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The Orpheus Choir of Toronto is ending their 2023/24 season with The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci by American composer Jocelyn Hagen. The distinctive multimedia work makes use of innovative tech to carry the centuries outdated ideas and drawings of the Italian polymath to vivid life.
Orchestras and different ensembles typically play to projected video and even blockbuster motion pictures. The MUSÈIK digital syncing software program, nonetheless, permits for fluid timing. The superior know-how permits the video components to be created because the music is carried out, i.e. to decelerate or pace up together with the musicians themselves, an necessary innovation.
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci is scored for SATB choir together with electronics and orchestra, utilizing video synchronizing know-how to carry the notebooks of the inventor and artist, with their drawings and phrases, to vivid life.
Jocelyn Hagen’s The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
What’s within the notebooks? Da Vinci was a painter, sculptor, inventor, musician, engineer and architect. The notebooks comprise his drawings and in addition his collected ideas within the type of notes, from in regards to the mid-1480s. His writing typically seems as what is called sixteenth century mirror writing, which is learn in reverse, and from proper to left. It’s possible that he wrote on unfastened sheets of paper that he stored with him for that goal, after which later collected them into notebooks.
“Although human ingenuity could make varied innovations, it is going to by no means devise any innovations extra stunning, nor extra easy, nor extra to the aim than Nature does; as a result of in her innovations nothing is wanting, and nothing is superfluous.” — Leonardo da Vinci
From the premiere in Minnesota in 2019:
After viewing an exhibition of Da Vinci’s notebooks in Minneapolis in 2016, composer Jocelyn Hagen started to develop the work she had been excited about for years in earnest. She was fascinated by the best way the notebooks documented Da Vinci’s thought processes, and the best way he may join varied concepts and ideas.
The work was commissioned by a consortium of ensembles from throughout the US, and since its premiere in 2019, has been carried out dozens of instances.
Since 2023, the work has been accessible to ensembles outdoors the consortium of commissioning organizations. It will symbolize its Canadian premiere.
Together with Jocelyn Hagen’s piece, this system might be rounded out by quick works of the Italian Renaissance.
- Discover tickets, and extra particulars in regards to the Might 11 Canadian premiere of The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, [HERE].
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