How can a European-trained composer approach the encounter with a performer who belongs to a different culture and, through the latter, how can he manage to encounter another, even more remote, challenging culture? Does modern Art Music demand a specific political correctness, academic integrity or ethic codes in order to cross cultural bridges? Otherwise, is music itself a bridge between, above and beyond cultures? To what extent a new, non-commercial composition could still be a relevant fact in the life of a campus community?
Composer Professor Andreoni and performer Professor Anne Harley will try to answer these and other questions about the making of “Bardo”, for Voice and electric Tanpura: a recently completed new piece by Italian Fulbright Scholar in Residence Roberto Andreoni, based on selected lines from the Tibetan Book of the Dead. At the end of the presentation, Professor Harley performs the piece.