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Preview Performance: Eliot meets Britten! An Immersive Dialogue Across Art Forms

A RiverArts Event

What happens when well established artists ask: “What if we try something new?” Come to Hudson Valley Books for Humanity to find out!

 

 T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, and Benjamin Britten’s Suite for Cello 1, op 72 will be performed together in a chamber like setting, encircled by the audience. Poetry and music, intertwine, underscore, and respond to one another, deepening our experience of these singular artistic masterpieces.  After the performance, we will hold a talkback for audience to ask questions of the artists.

The talkback will be joined by Professor Neil Arditi of Sarah Lawrence University and will be led by RiverArts, Artist Conversations Artistic Director and Producer, Marie-Louise Miller.

 

We hope you will join us on February 12th and be part of the process! We are very excited to bring this preview performance to Bookstore for Humanity. This is an opportunity for us to experiment as we develop this piece for Premiere.

We will premiere the event on March 26th, 3pm @ 145 Palisades, Dobbs Ferry.

 

Tickets for February 12th, 3 pm, are $ 15.00. Please click here to register.

 

About the Artists

Edoardo Ballerini is a two-time winner of the Audio Publishers Association’s Best Male Narrator Audie Award. Among many screen credits, he is best known for his roles in The Sopranos, and the film Dinner Rush. In 2022, Mr. Ballerini was commissioned by the Estate of T.S. Eliot to record the "Centenary Edition" of "The Waste Land," and has subsequently done several public readings of the work. For more information on the artist, please visit: edoardoballerini.com.

Peter Seidenberg [cellist and Artistic Director of RiverArts’ Chamber Music Series] has played in major halls throughout the US, Europe, and Asia, and served as principal cellist with the Century Orchestra of Osaka. He was a founding member of the critically acclaimed Elements Quartet which created groundbreaking commissioning projects of 30 composers. He is the cellist for the Oracle Trio, The Queen’s Chamber Band, and the New York Chamber soloists. For more information on the artist, please visit: peterseidenberg.com

About the Artist Conversation Series RiverArts creates opportunities to amplify the artistic voice, bringing insight and delight to our community. We are proud to spotlight leading voices in art, music, poetry, dance, and theater.

Under the direction of Marie Louise-Miller, our Artist Conversation series offers a chance to get up close and personal with artists. The Conversation Series seeks to illuminate the process of creativity across all forms of art, from the fine artist to performance artist. Recent events have featured Malcolm MacDougall on the reimagination of material and form in sculpture, Maxine Sherman and Bennett Rink of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, and an exploration of Spirituals and their stories with soprano Yolanda F. Johnson. Further, RiverArts creates immersive, interdisciplinary explorations in art. RiverArts proudly presented the world premiere of Braiding, an original performance piece integrating music, dance, art, and video directed by Marie-Louise Miller.

About RiverArts

RiverArts inspires Hudson River communities in lower Westchester County to come together through art. RiverArts’ year-round season of events and programming includes our two signature free, multi-village artists’ Studio Tour and Music Tour; an annual dance concert; a three-part Chamber Music series; theater performances; and smaller community events such as Drink & Draw, Salon Sundays, Swing Dance night, artist conversations and pop-up concerts; plus Music Education and its SummerArts camp for kids of all ages.  

  

For over half a century, RiverArts has been the catalyst that connects performers, musicians, and art-makers with Rivertowns audiences. We believe in the power of art to express, transform, and bring joy to our lives and our community.    

  

Please visit RiverArts on-line to read more about its mission, core values and programming calendar. 

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