ANIMALS!

Sonnets & Sonatas

Getty Center
Saturday, February 24, 2018, 7:30 pm

How do artists and composers evoke, imitate, mock, or pay tribute to animals, which are both our
best companions and, at the same time, radically different from us? This lecture-concert
featuring a presentation by Laure Murat, professor of French and Francophone Studies at UCLA,
and performances of works by Rimsky-Korsakov, Fauré, Rameau, Rossini, Cage, Gershwin, and
others, attempts to answer this question. The program features the first U.S. appearance of
Vincent Penot, clarinetist of the Opéra de Paris, who performs three pieces on the program.

Animals! is part of a festival organized by the Center for European and Russian Studies on the
topic of animals viewed by European artists. It includes screenings selected by UCLA Film and
Television Archive at the Billy Wilder Theater in the Hammer Museum during the weekend of
February 23-25, 2018. Each movie will be introduced by philosopher and ethologist Vinciane
Despret, professor at the University of Liège, Belgium.

Program

Rimsky-Korsakov, The Tale of Tsar Saltan, “Flight of the Bumblebee”, 1899-1900: 3’25
Clarinet: Vincent Penot
Piano: Rosalind Wong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CkK-LM6Oe0
Gabriel Fauré, Butterfly, op. 77, 1898: 3’
Cello: Hillary Smith
Piano: Rosalind Wong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKYqThIboBU

Rameau, New Suites for Harpsichord Pieces, “The Hen”, 1728: 4’

Piano: Rosalind Wong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcXY7dyK7eQ

Olivier Messiaen, Quartet for the end of time, III: Abyss of the birds, 1940: 8’
Clarinet: Vincent Penot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UwLWvjBcj4

Schubert, Piano Quintet in A Major, “The Trout” – IV: Theme & Variations, Andantino, 1819:
7’30
Piano: Rosalind Wong
First violin: Ambroise Aubrun
Viola:
Cello: Hillary Smith
Bass:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaSJdO64GKU

John Cage, Litany for the Whale, 1980: 5’ to 8’ (excerpt to be chosen)

Tenor:
Tenor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qSy-0y6DMs

Gioacchino Rossini (attributed to), Humorous duet for two cats, 1825: 4’30
Soprano: Danielle Palomares
Soprano:
First violin: Ambroise Aubrun
Second violin:
Viola:
Cello: Hillary Smith
Bass:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i08Zsaldocc

Gershwin, Walking the dog, 1937: 3’30

Clarinet: Vincent Penot
Cello: Hillary Smith
Piano: Rosalind Wong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t67SdkYubs4