Éliane Radigue and Arvo Pärt: Tabula Rasa

: PROGRAM

​Arvo PÄRT -  (1977) Éliane RADIGUE - (2019) (US premiere)  TABULA RASAOCCAM DELTA XIII

Movses Pogossian, violin (Pärt) Varty Manouelian, violin (Pärt) UCLA Camarades String Ensemble (Pärt) Jonathan Hepfer, conductor (Pärt) ​ Carol Robinson, bass clarinet (Radigue) Hélène Breschand, harp (Radigue) Louis-Michel Marion, double bass (Radigue)

 - Éliane Radigue​​"I hope that the future of music is as vast as space itself."

Visiting Éliane Radigue in her apartment in Paris this summer, I was struck by the light. Not only was the apartment filled with natural afternoon light, bright colors and beautiful flowers, but the eyes and demeanor of the woman who inhabited the space seemed herself were positively radiant.  

The term avant-garde typically conjures darkness in my mind; it brings to mind works plumb the depths of the human soul and experience. In the case of Éliane Radigue, it is the opposite; the deeper one goes, the more light one seems to find.