A Lecture by Anne La Berge

“Brokenheart” is a new work for the European Bridges Ensemble (EBE) ensemble and the Dutch LOOS ensemble. In the spring of 2007 I was asked by the EBE to create a work for the Music in the Global Village conference. Quite soon after Peter van Bergen, the director of LOOS, asked me to create a work for sax, piano and percussion which would include improvisation and technology. It seemed to be a somewhat farfetched, but exciting idea to combine the two commissions. So I did.

As part of this lecture/presentation I will show examples of “Brokenheart”, explain how it provides an improvisation setting for 2 or more players using Georg Hajdu’s quintet.net environment and discuss how it applies to other works of mine.

Broken Heart Syndrome, a work for the EBE and the LOOS ensemble. Paper by Anne La Berge