Picturing Performance
UNWRUNG: Aesthetics, History, Decoupling
UNWRUNG stages a dialogue between the visual arts and music in antiquity and modernity, exploring questions of historical reconstruction and the aestheticization of violence across time and artistic media.
John Lenti, Theorbo
Emi Ferguson, Flute
Ah Young Hong, Soprano
Miranda Cuckson, Violin
UNWRUNG stages a dialogue between the visual arts and music in antiquity and modernity, exploring questions of historical reconstruction and the aestheticization of violence across time and artistic media.
A group of extraordinary musicians including–Emi Ferguson, Ah Young Hong, John Lenti, & Miranda Cuckson–perform a program of Debussy, Lassus, Hersch, Machaut, Strozzi, & Zand.
Free admission. Reception to follow.
Made possible with support by the Deans of KSAS, the Deans of The Peabody Institute, the Departments of Classics, Composition and History of Art, and the Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe.
Organized by Jennifer Stager (Krieger School of Arts and Sciences) and Michael Hersch (Peabody Institute).
Program Booklet Watch Full Performance“Imagining [Utler’s] collection as an interweavement (Verflechtung), [this] program makes a similar statement, weaving breath, stone, and tears across time into a transhistorical lament.”
Jennifer Stager with composer Michael Hersch and soprano Ah Young Hong
"Air as Archive," a workshop with Emi Ferguson (Flute)
UNWRUNG: AESTHETICS, HISTORY, DECOUPLING
10.8.25 Complete Performance - Johns Hopkins University
Program Booklet
Download Program Booklet (PDF)“More than anything, I find these expressions from the past both haunting and beautiful…”
