Who Is Jonas Mekas? | THE SHED

Jonas Mekas was a diarist and poet who used film to capture life as it’s lived—as he and his friends and strangers around him lived it. The Shed commissioned the late godfather of avant-garde film to create a cinematic artwork to accompany performances of Verdi’s “Messa da Requiem” by conductor Teodor Currentzis and the musicAeterna from November 19 to 24.

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Experience Verdi’s “Messa da Requiem,” one of classical music’s most virtuosic and transcendent works, in concert and in film. Electrifying conductor Teodor Currentzis and the 106-member orchestra and 80-member chorus musicAeterna from Perm, Russia, will take the stage in The Shed’s McCourt to perform Requiem. Following rapturous reviews at this summer’s Salzburg Festival, the performances mark Currentzis and musicAeterna’s North American debut.

A new cinematic artwork set to Verdi’s score by late, beloved filmmaker Jonas Mekas, and co-commissioned by The Shed and Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, will accompany the performances of Requiem and will be screened in the Level 4 Gallery. The work is a meditative tribute to Verdi’s masterpiece and an homage to the filmmaker himself, who passed away in January at the age of 96.
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