The New York premiere of Time Flies, a new composition for large chamber ensemble by Bruce Adolphe, this Sunday April 23rd at Meet the Music, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's family concert series at Merkin Concert Hall.
Bruce Adolphe is a lecturer, a respected composer, and currently a radio personality. He is known to many New Yorkers as the impresario of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's Meet the Music family concert series, where he entertains and informs, often as Inspector Pulse the musical detective. At the Meet the Music program of April 23rd, Mr. Adolphe will present a new work for all ages called Time Flies. There are two shows, at 1:00 and again at 3:00.
Based on Eric Rohmann's wordless picture book, Time Flies tells the story of a little bird flying around a dinosaur exhibit in a natural history museum who fears for its life as it imagines itself trapped back in time during the age of the dinosaurs.
Much like Mr. Adolphe's earlier composition Oceanophony, Time Flies will be presented as a “multimedia” work, images from the book will be projected as the score is performed by the chamber ensemble. Mr. Adolphe has taken the story and sonically enlarged the scope of the narrative creating an independent musical experience that will challenge the imagination of both children and adults in the audience. The concert is for all ages (well, six and up... ).
An important part of the Meet the Music program are the post-performance question and answer sessions. For Time Flies, the composer will present an introduction to the music, and in the question and answer session both illustrator and composer will take the stage to discuss the interplay between images and music as techniques in storytelling.
Mr Adolphe talks about music, visual images and non-verbal communication. Also, important meetings in taxis and just what do they do with all those talented young people at the Chamber Music Society Two program?
“Time Flies is a really complex piece of music, I never write down to children. Kids are great New Music listeners. They listen very openly. If there is a narrative flow it makes it easier for them, but that's it, that's about all they need. If it has dramatic energy, and lots of color they're going to be there.”
