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Rooms of Light: The Life of Photographs (A Song Cycle)

October 18, 2015, 3:00 pm
Location Alexander Kasser Theater
SponsorPeak PerformancesCost$20; no charge for undergraduates when you show your valid MSU ID at the box office, courtesy of your Performing Arts FeeMore Informationhttp:/‌/‌www.peakperfs.org/‌peak-programming-2015-16/‌Rooms-of-light/‌Posted InPeak Performances
ArtistFred Hersch | Mary Jo SalterPremiereWorld PremiereTicketshttp://peakperfs.tix.com/Schedule.aspx?OrgNum=1631&ActCode=116782
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Fred Hersch is “a pianist, composer, and conceptualist of rare imaginative power.” – Nate Chinin, The New York Times

For centuries, fleeting moments could only be retained in our memories. Now photographs capture our every move. Rooms of Light, a song cycle from renowned composer/jazz pianist Fred Hersch and acclaimed poet/playwright Mary Jo Salter, explores how the cascade of images from the Civil War, wedding albums, X-rays, paparazzi, outer space and the deep seas, Instagram and selfies has changed us.

Words by Mary Jo Salter, Music Composed and Orchestrated by Fred Hersch
Directed by Daniella Topol, Lighting Design by Eric Cornwell, Music Directed and Conducted by Gregg Kallor
Performed by Jonathan Estabrooks, Rebecca Faulkenberry, Kathryn Guthrie, Gabrielle Stravelli, Michael Winther
And the Fred Hersch Ensemble: Matt Aronoff, Fred Hersch, Lois Martin, Ross Pederson, Jody Redhage, Sam Sadigursky, Laura Seaton, Bruce Williamson

70 minutes, no intermission. Learn more about Fred Hersch.