"Portrait and a Dream"
A New Opera by Brian Petuch
August 7 at 6 p.m.
A workshop production, live on the outdoor stage at the Arts Center at Duck Creek, 127 Squaw Road, East Hampton. Performed by the new music ensemble Contemporaneous.
Saturday, August 7 at 6 p.m. Rain date August 8
Free. No reservations required. Bring a lawn chair and a friend.
The Arts Center at Duck Creek presents an eight-piece workshop performance of "Portrait and a Dream," a new opera about the life and work of Jackson Pollock. The opera takes its title from a 1953 Pollock painting. Click here to listen to a teaser.
Jackson Pollock, Portrait and a Dream, 1953. Enamel and oil on canvas, 4'10 1/8" x 11'2 1/2"
© The Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Using interviews with Pollock's contemporaries from the Pollock-Krasner Study Center's oral history collection and weaving in images of his iconic work, composer Brian Petuch builds a musical imagining of the creative life of this compelling artist. Electronic music blends with vocals and acoustic instruments to present an evocative sense of Pollock’s place in both the present and the past.
Described as “narratively limitless... peaceful, violent, and transcendent” by American Composers Forum, Brian Petuch's music inhabits extreme contrasts of reflection, celebration, and irreverence. His works have premiered at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, 911 Memorial at Liberty Park, MASS MoCA, the Joyce Theatre and other venues.

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