In Translation: A bold new collaboration by cellist Frances-Marie Uitti, composer/vocalist Lisa Bielawa & poet Christian Hawkey February 13, 2011

Cellist Frances-Marie Uitti, composer/vocalis Lisa Bielawa, and poet Christian Hawkey will present a new collaboration, In Translation, a magic combination of three strong voices: Hawkey's whimsical yet deeply intimate word worlds; Uitti's luxurious cello sonorities and bold improvisational palette; and vocalist Bielawa's responsiveness to both text and timbre along with a composer's impulse towards architectural thinking. Bielawa and Uitti will each perform Berio's Sequenza for voice and Xenakis’ Kottos from 1977 for solo cello. After, Bielawa and Uitti will leave the room while Hawkey reads recent work written for this performance. When Bielawa and Uitti return, Hawkey will hand the new poems over to them, and the half hour of improvisation will begin. The words will be already familiar to the audience, but interpreted on the spot by Bielawa and Uitti.

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