|  | | Violinist Eva Ingolf and Visual artist Ektoras Binikos in collaboration. | | | | Saturday, July 31, 2010
8:00 pm
Spencertown Academy Arts Center,Spencertown NY.
http://www.spencertownacademy.org/
Route 203
The Program:
J.S.BACH: PARTITA NO.2 IN D MINOR for solo violin
(With video projections created by Ektoras Binikos)
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA:
TANGO ETUDE for solo violin.
ABBA LABBA LA : An Icelandic folk song
interpreted for solo violin by Eva Ingolf (With a video projection
created by Ektoras Binikos)
The Partita in D minor for solo
violin (BWV 1004) by Johann Sebastian Bach was written during the period
1717–1723 and some scholars suggest it was written in memory of Bach's
first wife, Maria Barbara Bach shortly after he returned from a trip
abroad to discover that she had died in his absence.. One of the most
important pieces in the solo violin repertory concludes with the 5th
movement “Ciaccona”.
The Ciaccona is considered a pinnacle of the
solo violin repertoire in that it covers every aspect of violin-playing
known during Bach's time and thus it is among the most difficult pieces
to play for that instrument.
A strong common theme is shared between
the first four movements. In the Allemande, there is a hint at the
repeated bass, which from then on continues to haunt the piece until it
makes its full appearance in the Ciaconna.
Violinist Eva Ingolf
and visual artist Ektoras Binikos are collaborating to bring this piece
into a new light. Both artists perceive the work as a piece that echoes
the full circle of life and “that very point to one end, which is
always present” to use the words of T.S.Eliot. That point being the
constant possibility of our own demise, our own death...within the
dance, the fanfare of life.
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