Mix 1, 2, 3, 4
February 28, 2015 at 8:00 pm
The Drawing Room
56 Willoughby Street
(between Lawrence & Jay Streets)
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Program
Return of Spring
Music by Manuela Lechler
Viola - Pedro Vizzarro Vallejos, Percussion - Joe Tucker,
Alto Sax - Manuela Lechler
Nature moves in cycles. After the snow, we dream of the return of spring.....
Ruined
Music by Ann Warren
Text based on writings of Erik Satie
Viola - Pedro Vizzarro Vallejos, Trombone - David Whitwell
Actor - Fedly Daniel
A life lived single-mindedly for the sake of art.
Bain de mer en forme de point d’orgue
Text by Sylvaine Hinglais
Bain de Mer
Music by Ann Warren
Actors - Fedly Daniel & David A. Green
Alto Sax - Manuela Lechler
What is it like to see the sea for the first time?
Ils sont personne et tout le monde, chacun de nous,
et leurs mots sonnent comme des notes de musique;
le dialogue est rythmé, tonique, sous-tendu par le murmure des vagues. (performed in French)
Three Songs of Dislocation
Corridor with Boxes * Route 99 * The Last Ferry
Music by Stephanie Greig
Viola - Pedro Vizzarro Vallejos, Alto Sax - Manuela Lechler, Trombone - David Whitwell
The 3 "songs" (no words yet) are sketches of the experience of dislocation - an involuntary move
to temporary ground with no known final destination -
with its peculiar shifting moods of wonder, discomfort, dread, melancholy, numbness, and euphoria.
Uncle Seabird
Music by Ann Warren
Text based on writings of Erik Satie
Trombone - David Whitwell, Actor - Fedly Daniel
Instilled with a love of the theatrical and
a disdain for the conventional.
Celtic Blessing
Music by Ivy Adrian
Piano - Ivy Adrian
Valse
Music by Ann Warren
(d’après **)
Flute - Alice H. Jones, Viola - Pedro Vizzarro Vallejos,
Alto Sax - Manuela Lechler, Trombone - David Whitwell
When this melody was premiered, it was at a salon concert just like this.
But, the names of the composers were withheld from the audience,
who were invited to make their own identifications.
Who do you think composed this?
a selection from
The Strange Library
Music by Whitney George
Text by Haruki Murakami
Flute - Alice H. Jones, Viola - Pedro Vizzarro Vallejos,
Trombone - David Whitwell, Percussion - Joe Tucker,
Actor - David A. Green
The Strange Library is a musical setting of the recent novella by Haruki Murakami.
Designed and illustrated by famed book jacket designer (and frequent Murakami collaborator) Chip Kidd,
the novella is packaged like a graphic novel, whose moody and mysterious depictions of a child’s
darkest dream match Murakami’s surreal imagination. The plot is equally eerie: a little boy enters a
quiet library -- “even more hushed than usual,” we’re told in the opening line -- and is sent to Room 107,
where he meets a creepy old librarian who leads him deep into a maze of dark catacombs beneath
the library. There, we learn of the librarian’s ghoulish designs and the boy encounters a small man
wearing the skin of a sheep and a pretty young girl pushing a teacart, their worlds now “all jumbled together.”
Not even fresh-made doughnuts can sweeten the boy’s nightmarish predicament as the librarian’s prisoner.
