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Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival

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Victoria Bond, Doug Fitch, and Stephen Greco invite you to join them for an�“AOP First Chance” Development Workshop showing of Gulliver’s Travels Opera by Victoria Bond Libretto by Stephen Greco Design and direction by Doug Fitch.

Based upon the novel by Jonathan Swift Featuring:
Ariadne Greif, soprano; Yoojin Lee, mezzo-soprano; Scott Joiner, tenor; David Charles Tay, tenor; Jonathan Hare, baritone and Emmanuel Chumaceiro, bass-baritone.

Andrew Kurtz, conductor
Kristen Kemp, piano

Friday, October 6, 2017 �8-10 p.m at:
American Opera Projects�The Great Room, South Oxford Space�138 South Oxford Street
Fort Greene, Brooklyn

Tickets: $10 advance online; $15 at the door (cash only): gulliverstravelsoct06.eventbrite.com

“People come in many forms, and so, of course, does love...”

Workshop co-presented by American Opera Projects and Gulf Coast Symphony, in association with Welltone New Music, Inc.
Opera commissioned by American Opera Projects through the Opera Grants for Female Composers program, made possible through the generosity of The Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation. Development by Gulf Coast Symphony and AOP. World Premiere 2019 to be presented by Gulf Coast Symphony, conducted by Andrew Kurtz.

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Gulliver's Travels

October 6, 2017, 8:00pm - October 6, 2017, 9:00pm

Victoria Bond, Doug ...

Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival

4 months ago

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Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival

6 months ago

Three operas by contemporary composers on textx by cutting edge authors: Victoria Bond/James Joyce; William Anderson/Djuna Barnes; Frank Brickle/Ezra Pound. ... See MoreSee Less

Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival: Off-Beat Operas

May 1, 2017, 7:30pm - May 1, 2017, 9:00pm

Three operas by cont...

Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival

7 months ago

In a surprising moment of heroism, Teddy Roosevelt led a daring charge to victory in the battle of San Juan Hill, which he later called "The Crowded Hour." In a similarly impressive feat, a new trumpet concerto by Victoria Bond, similarly called "The Crowded Hours" will be premiered on Monday, April 17 at 7:30 pm in Ganz Hall at Roosevelt University (430 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago).
This unique work for trumpet solo, brass ensemble and narrator features soloist Mark Ridenour of the Chicago Symphony with the CCPA Wind Ensemble, led by Stephen Squires. Acclaimed actor Ray Ferwen narrates Theodore Roosevelt's words in the libretto by Dr. Myles Lee. Bond's composition incorporates popular American music of the 1900's including "Take me out to the Ball Game" and "A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight." The evening's program also includes music by Adolphus Hailstork and James Stephenson. ... See MoreSee Less

The Crowded Hours

April 17, 2017, 7:30pm - April 17, 2017, 10:30pm

In a surprising mome...

Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival

7 months ago

The final concert of the 2017 Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival features the Cygnus Ensemble in a program of "Offbeat Operas" by composers William Anderson, Frank Brickle, and the world premiere of Victoria Bond's Sirens.

William Anderson's Eight Rhythms, Settings is based on a set of poems by Djuna Barnes from 1915. Anderson's utilizes many kinds of contemporary idioms-- indie rock, Simon & Garfunkel, and a bit of minimalism as well.

Le Testament de Villon by Frank Brickle begins with the opera by George Antheil and Ezra Pound and condenses it to an essential version dramatically and musically. This is the New York City premiere of Brickle's opera.

Victoria Bond's Sirens draws upon Episode 11 of James Joyce's Ulysses as inspiration. This episode, along with the overall theme of Joyce's Ulysses, is about being an outsider who is scorned and reviled. He is also everyman or everywoman who feels apart and alone in the midst of a world that has no use for him or her.

Program:

William Anderson/Djuna Barnes Eight Rhythms, Settings
Frank Brickle/Ezra Pound Le Testamente de Villon
Victoria Bond/James Joyce Sirens

Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival (CEC), now in its 20th season, was founded by composer and conductor Victoria Bond featuring the music of living composers. CEC has been called "a full-throttle commitment to contemporary music" by Chamber Music America, and "a gift to New Yorkers thirsty for new sounds" by Time Out New York. Discussions with the composers are featured on each program prior to performances by outstanding ensembles and soloists. In 2017 the Festival's three concerts will take place in the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater at Symphony Space. Highlights of this year's three-concert festival include the Eroica Trio (Monday, April 3) featuring works by Paul Schoenfield, Bruce Wolosoff and Kevin Puts; pianist Taka Kigawa and the String Orchestra of New York City (Monday, April 24) performing works by Richard Carrick, Sean Shepherd, Lisa Bielawa, and premieres by Victoria Bond and Zosha Di Castri; and the Cygnus Ensemble (Monday, May 1) presenting a program of "Offbeat Operas" written by William Anderson, Frank Brickle, and Victoria Bond. ... See MoreSee Less

Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival

May 1, 2017, 7:30pm - May 1, 2017, 9:00pm

The final concert of...

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