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s e p t e m b e r '0 8
I hope this finds you enjoying a fine first day of fall. My last few months have been busy ones, composing for American Opera Projects & Tapestry New Opera. In just a couple of weeks some of that work will be premiered in Toronto & New York, so I wanted to send you details about the performances. I hope to see you there!
Tapestry New Opera
opera briefs
Last month I spent ten action packed days in Toronto, participating in Tapestry New Opera's Lib lab program. This was one of the most enjoyable, rewarding and completely exhausting things I've done in some time. Here's the official description:
Lib lab provides artists with the opportunity to develop techniques for effective collaboration. Writers and composers are partnered with one another for one day each. With input from music and stage directors, each pair writes a short piece of music theatre and investigates the collaborative process. Their work is performed at the end of each day and then constructively critiqued by the group.
Here's how the participants might describe it:
ten days, four composers, four writers, sixteen scenes, no sleep.
I loved it!
I'm thrilled that two of the scenes I composed will be performed on september 26, 27 & 28 in toronto, as part of Tapestry's 2008-09 season OPERA BRIEFS.
American Opera Projects
6 scenes
Composers & the Voice 2008 culminates in 6 scenes, presented october 3 & 4 at AOP's home base, the South Oxford Space. Included on this program will be about 25 minutes of Love/Hate, the new one act chamber opera I'm composing for AOP and ODC Theater. The librettist for Love/Hate is my dear friend & longtime musical collaborator, Rob Bailis. Here's Rob's description...
Watch the celebrity death match as a college professor, lesbian pole stripper, bi-curious george, cassanova, and other characters duke it out for love. It's a little like Canterbury Tales meets Milan Kundera, with a splash of Dr. Ruth - "each" relationship is "every" relationship; the devil is in the details. Reveling in our paradoxical mating methodologies, roiling at the ironic isolation of point and click social lives, "Love/Hate" posits an old paradigm for a new era.
Fri Oct 3 & Sat Oct 4, 8 PM
South Oxford Space
138 South Oxford St.
Brooklyn NY 11217
DIRECTIONS
Tickets: $20 / $15 (stud/snrs)
Reservations: 718-398-4024 or mgray@operaprojects.org;
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In Fugue performed with MFDP in peru and san francisco
In Fugue, based on Wait Here, the score for cello & piano I composed and performed for the Mark Foehringer Dance Project, was performed at Danza Nueva XX, a 20 year old contemporary
dance festival in Lima, Peru, June 12-14, 2008, in collaboration with the Ballet Nacional del Peru. It was also reprised by Mark's company in San Francisco on September 5 & 6.Ok, that's it for now. I hope to hear from you, or see you at one of the shows!
all best,
Jack Perla