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The Tree of Life

BAM Howard Gilman Opera House

Nov 18 & 19 at 7:30pm

Running time: approx. two hours & 20 minutes, no

intermission

Written and directed by Terrence Malick

Wordless Music Orchestra

Presented in association with Wordless Music

Conducted by

Ryan McAdams

Robert Fleitz, piano

Charles Love, boy soprano

Jennifer Zetlan, soprano2016 BAM Next Wave Festival#TheTreeofLife Season Sponsor:Support for the Signature Artist Series provided by

Howard Gilman Foundation.

Brooklyn Academy of Music

Alan H. Fishman,

Chairman of the Board

William I. Campbell,

Vice Chairman of the Board

Adam E. Max,

Vice Chairman of the Board

Katy Clark,

President

Joseph V. Melillo,

Executive Producer

“The nuns taught us there are two ways

through life: the way of nature, and the way of grace. You have to choose which one you'll follow."

With these words - the first we hear spoken by

the character of Mrs. O'Brien (Jessica Chastain) in Terrence Malick's

The Tree of Life

- the film quietly lays out the conict and structure of the story to follow, which takes us as far back as the Big Bang, and into a vision of the after- life. Along the way,

The Tree of Life

pauses to consider the emergence of life on a microscopic level; the evolution of species; the immensities of space and time; and the earliest instance of mercy. Just as Malick's earlier films take the form of an irremediable confrontation - Kit Carruthers and Holly Sargis on the run in

Badlands

; Bill and the farmer in

Days of Heaven

; the men of

C Company and the Japanese resistance in

The

Thin Red Line

- the moral conict in

The Tree of

Life is between the binaries of nature and grace.

The way of grace is represented in the film twice

over: by Mrs. O'Brien, whose ethereal presence is equal parts humanity, empathy, and warmth; and by the kind, gentle, middle O'Brien son,

R.L., whose death in Vietnam at 19 opens the

story: “Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries." The way of nature is also represented twice: most obviously, by Mr. O'Brien (Brad Pitt) - whose cruelty, resentment, and self-loathing stand in marked contrast to both his family, and to the classical music he once believed himself destined - but also in the loom ing presence of the natural and unnatural world around us, alternately terrifying and sublime in its magnitude: “Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it too. Likes to lord it

over them. To have its own way. It finds reasons to be unhappy when all the world is shining around it. And love is smiling through all things."

As in all of Malick's late films, we hear music

in nearly every scene and important moment in

The Tree of Life

. The first movement of Mahler's first symphony functions as a recurring motif, as does the contemporary Russian composer

Giya Kancheli's

Morning Prayers

, for chamber or- chestra and boy soprano. Memorably, Smetana's

Die Moldau

represents the transcendence of a life lived with love, as the three O'Brien boys and their mother play in the magic hour of their Texas small town, as designed and captured by Jack

Fisk and Emmanuel Lubezki. Of the 20 compos

ers whose music is in the film, the two heard the longest are the English mystic John Tavener, whose

Funeral Canticle

and

Resurrection in

Hades play at the very start, and Berlioz, whose

Requiem

is excerpted, unforgettably, at the film's conclusion.

Tonight's US live score premiere of

The Tree of

Life was produced in partnership by Wordless

Music and Fox Searchlight, who generously

helped to assemble a new, score-less cut of the film with the orchestra and choir selections removed, and only the original dialogue and sound effects remaining. (At the composer's request, Alexandre Desplat's music has not been orchestrated and will be heard in its pre-recorded version.) We are especially grateful to Fred

Chandler and Fox for their help in making this

new print, and to Nicolas Gonda and Terrence

Malick for their trust in bringing this project

to life. As the film tells us, to the celestial music of Berlioz: “The only way to be happy is to love.

Unless you love, your life will ash by."

Ronen Givony

Note

Fox Searchlight Pictures

Photo: Yannick Grandmont

Fox Searchlight Pictures

The Tree of Life - Wordless Music Orchestra

VIOLIN

Pauline Kim Harris,

concertmaster

Megan Atchley

Lauren Cauley

Tom Chiu

Jennifer Choi

Elizabeth Derham

Emily Popham Gillins

Josh Henderson

Patti Kilroy

Will Knuth

Laura Lutzke

Jessica McJunkins

Courtney Orlando

Yuki Numata Resnick

Gillian Rivers

Ben Russell

Mary Jo Stilp

Sarah Zun

VIOLA

Caleb Burhans

Jeanann DaraIsabel HagenCaitlin LynchKaren WaltuchErin Wight CELLO

Clarice Jensen

Clara Kennedy

Christine Kim

Rubin Kodheli

Lauren Radnofsky

Seth Parker Woods

BASS

Logan Coale

Patrick Duff

Florent Ghys

Eleonore Oppenheim

FLUTE

Domenica Fossati

Roberta Michel

Jessica SchmitzOBOE Michelle FarahChrista RobinsonArthur Sato

CLARINET

Vasko Dukovski

Bill Kalinkos

Eileen Mack

BASSOON

Alden Banta

Nanci Belmont

Sara Schoenbeck

HORN

Nathan Koci

Matt Marks

Jenny Ney

Kate Sheeran

Jason SugataTROMBONEMichael ClayvilleJames HirschfeldWilliam Lang

TRUMPET

Mike Gurfield

Sam Nester

Kyle Resnick

TUBA

John Altieri

HARP

Nuiko Wadden

PERCUSSION

Wilson Torres

TIMPANI

Victor Pablo

SOUND ENGINEER

Richie Clarke

PRODUCER

Ronen Givony

Score compiled and engraved by Conor Brown

Thank you: Nicolas Gonda, Terrence Malick, Fred Chandler, Jake Kinderman and the American Boychoir School, Conor Brown, Zan Emerson, Erica Frauman, Peggy Monastra, Miles Feinberg, and Chaz Ebert.

SOPRANO

Elizabeth Bates

Sarah Brailey

Madeline Healey

Mellissa Hughes

Jamie Jordan

Mary Mackenzie

Charlotte Mundy

Melanie Russell

Amanda Sidebottom

Elena WilliamsonALTOLuthien BrackettEric BrennerPatrick FennigWendy GilesCatherine HedbergKate MaroneyClifton MasseyTim ParsonsKirsten SollekAmaranta VieraTENORSteven BradshawTomas CruzPaul D'ArcyAndrew FuchsBrian GieblerMatt HensrudTim HodgesScott MelloJohn TirannoSteve WilsonBASSPaul AnAvery GriffinChris HerbertSteven HrycelakDominick InfererraRichard LippoldThomas McCargarAdam MenningaEdmund MillyJonathan WoodyCHORUS

The Tree of Life

MUSIC

COMPOSER

NAME

John Tavener

Funeral Canticle

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