Self-Portraits 1964, Unfinished

Martin Bresnick, world premiere
w/ PRISM Quartet

Friday, March 24 @ 7pm

Church of the Holy Trinity, Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia

co-presented by Penn Live Arts

Our souls are like
Those orphans whose
Unwedded mothers
Die in bearing them:

The secret of
Our paternity
Lies in their grave, and
We must there to learn it.

– 1. Herman Melville, Moby Dick
2. James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
in Martin Bresnick’s Self-Portraits 1964, Unfinished

The philosophical observations of Melville, Joyce, Hardy, and Hopkins come together in Martin Bresnick’s Cento (a new poem, constructed of previously existing poems). The result is a tumultuous journey of questioning, whimsy, and stoicism. Not only one of the most renowned composers of our time, Martin is also one of the most significant teachers of composition, numbering as his students many of the ‘household names’ of music today. A reunion with the saxophone quartet PRISM, with which we won our first Grammy.

Photo: French oyster beds