McDonagh has collaborated with artists from different disciplines. Composers Lisa Scola Prosek www.scolavox.com and the late Gerhard Samuel. Pianist Ric Louchard. Director Zack successfully translated his poem for three speaking voices " touch and go " to the stage. Actors Sophie Holman premiered his "Sight Unseen -- a theatre piece for one performer "at New York's www.bowerypoetryclub.com, and Hermann Eppert and McDonagh did a film version in Berlin which can be seen on HERMPERT GOOGLE +. He has done tow limited edition books with painter www.garybukvnik.com . And he worked with 3 ace videographers -- Donovan Bauer, Peter Hibdon, and Jose Luis Garcia Nava -- on his first film ALEX NORTH VIVA ZAPATA! 2010 which he wrote and directed, and which premiered 3 May 2010 in Puebla, Mexico, with www.onixensamble.com playing live to it..
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MusicPalo Alto,
Virgil Thomson used to say that the French played Brahms better than the Germans, and maybe the Austrians play Americans better than Americans. This seemed to be the case when the brilliant American conductor Dennis Russell Davies, who has been ...
MusicSan Francisco,
The first time I saw Lebanese-French pianist-composer Rami Khalife and Syrian clarinetist-composer Kinan Azmeh play together was in 2006 at La Pena in Berkeley where I had a revelation. Music is first and foremost sound and everything we think about ...
MusicSan Francisco,
It's never good to live in the past, but sometimes we have to, even though as our latest catch phrase would have it " it is what it is. " These are some of the thoughts which came to ...
MusicSan Francisco,
Composer-performers were all the rage in nineteenth century Europe. Liszt wowed big crowds with his miraculous technique, and so did Chopin, but the less flashy piano concert tours of Brahms and Clara Schumann were big draws plus their bread and ...
MusicBerkeley,
An out of town visitor always excites interest, even envy, and Philharmonia's music director and Finnish-born conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen's return visit to his former California turf certainly did, and with three programs, including two by former Angeleno Igor Stravinsky ...
MusicBerkeley,
Life is complicated. More than one thing is going on whether we like it or not. This could be a definition of music too because it's a celebration and a leave-taking and we're always doing both. We say hello as ...
Film
We all want to be loved. We all want to belong. But what do you do if your house is bombed and everyone in it dies? Do you become bitter, or take the high road? And what do you do ...
MusicSan Francisco,
Solo piano recitals aren't that frequent even in a fairly sophisticated town like San Francisco. Sure, we have them at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and high profile international pianists presented by SF Performances. But the only real venue ...
Art & ArchitectureSan Francisco,
Appearances are deceiving or are they? When we see something for the first time do we really see it and if so can we see it again as if for the first time? Can beauty be pinned down like ...
MusicSan Francisco,
A "dark" subject drawn from a famous book. A US premiere from an opera from the other side of the pond. Prestige. Glamour.
Well, many operas and films aren't that different from people.They look or sound profound, but aren't. ...
