JONATHAN HARVEY (b. 1939)      

Mortuos plango, vivos voco (1980)

• Miller Puckette, sound design

PHILIPPE MANOURY (b. 1952)

            En écho (1993-94)

            La Rivière

            Un jardin

            Broadway

            Mea Lux

            Betty

            Mon visage

            La Table

• Miller Puckette, sound design
• Juliana Snapper, soprano

ARTIST BIOS

• Miller Puckette is best known for authoring the graphical synthesis environment for interactive media, MaxMSP. He was a member of MIT's Media Lab from its inception until 1987, and a researcher at IRCAM (l'Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Musique/Acoustique, founded by composer and conductor Pierre Boulez). Puckette joined the Music Department of the University of California, San Diego in 1994, and is now Associate Director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA). He is currently working on a free, open source real-time software system for live musical and multimedia performances called Pure Data ("Pd"), in collaboration with artists/researchers/programmers worldwide. His book Theory and Techniques of Electronic Music is freely available for download and online browsing.

• Soprano Juliana Snapper specializes in intermedia and dramatic music that pushes the physical and expressive limits of the operatic voice. She completed her undergraduate studies in opera at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music before returning to California to pursue her doctorate in experimental music and musicology at the University of California, San Diego. Since 2005 she has performed and installed work in numerous international festivals including Dramatyzny Festival Migracje (Poland), TRAMA (Portugal), Performa05 (NYC), the Ojai Music Festival (California), and at galleries and museums including X Initiative (NY), Machine Project, (LA) PS1/MoMA (NY), and the Guggenheim Museum (NY). Her work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the British Arts Council, the Metropolitan Opera Council, the University of California Center for Humanities, and the Durfee Foundation.
  

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The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts and the St. Louis Symphony are engaged in an ongoing collaboration in which a series of chamber concerts are presented in the Pulitzer building. The aim of this collaboration is to explore with musical means the unique possibilities Tadao Ando’s space provides: an intimate and contemporary setting to experience music, art and architecture. Works are selected by Music Director David Robertson in relation to exhibitions on view and are performed by members of the St. Louis Symphony.