- Friday | January 16 | 7:00 PM
- Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts
- 800 Bagby. Houston TX 77002
- 713-524-5050 | boxoffice@dacamera.com
- Additional performance Saturday, January 17
- Duration: 60 minutes
Sonia Wieder-Atherton, cello
Sarah Rothenberg, piano
Images: Chantal Akerman
Concept and direction: Chantal Akerman and Sonia Wieder-Atherton
Music of Ravel, Rachmaninoff, Boris Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Martinů, Janáček, Bartók, Schnittke and Prokofiev
Following acclaimed sold-out performances in Paris’s Cité de la musique, Brussels and Lisbon, French-American cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton and pianist Sarah Rothenberg bring Wieder-Atherton and filmmaker Chantal Akerman’s D’Est en musique to the US, in conjunction with a retrospective of Akerman’s films at the Museum of Modern Art and a screening of Akerman’s film Golden Eighties on January 9 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. (Listing with tickets coming soon to mfah.org/films.)
DACAMERA joins forces with Paris’s La Philharmonie to offer this poetic and evocative interweaving of image and music, where Chantal Akerman’s scenes of eastern Europe and Russia after the fall of the Berlin Wall merge hauntingly with works of Rachmaninoff, Janáček, Chopin, Martinů, Schnittke and others. The interplay of music and image magically transports us to another place and time.
Philharmonie de Paris
In partnership with Chantal Akerman Foundation, Cinematek Brussels
2024 Premiere: Salle des Concerts Cité de la musique – Philharmonie de Paris
“From the Baroque to the contemporary, whenever Sonia Wieder-Atherton takes on a challenge it is like diving body and soul into the ocean of captive sounds we call music.”
— Le Monde
“Playing with eloquence and poetic intensity, she grabbed our attention and kept us enthralled”
— San Francisco Classical Voice on Sarah Rothenberg
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