Premiere US Premiere
Production Language English
Country of Origin Germany, United States, Canada
Description A probing, ambitious work of music-theater by Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe, the ceaselessly inventive composer-founders of Bang on a Can, with libretto by Deborah Artman, Lost Objects explores the myriad implications of loss, and what it means to us when those things once lost are found. These timeless themes find voice through the fusion of Baroque sound -- wonderfully rendered by Germany's Concerto Köln -- and a hallucinatory, large-scale staging by director/filmmaker François Girard (32 Short Films about Glen Gould, The Red Violin). Add the sonic finesse of DJ Spooky, remixing live, as well as four musicians on electric instruments, three solo vocalists, and a 28-voice choir, and the result is an unforgettable look at the forgotten and mislaid objects that compose our continuously vanishing culture.
Identifier 2004f.00796
