Saturday, June 21; 7:00PM Click for Tickets Ty Bouque — Tonight—our last night—I want to linger with the presence that has so patiently haunted these last two weeks. Ruth Adler Schnee was a marvel, an inventor of patterns who wielded her pen with a freedom and...
Program Notes
Festival in Residence: Ann Arbor
Friday, June 20; 7:30PM Click for Tickets Ty Bouque — Tonight I want to dwell upon a decorative element of architecture, ornamental and so not strictly necessary (what art is?) and yet foundational to how we might hear this program. Among sculpture’s oldest techniques...
Festival in Residence: Windsor
Thursday, June 19; 7:00PM Click for Tickets Ty Bouque — I want to return to Vitruvius, whose treatise De architectura began this journey nearly two weeks ago. In the opening week we looked at two of the three arenas of design identified by the Roman architect; tonight...
Strata Echo
Tuesday, June 17; 7:00 PM Click for Tickets Ty Bouque — Tonight we return to that most fundamental of musical and architectural materials, the formal device par excellence: we return to lines. And we return to lines by way of the woman whose visual imagination and...
Negative Space
Sunday, June 15; 2:00PM Click for Tickets Ty Bouque — The most fundamental principle of design and form: an attention not to what is there but to what is not. Music is often colloquially understood (though there’s something much deeper behind the impulse) as an art of...
Textures
Thursday, June 12; 7:00 PM Click for Tickets Ty Bouque — Texture is about the particular way things feel; etymology, then, might be thought of as a kind of exercise in historical textures, the way sounds accrue intuitive feeling in the fabric knit by language and the...
Opening Night: Latticework
Sunday, June 8; 5:00 P.M. Seligman Performing Arts Center Click for Tickets Ty Bouque — There is a rare little word for all this. Its coinage lies buried in a dense architectural treatise (the first of its kind, really), drafted at the behest of Caesar Augustus. In...
Cornerstone
Saturday, June 14; 7:00PM at St. Hugo of the Hills Click for Tickets ©Ty Bouque — There is a reverence verging on mania endowed upon the cornerstone. Its sacred affection has nothing to do with its structural support or the quality of materials or even its scale. It...