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LIFE Music LIFE Music Calendar The next performances of LIFE Music will be: Saturday, November 3, 2007 at the Teatro della Corte in Genova, Italy LIFE will be performed in Genoa, by the Torino Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Carlo Boccadoro. This performance will be held at the Teatro della Corte, in conjunction with Genoa's annual science festival, the Festival della Scienza. A special exhibition of Frans Lanting's images from LIFE will be on display at the festival. For ticket
information, please check the Festival's website: About LIFE Music LIFE Music is an original multimedia orchestral performance that chronicles the story of life on Earth through the imagery of Frans Lanting and the music of Philip Glass. The World Premiere performances of LIFE were presented by the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in July 2006 , with Maestra Marin Alsop conduction the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra. The East Coast premieres of LIFE were performed by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Marin Alsop, in Washington, D.C and Baltimore, Maryland, in February 2007. More about the story behind the making of LIFE Music , from the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music 2006 Program Guide:
More from the Program Guide: The WORLD PREMIERE performances of Concept and images by Frans Lanting Introduction narrated by Peter Coyote LIFE: A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME (2006) l. Elements The performance is presented without intermission, and is followed by a question and answer session with the artistic team. More about the Opening Night Premiere performance of LIFE Music
The Cabrillo Festival Orchestra under Maestra Marin Alsop will present the world premiere performances of a groundbreaking new multimedia work that merges art and science, photography and music. LIFE: A Journey Through Time, is the culmination of National Geographic photographer Frans Lanting’s six-year journey of photographic discovery that parallels new scientific insights about the evolution of life on Earth. The result is a lyrical interpretation of life on our planet, from its earliest beginnings to its present diversity. From prehistoric trilobites to giant tortoises, delicate jellies to spiny octopus trees, and from erupting volcanoes to shimmering coral reefs, LIFE: A Journey Through Time is a testament to the magical beauty and enduring miracle of life on Earth. Lanting’s breathtaking images will be exquisitely choreographed by visual designer and editor Alexander Nichols, to orchestral music by composer Philip Glass, who joins us for Opening Night. A Cabrillo Festival commission, the Glass score is comprised of seven sections adapted from works originally composed for smaller ensembles or solo instruments, and now presented for the first time in arrangements for full orchestra. Maestra Alsop will conduct the Festival Orchestra in front of a 48-foot projection screen filled with Lanting’s imagery, as Glass’ music creates the emotional underpinnings of this celebration of LIFE: A Journey Through Time. Each performance will be followed by a Question & Answer Session with the artistic team, including Frans Lanting, Philip Glass (Saturday, July 29 only), Marin Alsop, and Alexander V. Nichols.
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"In the winter of 2004, photographer Frans Lanting approached the Cabrillo Festival's Music Director and Conductor Marin Alsop with an idea. Already four years into a monumental project about the evolution of life on the planet, Lanting could envision his new body of work somehow merged with music. An admirer of Alsop at the Festival and of her previous theatrical and multimedia undertakings, he could foresee the power and emotional potential of such a collaboration. Alsop viewed his extraordinary photographs and immediately agreed, and the Festival undertook to create an original work that would merge art and science, photography and music, for Santa Cruz audiences and other orchestras around the world. Conversations quickly turned to composer Philip Glass's music as an artistic complement, and Alsop extended an invitation. In early 2005, Alsop and Lanting met with Glass in New York to discuss his participation in the project and the commission was confirmed. Designer Alexander Nichols's breadth of experience in lighting and scenic design in music, dance, and theatre, coupled with his resume of artistic archievements and his familiarity with Lanting's photography, made him the uniquely qualified lynchpin of the artistic team--the person who would take still photographs and a musical score, convey an epic story, and bring them to life with the theatricality and sense of majesty they commanded."
Opening Night begins with an outdoor Pre-Concert Talk by Marin Alsop and a special dinner (ticketed event) served alfresco at the Civic Auditorium.