The Opus 111 Project: Intermedia Variations on Beethoven’s Last Piano Sonata, 2014
A curated project in collaboration with visual artists, philosophers, musicians, sound artists, and others to create a variation-response to some aspect of Beethoven’s final piano sonata
Interdisciplinary Performances:
Six programs featuring a performance of Opus 111 with the following variations (April, 2014)
Theme Steven Pane - Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata in C minor, Opus 111
Variation 1 Nate Vallette ’14 - sound installation: Variations on a Theme: A Networked, Collaborative Installation For Any Number of Participants, Based on the Theme from the 2nd Movement of Opus 111.
Variation 2 Jonathan Cohen - presentation-discussion: Perpetual Progress vs. Perennial Paradox: Hegel, Kierkegaard, and late Beethoven
Variation 3 Gustavo Aguilar - The Visible And Invisible For Piano, Four Tape Recorders, Voice, And Six Audience Members
Variation 4 Phil Carlsen, UMF Community Orchestra - Phantastische Sonate for Piano And Orchestra
Variation 5: Kristen Case - poetic reading - Arietta: Fragments After Beethoven's Sonata 32 In C Minor
Variation 6: Matthew Houston ‘12 - reading - The Play of Difference
Variation 7: Michael Johnson and the students of HON 277 Analyze This!!!!!!* Said Edward, 'What is Late Style?' Answered Langston Hughes, 'Ask Your Mama’"
Variation 8: Christine Darrohn - reading - Late (fiction)
Variation 9: Daniel Woodward - tenor - Mozart, Abendempfindung Richard Strauss, Morgen
Variation 10: Henry Braun - reading - John Keats, The Living Hand and other poetry
