Renée Fleming and the Boston Symphony Orchestra Perform Dutilleux's Le temps l'horloge in US Premiere

Following a successful world premiere at the Saito Kinen Festival in Matsumoto, Japan, Henri Dutilleux's new work Le temps l'horloge makes its way to Boston for the US premiere on November 29. A setting of poems by the 20th-century French poets Jean Tardieu and Robert Desno, the US premiere of Le temps l'horloge will be performed by Renée Fleming, for whom the work was written, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the direction of James Levine. The texts by Jean Tardieu, from his poem of the same name, play with words like ‘temps' and ‘horloge' to convey the slipping of time, and Dutilleux skillfully transfers this intellectual game to music. Le temps l'horloge saw its world premiere at the hands of the Saito Kinen Orchestra under the baton of Seiji Ozawa on September 6 and is the result of a joint commission by the Saito Kinen Festival, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Orchestre National de France.

The BSO's run of Le temps l'horloge commences on Thursday November 29 at 8PM in Boston's Symphony Hall, with two more performances on November 30 and December 1. Following the Boston performances, Ms. Fleming and the BSO will perform the work at Carnegie Hall on Monday, December 3.

Henri Dutilleux
Le temps l'horloge (2007)
for soprano and orchestra
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9'

For more information on the life and work of Henri Dutilleux please visit www.schott-music.com.

For more information on the BSO's performance of Le temps l'horloge, go to www.bso.org.

For information on the performance at Carnegie Hall, please visit www.carnegiehall.org.

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