Who | Music from Yellow Barn: Music on the Brink of War |
When |
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
7:30pm
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Where |
2001 Flora Street
Dallas, TX |
Other Info | Since its premiere in 1912, Arnold Schoenberg’s “Pierrot Lunaire†has been regarded by generations of musicians and audiences as an icon of artistic originality. Igor Stravinsky, who knew something of originality, referred to Pierrot as the “solar plexus of twentieth century musicâ€. While Schoenberg embraced new techniques to frame his work and stretch the listener’s imagination, even as he turned to the aesthetics of melodrama in Pierrot, Kurt Weill sought to frame the realities of modern society with music that reflects its popular culture. Both Schoenberg and Kurt Weill (with dramatist Bertolt Brecht), whose Threepenny Operaâ€, “Mahoganyâ€, and “Happy Days†appear alongside the first stirrings of the Second World War, found the cabaret to be an environment well-suited to work that blurred the lines separating art and popular music, and the socialist and capitalist worlds to which their music reacted. Moon image: Brian Cohen, Moondrunk, 2007, from a series of etchings inspired by a Yellow Barn performance of Pierrot Lunaire. SHOW ARTISTS RESIDENCY CONCERT Sunday, May 17 | 3:00pm with Walter van Dyk, Liza Sadovy, and Lucy Shelton Next Stage, Putney, VT $18 (Seniors: $16, Students: $9) | Buy Tickets Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) Pierrot Lunaire, Op.21 (1912) Lucy Shelton, soprano David McCarroll, violin Jonathan Dormand, cello Sooyun Kim, flute Alan Kay, clarinet Seth Knopp, piano Kurt Weill (1900-1950) and Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) Arr. Michael Haslam O Moon of Alabama: A Kurt Weill Cabaret Texts by Bertolt Brecht Liza Sadovy, actor Walter van Dyk, actor David McCarroll, violin Jonathan Dormand, cello Elizabeth Burns, double bass Sooyun Kim, flute Alan Kay, clarinet Caleb Hudson, trumpet Michael Hosford, trombone Oren Fader, guitar Michael Haslam, keyboard Eduardo Leandro, percussion MUSIC FROM YELLOW BARN Wednesday, May 20 | 7:30pm Soundings: New Music at the Nasher Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX For tickets call 214-242-5100 The Nasher Sculpture Center is proud to present the fifth anniversary season of the critically acclaimed Soundings music series under the artistic direction of Seth Knopp. RELATED POSTS O Moon of Alabama: A Kurt Weill Cabaret Watch a video and learn more in advance of YB's May residency Yellow Barn, PO Box 507, Putney VT 05346 | (802) 387-6637 |
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