Tippet Rise on Tour: Spring Festival | Day One

Tippet Rise on Tour: Spring Festival | Day One

Premiered April 16, 2021 at 6PM MDT

Program:
Katie Hyun, violin
VYTAUTAS BARKAUSKAS: Partita for violin solo (1967)
Filmed at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York on November 20, 2020
Tristan Cook, filmmaker; Noriko Okabe, audio engineer. Duration: 7:45

Pedja Mužijević, piano and speaker
Is It Real? (A Loving Homage to Surrealism)
ERIK SATIE: Desiccated Embryos (1913)
KURT SCHWITTERS: Ur Sonata - excerpt (1932)
GEORGE ANTHEIL: The Hundred Headless Woman (1933)
Filmed at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York on November 20, 2020
Tristan Cook, filmmaker; Noriko Okabe, audio engineer. Duration: 13:12

Tippet Rise on Tour was a virtual three-day festival of 10 short films.

For the first day of Tippet Rise on Tour: Spring Festival, Friday, April 16, Tippet Rise presented two films captured at the DiMenna Center. The first features violinist Katie Hyun—founding member of the award winning Amphion String Quartet and founder and director of the Quodlibet Ensemble—performing Vytautas Barkauskas’ Partita for violin solo. For the second film, Tippet Rise’s Artistic Advisor, Pedja Mužijević performs in a program titled Is It Real (A Loving Homage to Surrealism), which includes music and spoken word by Satie, Schwitters, and Antheil.