Saturday, October 18, 2008, 8:00 PM
Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center
Pre-concert talk, 7:00 PM

Conceived, directed and performed
by Sarah Rothenberg, pianist
Texts: Charles Baudelaire
Music: Frederic Chopin
Lighting designed by Jennifer Tipton
Video designed by Christopher Kondek

“the beautiful is always bizarre...” – Charles Baudelaire

A unique tapestry of sight and sound, Sarah Rothenberg’s Epigraph for a Condemned Book reveals the daring genius of Chopin’s piano works. In this original performance collage, fragments of Delacroix’s intense paintings, early photography and the provocative writings of Baudelaire interweave with Chopin’s music to magically evoke 19th-century Paris and its romantic spirit.

Read a poem by Baudelaire from his "condemned" book, The Flowers of Evil.

Presented in collaboration with the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts and Blaffer Gallery, in conjunction with Blaffer Gallery’s exhibition Damaged Romanticism (September 13-November 15, 2008). A Da Camera of Houston production, co-commissioned by Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven; University Musical Society, Ann Arbor; and Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Champaign-Urbana.

Subscribe now and pick your series of Da Camera's superb concerts. Make these great chamber music events part of your life. Full Season subscribers get the very best seats and conveniently renew them from season to season.