About this Event
TexasCellos SESSIONS. Genre defying cellist Joseph Kuipers@ Courtroom Theater
“…a powerfully gifted performer, and a virtuoso cellist. He interprets the old and the new with care, thought and analytical insight.”
SONUS JOURNAL
Join us at the McKinney Performing Arts Center for an evening of Miniatures & Folklore performed by the genre defying cellist Joseph Kuipers. Immerse yourself in cello, electronics and Stephen Lochbaum on guitar with a program of folk, jazz, rock, as well as various ethnic traditions from the Mediterranean region. Don't miss out on this unique musical experience!
MINIATURES & FOLKLORE
Sollima: Hell I 'Songs from the Divine Comedy'. cello/ electronics
Vivaldi: Sonata in e minor. cello/guitar
Johnny Cash: Hurt
Maria-Theresa von Paradis: Sicilienne
Manuel de Falla Suite Populaire Espagnole :El Pano Moruno, Nana, Cancion, Polo, Asturiana, Jota
Chopin: Nocturne in C# minor op post.
Duport: Etude No. 7 for Solo Cello
Despalj: Omaggio a Bellini ( homage to Bellini)
Corelli: La Folia
Sting: Fields of Gold
Dvorak/ DongJin: Going Home/ Where the Cloud Roams
Kuipers: 'to L. Cohen' for Solo Cello
Joseph Kuipers, cello
Stephen Lochbaum, guitar
MINIATURES & FOLKLORE
We answer the big questions of life through story, and this folklore is our cultural DNA. It includes the traditional art, stories, knowledge, and practices of a people. While folklore can be bound up in memory and histories, folklore encompasses the traditions, beliefs, stories, customs, fairy tales, legends, myths, tall tales, and fables, transmitted orally, from generation to generation.
Folklore is not something one can typically gain from a formal school curriculum. Instead, this knowing is passed along informally from one individual to another, either through verbal instruction or demonstration. They are an expression of archetypes, a reflection of parts of ourselves that help us find answers to the questions of ‘Who am I?’ ‘Why am I here?’
NOLSTAGIC SPACES
There are people who never, or only rarely, read between the lines. And there are those who only, or almost always, do.
It would be interesting to find out whether people who never, or only rarely, read between the lines know that they are sending out messages nonetheless - the ones that crystallize between the lines - and have to expect their unconsciously composed messages to be received by others. These messages, of whose existence the author is entirely unaware, are highly interesting!
The case is similar for the ‘Zwischenräume’, the speaking silences, in this program, for which I have developed an enormous nostalgia. Nostalgia? Yes - because these interstices offer me a brief moment of insight into the No Man's Land of the eras, or perhaps more precisely, into the interstices connecting the various musical eras. The shorter the time, the more intense my experience.
How I would love to know what Vivaldi would feel if he heard a cello and guitar arrangement of one of his sonatas linked up with the electronic backtrack of Giovanni Sollima’s Hell I! This linkage creates the magic moment I love so much - it is very brief but incredibly thrilling and intense. What happens inside us when the solemn prayer ' Chopin’s C# minor nocturne is answered by the onslaught of Duport’s Etude No. 7?
As a point of interest, these miniatures are popular songs from varying cultures, from Nine Inch Nails’ Hurt to Dvorak’s ‘Goin Home’ to de Falla’s Suite based on seven Spanish folksongs. ‘To L. Cohen’ on the other hand, was my own attempt, as a bored cellist during the pandemic of writing a baroque fantasia based on Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah.
-Joseph Kuipers
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
McKinney Performing Arts Center, 111 North Tennessee Street, McKinney, United States
USD 36.62
