The first edition of our 2021 Watch it Burn! Composite Arts Series at the Art Gallery of Hamilton Pavilion (planned to take place at Irving Zucker Sculpture Garden, now forced to go indoors due to inclement weather, as per AGH procedure and Zula Board of Directors approval) includes the renowned Toronto pianist EVE EGOYAN performing the music of Erik Satie; delectable Montreal jazz duo SILVERVEST (KIM ZOMBIK — vocals; NICOLAS CALOIA — double bass); plus a screening of the marvellously entertaining documentary film SATIESFICTIONS – PROMENADES WITH ERIK SATIE.
LIMITED TO 60 AUDIENCE MEMBERS
ADMISSION:
$25 — advance purchase via Eventbrite
$30 — at the door for students, seniors, underwaged, artsworkers, & AGH members
$35 — at the door regular
[OUR ADMISSION POLICY: NO ONE WILL BE REFUSED ENTRY FOR LACK OF FUNDS]
AGH’s Irving Zucker Sculpture Garden
EVE EGOYAN
Toronto-based, internationally-acclaimed pianist EVE EGOYAN is one of the most active interpreters of music by living composers. Known for collaborations that span John Oswald to Linda Catlin Smith, Maria de Alvear to Michael Finnissy, her recording of the late Ann Southam's Simple Lines of Enquiry garnered glowing appraisals from the Wire, Maclean's, and the New Yorker's Alex Ross, who listed it among 10 Exceptional Recordings of 2009. She joins our series with a program that draws upon her Erik Satie repertoire following featured appearances at FIMAV - Victoriaville, Women from Space, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Other Minds, Klangspuren (Austria), Transart (Italy), and Toronto's Luminato.
SILVERVEST: ZOMBIK & CALOIA
The unique Montreal duo of double bassist NICOLAS CALOIA and vocalist KIM ZOMBIK offers an elegant, skeletal take on song and harnesses power of vulnerability. Echoing the sophisticated songcraft of everyone from Joni Mitchell to Laurie Anderson, and even the eerie jazz malaise Archie Shepp's collaboration with Jeanne Lee, Blasé, Caloia and Zombik distill their 30+ years of varied experience through this project to offer something that's at once palatable, and unclassifiable—minimalist in execution but robust in impact. Sitting between the carefully mapped-out and daringly freeform, between popular sensibilities and avant garde restlessness SILVERVEST's sonic identity is clear, palpably melodic, yet always leaves room for intuition and boundless exploration.
SATIESFICTIONS –
PROMENADES WITH ERIK SATIE
A film by Anne-Kathrin Peitz
[56:22 min]
Always armed with wisecracks, umbrella, and a bowler hat, Erik Satie was not only on the outside one of the strangest figures in the early 20th century French avant-garde; he was a composer, designer, church founder, PR pioneer, and master of witty remarks. In playful episodes, the documentary illuminates the overall phenomenon of Satie. His countless imaginary advertisements evolve into real commercials, and his drawings take on a life of their own as cartoons. Divas, dogs, puppets, and children, as well as pianists playing pianos stacked on top of each other are featured in scenic interludes, while performers turn into “musical furniture” in swimming pools, factories, or at train stations. Interwoven with accounts by Satie’s associates and music experts, the film offers a unique insight into Satie’s cosmos of word and sound.
With Jean Cocteau, Man Ray, Henri Sauguet, Georges Auric, Pierre Bertin, Virgil Thomson, Steffen Schleiermacher, GrauSchumacher Piano Duo, Jean-Pierre Armengaud and Patrick Le Mauff
This event was made possible with kind support from Canada Council for the Arts, Canadian Heritage, & the City of Hamilton in partnership with the Art Gallery of Hamilton.
SILVERVEST
SATIESFICTIONS — PROMENADES WITH ERIK SATIE