empac.rpi.edu/
Box Office: 518.276.3921

[HvEXAS] TONIGHT! Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire at 7:30 PM | EMPAC, Troy, NY

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2011/fall/eternal/wings

http://www.facebook.com/events/248115555248581/

SCREENING: THE ETERNAL RETURN
Thursday, December 8, 7:30 pm
Wings of Desire

directed by Wim Wenders
$6

Wings of Desire is Wim Wenders' award-winning existential film about angels who silently watch over all of humanity, comforting individuals as they confront the trials of daily life. The film follows the angel Damien (Bruno Ganz) as he falls in love with a trapeze artist and strives to relinquish his immortality to join her on earth. The film is divided temporally between the angels, which exist outside of time, and humanity, which exists within it.

+ Trailer: http://youtu.be/SEOo640zVMQ

+ IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093191/

+ wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings_of_Desire

Wim Wenders is one of the leading representatives of new German cinema. Notable films include Lightening Over Water (1980); Wings of Desire (1987), for which he was awarded Best Director at Cannes, the European Film Festival, and German Film Awards; Until the End of the World (1991); Faraway, So Close! (1993); The End of Violence (1997); Buena Vista Social Club (1999); The Million Dollar Hotel (2000); and most recently, the 3-D film Pina (2011).
 
In the 1990s, Wim Wenders became chairman and then president of the European Film Academy. Since 2003, he has been a professor at the College of Fine Arts in Hamburg.

The Eternal Return is a collection of films that begins with the idea that time is a lie. Reveling in déjà vu and non-linear timelines, the series is inspired by such varied sources as Nietzsche's notion of the eternal recurrence and the multiverse hypothesis in physics. Each of the films in the series is structured by a central narrative loop and a thematic focus on the incommensurability of the momentary and the eternal.

Evelyn's Café will open at 6:30 PM with a full menu of meals, snacks, and beverages as well as a selection of wines. Parking is available in the Rensselaer parking lot on College Avenue.

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The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) 

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 

110 8th Street 

Troy, NY  12180

http://empac.rpi.edu/

Box Office: 518.276.3921

[HvEXAS] Robert Lue, Wings of Desire, and JACK Quartet

 

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. A still from The Inner Life of the Cell - courtesy of the artist TALK: OBSERVER EFFECTS Robert Lue: Using Art to Express and Advance the Scientific Process Wednesday, December 7, 6 PM FREE Robert Lue, biologist and director of life sciences education at Harvard, will discuss the vital and transformative role that visualizations play in both science research and education. Lue is the founder of BioVisions, a collaborative initiative led by Harvard scientists to improve the beauty and precision of science visualization. BioVisions is responsible for animations such as The Inner Life of the Cell (2006) and Powering the Cell: Mitochondria (2010). Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire (1987) SCREENING: THE ETERNAL RETURN Wings of Desire Thursday, December 8, 7:30 PM Tickets Wings of Desire is Wim Wenders' award-winning existential film about angels who silently watch over all of humanity, comforting individuals as they confront the trials of daily life. The film follows the angel Damien (Bruno Ganz) as he falls in love with a trapeze artist and strives to relinquish his immortality to join her on earth. The film is divided temporally between the angels, which exist outside of time, and humanity, which exists within it. Trailer JACK Quartet - photo by Justin Bernhaut PERFORMANCE JACK Quartet Friday, December 9, 8 PM Tickets A string quartet performance in two acts featuring three pieces from the 1960s to the present that play with conventions of music notation and performance, and a haunting 30-minute piece from the 1990s with an uncanny spectral interplay. Featuring compositions by Peter Ablinger, Earle Brown, Alex Mincek, and Horaţiu Rădulescu.          CAMPUS + COMMUNITY CONCERT 2011 Holiday Concert Sun. 12/11, 7:30 PM FREE - registration required Follow EMPAC on FACEBOOK + TWITTER! EMPAC 2011-2012 presentations, residencies, and commissions are supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts (with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; additional funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation, and the Boeing Company Charitable Trust), and the New York State Council for the Arts. Special thanks to the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts for support of artist commissions. EMPAC Box Office: 518.276.3921 Plan your visit to EMPAC! Get directions, maps, parking info, and a visitors guide. Our mailing address is: EMPAC Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 8th Street Troy, NY 12180 Add us to your address book Copyright © 2011 EMPAC All rights reserved.

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