CALL LATELY / Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti

Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti, Lecturer in Music, was named one of two Pulitzer finalists for a composition called “with eyes the color of time.”

The 32-minute piece is inspired by works in The Contemporary Museum (Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House) when it first opened in 1988, and premiered on August 6, 2021, at the Tenri Cultural Institute in New York City by the String Orchestra of Brooklyn. The composition ​​combines experimental string textures and episodes of melting lyricism. The works of art featured include: George Rickey’s kinetic sculpture Two Open Triangles Up, Gyratory III (1988), Deborah Butterfield’s Nahele (1986), James Seawright’s Mirror XV (1987), Toshiko Takaezu’s moons (a series of sculptures she often referred to by the Hawaiian word, mahina) and David Hockney’s L’Enfant et les sortiléges (originally conceived as a set for the opera by Maurice Ravel of the same name). The title of the entire work, “with eyes the color of time,” comes from a phrase in the Ravel opera. READ MORE