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Directed by Terrence Malick Wordless Music Orchestra
Presented in association with Wordless Music
More than 100 musicians and singers from the Wordless Music Orchestra perform live accompaniment to a special screening of Terrence Malick’s (Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line) 2011 masterpiece The Tree of Life, starring Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain. Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes and hailed by Roger Ebert as one of the 10 greatest films of all time, Malick’s dazzling formal achievement takes a tender portrait of a 1950s Texas family as the seed for a sweeping inquiry into cosmological existence. Music by Mahler, Berlioz, Brahms, Górecki, Mozart, and Couperin courses throughout this gorgeously shot hymn to the sacred within the secular, where time eternal merges with fallible human love.
PROGRAM NOTES
Conducted by Ryan McAdams Robert Fleitz, piano Jennifer Zetlan, soprano
“With disarming sincerity and daunting formal sophistication The Tree of Life ponders some of the hardest and most persistent questions, the kind that leave adults speechless when children ask them.”
— The New York Times
“...delivers truths that don’t go down easy. No one with a genuine interest in the potential of film would think of missing it.”
Howard Fishman’s new play about polymathic songwriter and outsider artist Connie Converse, who vanished without an audience or album to her name but left behind treasure trove of home recordings.
Fri, Dec 2, 2016
Fifty new songs from the Magnetic Fields.
Music
The Magnetic Fields: 50 Song Memoir (Program A)
The Magnetic Fields
(Program A) Stephin Merritt and his seven-member band celebrate his 50th birthday with two distinct programs of new songs, one for every year of his melodious existence.
Dec 7Dec 10, 2016
Live music meets stop-motion and documentary shorts.
Film
Brent Green and Sam Green: Live Cinema
Brent Green and Sam Green
A showcase of work by animator Brent Green and documentarian Sam Green, set to live music by Brendan Canty (Fugazi), James Canty (Nation of Ulysses), and others.