DJ MONSTA AND THE SYMPHONIC FACTOR

15 MARCH AT 19.00, THE GREAT GUILD
DJ MONSTA AND THE SYMPHONIC FACTOR

STRING QUARTET: ILZE KIRSANOVA, RAIMONDS MELDERIS, LIENE BEITĀNE, AINĀRS PAUKŠĒNS
DJ MONSTA – ELECTRONICS
LAIMA JANSONE – KOKLES, ELECTRONICS
EGILS UPATNIEKS – OBOE

Programme:
Rolands Kronlaks Conversion for oboe and string quartet

Alfred Schnittke String Quartet no. 3

Laima Jansone New work for string quartet, DJ, kokle and electronics

Rabih Abou–Khalil Arabian Waltz for string quartet and DJ

Laima Jansone New work for string quartet, DJ, kokle and electronics Rabih Abou–Khalil Arabian Waltz for string quartet and DJ You will hear Khalil’s Arabian world music, Kronlaks’s musical conversations and a fitting quartet by Schnittke with reverberations of renaissance (Orlande de Lassus sacral music), a ghost of Beethoven’s classicism (The Great Fugue, op. 133), and an exposition of postmodernism (Shostakovich’s monogram DSCH). Laima Jansone, author of new work, will also participate in the performance with acoustic and electric kokles, gongs and bells, as well as DJ Monsta whose intellectual diversions continually avouch his great taste and boundless creativity.