Sarah Rothenberg | "The Departing Landscape" | Morton Feldman - Palais de Mari (1986)

The Departing Landscape
A film conceived, directed and performed by pianist Sarah Rothenberg, filmed by John Carrithers in the Arts of the Ancient World gallery at the Menil Collection.
Morton Feldman: Palais de Mari (1986)
Sarah Rothenberg performs Morton Feldman’s work surrounded by treasures dating back to 2800 B.C.E. - talismans of a distant past that inspired the composer, and which have survived to today.
“I see the film as memorializing both this current moment and the idea of transitory time. The film has an elegiac mood, conceived and created during this unprecedented COVID pandemic. I think art is what can connect us during this time of isolation, it can reveal our common experience. Feldman’s music speaks to us in this moment of suspended time. It hovers between the ancient relics, our fragile present, and the unknowns that lie ahead. It takes us somewhere larger than ourselves.” - Sarah Rothenberg
"Entrancing" -- Alex Ross, The New Yorker
"Under Rothenberg’s exquisite touch, each pause in Feldman’s slowly unrolling scroll becomes suspenseful, each note within seems profound." -- Bachtrack
Learn more about Sarah Rothenberg and her career as performer, director, recording artist and writer at www.dacamera.c...

[@andrewlienhard6758]

Exquisite!