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US Premiere of Harrison Birtwistle's Cortege at Cleveland Institute of Music

Oct. 01, 2008

On Wednesday, October 15 the Cleveland Institute of Music presents the US premiere of Sir Harrison Birtwistle's Cortege. Composed for fourteen instrumentalists, Cortege utilizes a style unique to Birtwistle of combining ritual, theatre and music. In this piece the musicians are arranged in a semicircle and as the piece proceeds select members of the ensemble hand around from one to another a continuous but ever changing solo line. Physical movement is also central to experiencing Birtwistle's piece as a central position on the stage is reserved for whoever is carrying the solo at any one time, thus creating a drawn out dance as players move to the front of the stage and then to the outer semicircle as others fill the physical and musical space they have just vacated. Premiered by the London Sinfonietta in 2007, Cortege is conducted by Michael Adelson, guest conductor of the Cleveland Institute of Music.

For more information on the music of Sir Harrison Birtwistle, visit www.universaledition.com.

For precise ticketing information on Cortege at the Cleveland Institute of Music, go to www.cim.edu.

Sir Harrison Birtwistle
Cortege (2007)
a ceremony
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15'

photo © Richard Kalina

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