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Pierre Boulez Leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in World Premiere of Matthias Pintscher's Osiris

Jan. 31, 2008

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra performs the world premiere of Matthias Pinstcher's Osiris on Thursday, February 21 at 8:00 PM under the baton of Pierre Boulez. Co-commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra and Carnegie Hall, the work is the result of the composer's fascination with the myth of the Egyptian God Osiris. God of the afterlife and fertility, Osiris can be seen as an embodiment of the idea of growth and decay and his myth an allegory for artistic creativity. Following Osiris' murder, his wife Isis gathers his fragmented body parts and reassembles him through the pulsating of her wings. Pintscher remarks:

Out of this comes a formal structure for me, consisting of various stages of fragmentation and reanimation: the initial condition of unity, the disintegration into individual parts and their reconstruction and metamorphosis - a genuine musical process. In this work I have sought to create larger contexts and connections, which can encapsulate Osiris as one of the most complex figures in Egyptian mythology in musical form.

The world premiere run of Osiris at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra continues on Friday, February 22 and Saturday February 23. The CSO takes Osiris on the road for its New York premiere at Carnegie Hall on Monday, February 25.

To learn more on the music of Matthias Pintscher, please visit www.baerenreiter.com.

For more information on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's performances of Osiris, go to www.cso.org and www.carnegiehall.org.

Matthias Pintscher
Osiris (2007)
for orchestra
3(2pic)2.ca.2.bcl(cbclar)2.cbn-432.btbn.1-4perc-2hp.pno/cel-
str(14.12.10.8.6;db5-string)
ca. 20'

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