Pléiades

Western Canada Tour

Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 8:00pm

New Works Calgary
The Eckhardt-Gramatté Concert Hall
Rozsa Center
University of Calgary

During its Western Canada tour, Sixtrum presents a repertoire made up of major percussion percussion works which could be considered as Sixtrum's "classics", and account for the most often requested by different concert producers: Aikea and Pulau Dewata by Claude Vivier, Third Construction by John Cage ands the Peaux movement from Pléiades by Iannis Xenakis.

PROGRAMME

John Cage	Third Construction
Claude Vivier	Aikea - cinq chansons pour percussion (orch. Pierre Béluse)
	Pulau Dewata (orch. Fabrice Marandola)
Iannis Xenakis	Pléïades (mouv. Peaux)

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