BAM And Wordless Music Present Terrence Malick's VOYAGE OF TIME

BAM and Wordless Music present Terrence Malick's Voyage of Time with a live orchestral and choral performance of its powerful score. A "vast and visually overwhelming nature documentary" (The New Yorker) that was 30 years in the making, Voyage of Time is both a stunning visual fantasia and science documentary, capturing and envisioning the life cycle of the universe. It is an expansion of the "birth of the universe" segment from Malick's acclaimed 2011 film The Tree of Life.

The cosmic visual theme is accompanied by some of the most transcendental music in the Western canon-Bach's Mass in B Minor, Haydn's The Creation, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, Mahler's Symphony No. 2 ("Resurrection"), and Poulenc's Gloria. The live orchestra and chorus, with a narration by actor Lily James, will deliver their full sonic impact.

In Terrence Malick's film career, which spans almost half a century, he has made many acclaimed and groundbreaking movies including: Badlands (1973), winner of the Cannes Film Festival award for Best Director; Days of Heaven (1978); The Thin Red Line (1998), Oscar-nominated for Best Director and Best Screenplay; The New World (2005); The Tree of Life (2011), Oscar-nominated for Best Director and winner of the Palm d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival; To the Wonder (2012), King of Cups (2015); Voyage of Time (2016); and Song to Song (2017).

Wordless Music Orchestra is the house band of New York City's Wordless Music series, which was founded by non-musician Ronen Givony in 2006 and has since presented concerts in museums, churches, nightclubs, and outdoors, pairing artists from the sound worlds of so-called classical, electronic, and rock music. Comprising some of New York's most omnivorous young musicians and members of groups such as Alarm Will Sound, ACME, and Ensemble Signal, the orchestra has performed at the Sydney Opera House, Lincoln Center, BAM, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum, and Library of Congress, and collaborated with artists such as Jonny Greenwood, Paul Thomas Anderson, Jónsi Birgisson, Mica Levi, Max Richter, Jóhann Jóhannsson, John Cale, Stars of the Lid, Tyondai Braxton, MONO, Goldfrapp, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, and William Basinski. Recent performances by Wordless Music Orchestra at BAM include the 2017 Next Wave presentation of John Cale's 50th Anniversary of The Velvet Underground & Nico and John Cale's 75th Birthday Celebration, as well as the 2016 screenings of Terrence Malick's Tree of Life and Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch Drunk Love and Phantom Thread.

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