Rouse: Seeing & Kabir Padavali

Rouse: Seeing & Kabir Padavali

• Seeing Kabir Padavali

Winner of a Pulitzer Prize and a GRAMMY® Award, Christopher Rouse is one of Americas most prominent composers of orchestral music, creating a body of work perhaps unequalled in its emotional intensity. Conceived from the start as differing from a traditional piano concerto, Seeing brings together seemingly disparate elements to explore the notion of sanity through the music of Robert Schumann and Skip Spence, swinging between extremes of consonance and dissonance, stability and instability, to create a disorientating and hallucinatory work seen through the lens of mental illness. Kabir Padavali or Kabir Songbook presents a range of the great Indian poets religious concerns, from extraordinarily beautiful ecstasy to impishly humorous allegories.