Sidecar
is
anne hege and heather heise
*art songs for the modern day, cabaret for those who love charles ives*
Shows in
nyc and princeton, nj
november 2007
The Children's hour
Inspired by the eponymous song by Charles Ives, The Children's Hour is a 75 minute program produced by Sidecar featuring the music of Façade by William Walton, as well as art songs and piano pieces by Ives, John Cage, Jim Tenney, et al. Sidecar's original audio and visual design, which includes interactive electronics and sound processing, tape compositions, and video, provides a nervy counterpoint to vintage texts by Edith Sitwell and Henry Longfellow. The menagerie of game and play is an eight year old's imagination cracked open, punctuated by expert vocal and musical evocations of intrigue and nightmare: Between the dark and the daylight, comes a pause in the day's occupations that is known as Children’s Hour.
Monkeytown
Monday, November 5th at 8:30pm
58 N 3rd St
(btw. Kent & Wythe)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211
$5, reservations recommended
ffmup
Tuesday, November 6th at 9pm
Terrace Club
62 Washington Rd
Princeton, NJ
free
VIM
Tribeca
Thursday, November 8th at 7pm
Gallerie Icosahedron
27 North Moore St.
New York, NY 10013
$15-25 (student discount available)
video footage of "Children's Hour" as part of
the Chaple of the Chimes "Garden of Memories" Concert
sidecar is from 0:30-1:00 on this clip
more on sidecar
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audio samples from past programs performed by Sidecar:
Memories A by Charles Ives
The guide by Anne Hege
mouvement by Claude Debussy
Annabel Lee by Anne Hege
Lookin for honey by Kitty Brazelton
Recent Work
Sidecar is Anne Hege, vocalist and composer, and Heather Heise, pianist. Flirting
between art song recital and cabaret theatre, our programs incorporate soundtrack
compositions, video, and elements of interactive electronics. This is classical
vocal performance giddy under the influence of new technologies.
Extracted from the lyrics of the art songs
by Charles Ives, Benjamin Britten, Luciano Berio, Kitty Brazelton and Percy
Grainger, as well as from a poem by Edgar Allen Poe, the quasi-libretto of Shadow
and Silver/Sombra y Plata lies nestled inside an original electronic soundtrack
by Anne Hege:
The curtain is drawn and you peer expectantly through a window into her world, a world where Edgar Allen Poe reads bedtime stories, though he is interrupted by certain other composers who, like Magi, offer their own gifts of music and song. She treats these songs reverently--like treasures--as inspired by the exotic and pastoral as by the tales of scamps and lovers.
You watch her tuck Pan's flute under the strap of a stiletto and depart for the sea. She dances as if in a David Lynch movie, a minimalist jazz dance that charms the poets, the birds, and the pretty bees. She is loved; she is scorned; she is thrown into the waters. But she will not remain submerged.
Sitting in the far back corner of an old time opera cafe, she recollects the myth,
singing until you fall asleep at her feet, dream her dreams and sail her seas. In still and silence, against a counterpoint of Sunday matinée noise, you find yourself returned: tu regrésas a la tierra.
Shadow and Silver also features piano pieces by Ben Carson and Erik Satie and is performed in its entirety by Anne Hege (voice, flute) and Heather Heise (piano, voice, toy piano, accordion).