![]() It has been said that, although whimsical, the ideas were not without great potential. The film is accompanied by Bach’s Cello Suite No2 and envelopes and captures the viewers. It is based on sections, perspectives and vanishing points taken from each of the 16 etchings on display. It’s an invitation to delve into the dark side of Piranesi’s imagination. Factum Arte las, produced 3D animation, directed by Gregoine Dupond from the 1761 edition of the Carneci. The best way to see and understand the thought process of this grandeur is to enter his mind through an animation. They are described as capricci- ‘’whimsical aggregates of monumental architecture and ruin’’. His visions took on fantastic labyrinthian structures, epic in volumes. These later influenced Romantism and Surrelism. on Wisconsin Public Radio.However his most incredible work is The Prisons ( Carceri d’invenzione or ‘Imaginary Prisons’), a series of 16 prints that show enormous vaults and mighty machines. On Sunday, March 2, both the Mernier and the Bruckner pieces will be performed live at the Chazen as part of the art museum's regularly scheduled "Sunday Afternoon Live from the Chazen" broadcast at 12:30 p.m. Mernier will also present a pre-concert conversation in Mills Hall at 7 p.m., just before the performance. (for details and reservations visit or call 60.) The cost is $35. Two events with Mernier on the evening of March 1 include a dinner and cocktails with the composer at the Chazen Museum of Art, 750 University Ave. 27, the Pro Arte welcomes guests to an open rehearsal from 9 a.m.-noon in Mills Hall, during which the composer will coach the quartet. "Just like the other four commissions, this new work represents a beautiful and serious addition to the chamber music repertoire," says violist Sally Chisholm. composer in its centennial series, following collaborations with William Bolcom, John Harbison, Walter Mays and Paul Schoenfield. The Mernier commission also represents the first non-U.S. Pro Arte's list includes Samuel Barber's famous "Adagio for Strings," which the quartet premiered in Rome in 1936. The Madison-based quartet agrees with the composer, citing Mernier's work as a strong contribution to its long tradition of commissioning and premiering new work. "I know the commission is a very great symbol." "In the history of modern music, the Pro Arte Quartet is very important," Mernier says. According to Mernier, the Belgian connection is something that makes the String Quartet No. The Mernier commission also brings the Pro Arte full-circle to its Belgian roots, a course that will include several concert dates in Brussels in May 2014. Pro Arte also is the world's oldest continuously performing string quartet. By October of that year, the group had officially become the UW Pro Arte Quartet, making it the first artist ensemble-in-residence at any university. The Quatuor Pro Arte of Brussels, formed in 1911-12, was performing at the Wisconsin Union Theatre on the UW-Madison campus on May 10, 1940, when Belgium was overrun and occupied by Nazi forces, turning three of its original four musicians into war orphans. Mernier's work, the fifth Pro Arte centennial commission, was composed in honor of the quartet's Belgian heritage. Frequent Pro Arte collaborator and violist Samuel Rhodes, a member of the Juilliard String Quartet, will perform with the Pro Arte's four musicians on the Bruckner composition. 4, composed in 1772, and Bruckner's String Quartet in F Major, written in 1879. In addition to the Mernier premiere, the concert will include Haydn's String Quartet in D Major Opus 20, No. ![]() event is free and open to the public, with no tickets required. 3 will receive its world premiere by the Pro Arte on Saturday, March 1, in the Mills Concert Hall in the Mosse Humanities, 455 N. "The song is the model for all instrumentalists, and theoretical treatises in ancient music tell the players to imitate the voice in their performances." ![]() "My favorite instrument is the voice, because the singing voice is the most expressive of all instruments," says Mernier. 3, commissioned by the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Pro Arte Quartet as part of its ongoing centennial celebration, embraces a lyrical path that takes the composer in new directions. He believes firmly that there is no single right way to experience music - provided audience members are open to its messages. ![]() Belgian composer Benoît Mernier writes music he says communicates with audience members in a variety of ways.
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