Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica: Confrontations With Two Worlds
Program

Georgs Pelecis (1947)
“Flowering Jasmine” for violin, vibraphone, and string orchestra

Philip Glass (1937)
Violin Concerto No. 2 „The American Four Seasons”

*During the piece by P. Glass you will see video projections by Jonas Mekas (*1922), a filmmaker, poet and artist of Lithuanian origin who has often been called “the godfather of American avant-garde cinema,” Rimas Sakalauskas (*1985), youngest generation video artist from Lithuania, Adam Magyar (*1972), Berlin-based Hungarian photographer, and Pingo van der Brinkloev, Danish high end visual effects artist.

Intermission

“Russia: Masks and Faces”

A joint video project by Gidon Kremer (violin), Maxim Kantor (painter), and Kremerata Baltica based on the music by M. Mussorgsky (“Pictures at an exhibition”), I. Loboda and V. Silvestrov.