Hesketh Premiere
The Ensemble contemporain de Montréal has decided to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the founding of Quebec by commissioning Schott composer Kenneth Hesketh to write a new work for ensemble and film in collaboration with filmmaker Jacqueline Passmore. The whole project involves three composers and three film makers from three historically linked sea-ports – Québec, Montréal and Liverpool. Theatre of Attractions (Diptych for film) will be premiered on Tuesday 11th March at the Place des Arts in Montréal, Canada and subsequently toured to Québec and Lennoxville.The artistic partnership between Liverpool born Hesketh, who is currently the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic’s Composer in the House, and Passmore who is based in Liverpool seeks to present images from and aspects of the history of their city at the turn of the 20th century. Scored for woodwind, piano, strings, an extended array of percussion and some more unusual instruments such as an Acme Siren Horn and a Fly Fishing Reel, Hesketh’s 22 minute score for 7 players calls for the juxtaposition of some extreme instrumental colours and textures.
“Using footage by the Lumière brothers and Edwardian film makers Sagar & Mitchell in the manner of objets trouvée, the original visual narrative is deformed and extended by the addition of contemporary footage. The city [Liverpool] is shown in all its various shades of urban flux, producing imagery both fragile and vibrant. The musical narrative, equally capricious, often runs contrary to the visual suggestion. Together, such filmic and musical figures are allowed to orbit one another, providing an arena where they may collide or even merge to form strikingly beautiful or even starkly aggressive new forms.” Kenneth Hesketh.
Hesketh – Profile(02/28/2008)
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