What do you get when you team up the dynamic LehrerDance Company with mezzo-soprano Julia Bentley and collaborative pianist Kuang-Hao Huang? Combined with SUNY Distinguished Professor Ann C. Colley as literary advisor and art directing by retired Concert Master of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Haupt? You get a cutting edge artistic performance set to "A Musical Feast" of course! The performance pays tribute to the bicentennial of the birth of the English author, illustrator and poet Edward Lear. According to Irene Haupt, ""Lehrer/Dance is going on tour in December to Russia, next year to Europe, "Meaning that there's never been a better time to catch such a wonderful performance. It's great visual poetry set to music."
Also from Irene:
Bentley and Huang will be performing Cage's Songs for Contralto and Piano, based on the poetry of ee cummings, as well as French composer André Caplet's 1919 work Trois Fables de Jean de la Fontaine, Oskar Morawetz's 1984 work, Souvenirs of Childhood, based on poetry from Robert Louis Stevenson's beloved collection A Child's Garden of Verses. John Bacon performs "The Electronic Playground" with the Fredonia Faculty Percussion Quartet.
Tickets: $20; Burchfield Penny members/students: $10. Phone: 878-6011. Information: www.amusicalfeast.com, or: www.BurchfieldPenny.org
"A Musical Feast"
Child's Play for Adults - Music, Dance, Verse and Song
Peter & Elizabeth C. Tower Auditorium @ Burchfield Penny Art Center
November 9, 2012 @ 8 PM
Artistic Director: Charles Haupt - General Manager: Irene Haupt
Literary Advisor: Ann C. Colley, SUNY Distinguished Professor
Musical Advisor: Julia Bentley
Photo: Artistic Director: Charles Haupt. Prof. Ann Colley, Jon Lehrer with members of Lehrer/Dance Company
AMBLONGUS PIE: DANCE, MUSIC, VERSE, AND SONG
The Electronic Playground (2007) John Bacon (1963)
The Fredonia Faculty Percussion Quartet, Kay Stonefelt, Tiffany Nicely. Matthew Wilson, John Bacon, percussion and electronics
Five Songs for Contralto and Piano (1938) John Cage (1912-1992)
text by e.e. cummings (1894-1962)
Julia Bentley, mezzo-soprano Kuang-Hao Huang, piano
Trois Fables de Jean de la Fontaine ( 1919) André Caplet (1878-1925)
text by Jean de la Fontaine (1621-1695)
1) Le corbeau et le renard
2) La cigale et la fourmi
3) Le loup et l'agneau
Julia Bentley, mezzo-soprano Kuang-Hao Huang, piano
Four Dances (1942-43) John Cage (1912-1992)
for piano (also handclap) percussion (tom-tom, handclap, footstomp) and voice
Dance 1
Dance 2
Julia Bentley, mezzo-soprano, Kuang-Hao Huang, piano
Lehrer Dance Company:: Kurt Adametz, Rachael Humphrey, Theodore Krzykowski
Intermission
Nonsense Cookery (1870) Edward Lear (1812-1888)
Lear Recipes from Nonsense Gazette 1870
Julia Bentley, mezzo-soprano
Souvenirs from Childhood (1985) Oskar Morawetz (1917-2007)
Poetry by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
1) From a Railway Carriage
2) The Swing
3) Escape at Bedtime
4) Foreign Children
Julia Bentley, mezzo-soprano, Kuang-Hao Huang, piano
Four Dances ( 1942-43) John Cage (1912-1992)
for piano (also handclap) percussion (tom-tom, handclap, footstomp) and voice
Dance 3
Dance 4
Julia Bentley, mezzo-soprano, Kuang-Hao Huang, piano
Lehrer Dance Company : Kurt Adametz, Rachael Humphrey, Theodore Krzykowski
Upcoming concerts: February 8, 2013 April 12 ,2013
AMBLONGUS PIE: DANCE, MUSIC, VERSE, AND SONG
Febr.concert has been changed to March 10
Hello, brunette! Any way we can get the entry image to be enlargeable on this site?