Musical Dialogues: Hearing the Conversation Unfold

Alfredo Santa Ana, Wall Composer In Residence presents Musical Dialogues:
Hearing the Conversation Unfold with David Gillham, UBC School of Music (violin),
and Rebecca Wenham (cello).

Plato’s dialogues capture the evolution of an exchange between two characters, and
present a linear progression of arguments unfolding through the text. In music, the
listener is presented with an analogue situation in which the music moves through
time and gradually introduces elements that build a musical rhetoric. This presentation
will include a talk and a performance of Eleven Dialogues for violin and cello, a work
composed by the Wall Composer in Residence, in which both instruments interact with
one another in a context inspired by the moment-to-moment exchange and the
gradual presentation of musical ideas. Although at times the resolution of dialogues
may be inconclusive, it is the probing and the scrutiny of each of the ideas that seems
to capture essential elements of the concepts being expounded.

A free performance.
Thursday, May 17, 2012 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
UBC ICICS/CS Atrium 2366 Main Mall, Vancouver

Light lunch available. Arrive early as seating is limited.
Attendance is free but please RSVP at: RSVP@pwias.ubc.ca