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Take notice Dallas avant-garde fans, we don’t get chances like this very often. Aventures and its slightly more structured “sequel” Nouvelles Aventures are amongst Gyorgy Ligeti’s most fascinating works. Composed for three singers and instrumental septet, these miniature anti-operas (what the composer termed “mimodramas”) are equal parts haunting, hilarious, and otherworldly. Complete with an imagined, almost animalistic language, these pieces present a non-sequitur drama concerning five emotions (ranging from desire to terror), each personified at different times by the three singers. Absurd, even deliciously grotesque, this is one modern masterstroke for which the term abstract isn’t nearly strong enough. Guest Patrick Dupré Quigley conducts a program that also includes works by Mason Bates, Mayke Nas and Igor Santos. To top it off: the event, held at Caruth Auditorium (6101 Bishop Blvd.), is free. Be there at 8 p.m. Thursday. More info at smu.edu/meadows.
Thu., Nov. 13, 8 p.m., 2014
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