Program
David Del Tredici:
The Last Rose of Summer -- premiere
--- featuring tutti Cygnus, with Del Tredici specialists--baritone Michael Kelly, trombonist Felix Del Tredici, and pianist Marc Peloquin
Morris Rosenzweig:
Drang Nicht --premiere
--tutti Cygnus
Anna Weesner:
My Mother in Love --NY premiere
My Mother in Love is a recent winner of the American Academy of Arts & Letters' Virgil Thomson Award Weesner's Virgil Thomson Award
--featuring soprano Tony Arnold & tutti Cygnus
Richard Festinger:
Joyce Settings --premiere
--featuring Vox n Plux -- the Cygnus guitarists with soprano Elizabeth Farnum
Cygnus @ University of Wisconsin
Souding Beckett and more
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Program
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7pm
Pre-concert Panel Discussion
with composers Laura Schwendinger and Chester Biscardi
& hosted by Beckett scholar Patricia Boyette
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Performance at 8pm
Laura Schwendinger: Footfalls (after Beckett); The Garden of Earthy Delights
Chester Biscardi: Footfalls
John Halle: Catastrophe (after Beckett)
Scott Johnson: Last Time Told (after Beckett's Ohio Impromptu)
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Sounding Beckett: Washington Post Review
Sounding Beckett: NY Times Review
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The 2012 Production of Sounding Beckett paired two different musical responses, written for Cygnus, to each of the three plays, as follows:
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Footfalls---Chester Biscardi; Laura Schwendinger
Ohio Impromptu---Scott Johnson, John Halle
Catastrophe---David Glaser, Laura Kaminsky
Cygnus @ Sarah Lawrence
Tuesday, February 27, 1:30PM
Reisinger Hall
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Program
Chester Biscardi: Footfalls (after the Becket play)
Laura Schwendinger: Footfalls
John Yannelli: The Misalignment of Time
William Anderson: J'Entends le moulin
--featuring the Bowers-Fader Duo
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Sounding Beckett--Washington Post Review
Sounding Beckett: NY Times Review
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The 2012 production of Sounding Beckett followed three of Beckett's ghost plays with original works, for tutti Cygnus, that respond to the plays, on alternating evenings, as follows:
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Footfalls---Chester Biscardi; Laura Schwendinger
Ohio Impromptu---Scott Johnson, John Halle
Catastrophe---David Glaser, Laura Kaminsky