Tone! Art – bilder fra et piano

Tone Klang is passionately obsessed with the composer Modest Mussorgsky's famous work Pictures at an Exhibition.On stage we meet Tone together with the world's best pianist, the Russian Natasha Pavlova. Together they take the audience into a terrific musical and strong visual universe, where shadow play and video animations lead Tone and Natasha through past and present.The music is played, interpreted, gestured, joked with, cried and sung.The performance wants to break some conventions associated with classical music, for many associated with weight and seriousness associated with an adult world; boring, demanding and not cool at all. Tone! Art - images from a piano is a performance that surprises, delights and arouses curiosity in an intelligent, whimsical way that makes classical music as easy to accept as ....... The performance is supported by: Arts Council Norway/Kunstløftet, SPENN.NO, Telemark Fylkeskommune, Porsgrunn Kommune and Fond for Utøvende Kunstnere.Excerpts of the following musical works will be performed during the performance: Pictures at an Exhibition-Mussorgsky/Tomita, Publisher: Warner/Chapell Music Scandinavia AB, Ray Barretto- Extrait de l´album La Cuna, Yoel Levi, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (orch.Ravel), Friendly Rich-Extrait de l´album Pictures at an exhibition, Emerson, Lake and Palmer- Extrait de l´album Pictures at an exhibition, Hugh Lawson trio- Extrait de l´album Colour, Leonard Slatkin, Nashville Symphony Orchestra (arr. L. Stokowski), Trevor Rabin-Extrait de l´album 90124.