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Parola e musica nel tempo di Avvento 2021 2°- Simone Weil (thoughts and music for Advent 2021 2°- Simone Weil) {Italian}

Comunita' Pastorale Santi Magi (in colllaborazione con Centro Culturale delle Basiliche) watch
  • Antonio Gargiulo, voce recitante,
  • Matteo Galli, improvvisazioni musicali all’ organo,
  • Chiara Gibillini, elaborazione testi regia,
  • Marco Elli, riprese e montaggio video

“The Death of Simone Weil” (Part 4: Saint Julien)

Darrell Katz (music), Paula Tatarunis (text), Simone Weil (text) watch

JCA Orchestra

XIII. The Swan (for Simone Weil)

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Camille Saint-Saëns’ The Carnival of the Animals

“The Death of Simone Weil” (Part 1: Gone Now)

Darrell Katz (music), Paula Tatarunis (text), Simone Weil (text) watch

JCA Orchestra

“The Death of Simone Weil” (Part 2: Renault)

Darrell Katz (music), Paula Tatarunis (text), Simone Weil (text) watch

JCA Orchestra

“The Death of Simone Weil” (Part 3: November 1938)

Darrell Katz (music), Paula Tatarunis (text), Simone Weil (text) watch

JCA Orchestra

The Death of Simone Weil (jazz perf.)

Darrell Katz (composer) Rebecca Shrimpton, Jazz Composers Alliance (JCA) Orchestra Abby, and Norm Group listen

Simone Weil was a Jew obsessed with Christian and Buddhist worldviews, a mystic who claimed to have visions of a realm beyond reality, and a reclusive philosopher who starved herself to death in 1941.

With music by Darrell Katz and text by Paula Tatarunis, “The Death of Simone Weil” deals with wild imagination, German occupation, desire, fishing, and the Pope. Weil’s story unfolds like a surreal jazz improvisation that seamlessly mixes modern composition and the entire jazz legacy into a mature and personal style.

The alto voice of Rebecca Shrimpton effortlessly captures the subtle shadings of the starkly beautiful text. Boston’s powerfully virtuosic Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra accompanies with fistfuls of fire.

“The Death of Simone Weil” stands out in the jazz vocal tradition in terms of both scale and ambition, and whose depth and economy of expression are worthy of the subject. All in all, it’s an exciting soirée with the far-out, the insane, and the beautifully strange.

“The Character of Don Giovanni in Mozart’s Opera”

Diogenes Allen

in Dunaway, John M. & Springsted, Eric. O., The Beauty that Saves: Essays on Aesthetics and Language in Simone Weil, Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, pp. 193-183

“Simone Weil and Music”

Michel Sourisse

in Dunaway, John M. & Springsted, Eric. O., The Beauty that Saves: Essays on Aesthetics and Language in Simone Weil, Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, pp. 123-148