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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
New Music Ensemble, Deborah Hay and “How to Build Cathedrals”
“For So Long It’s Not True”
Musicians from the Butler School of Music’s New Music Ensemble play the Austin premiere of “For So Long It’s Not True,” a new piece by Austin-based composer Steven Snowden who last year won Austin Critics’ Table for Best Composition. Snowden wrote the chamber orchestra piece — which gets its title from a Led Zepplin song — for new music ensemble Alarm Will Sound. Works by Lukas Foss, Karel Husa and Witold Lutoslawski are also on the program. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Bates Recital Hall, Music Building, UT campus. Free. Concert will be webcat live at www.
music.utexas.edu
“I Think Not”
Since 2004, groundbreaking choreographer Deborah Hay has each summer held her Solo Performance Commissioning Project for dancemakers from around the world. Each participant in Hay’s project agrees to a daily solo practice of the piece for a minimum of three months before .
“Cildo Meireles”
Since the 1960s, Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles has made dramatic and politically-charged installations. Among them is “Missão/Missões (How to Build Cathedrals)” a biting critique of the Jesuit missionaries in Brazil. Made of 600,000 coins, 800 communion wafers and 2,000 cattle bones, the massive room-sized “Missão/Missões” is a centerpiece of the Blanton Museum’s permanent collection. Gerald Fox’s critically acclaimed 50-minute documentary of Meireles screens today followed by a tour and discussion of “Missã o/Missões.” 6 p.m. Thursday. Blanton Museum of Art, Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Congress Avenue. Free. www.blantonmuseum.org
Image: Cildo Meireles, “Missão/Missõ es [How to Build Cathedrals],” 1987. Blanton Museum of ARt.
