Articles Tagged with 2001

Booby Trap, The, op. 146

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subtitled: Off Our Chests

musical with texts by Sydney Ross Singer & composer

on the link between bras & breast cancer

for 2 men, 2 women, and a piano (and optional cello),

based on A Little Breast Play

by Singer & Soma Grismaijer, Dec. 2000-Jan. 2001;

asterisked numbers* added, 2005;

written for & performed by Helene Williams, Cary Bair,

Peter Kacalanos/Leonard Lehrman,

Sarvamangala/Susan Blake/Kathryn Wieckhorst

Excerpts:

Overture*

Doctors*

Think Pink*

Barbie Blues

Baby Breasts

The Boobs Blues

Pusher Bra*

Fiji*

Silicone Sal

Breast Play

Quartet: Pillow Talk

It’s Tough Bein’ a Tittie Today*

A Break*

The Trouble with Breasts*

The Test

Bras, Not Genes*

Working It Out

Stuffed Bras (Off Our Chests)

concert prem. (of 8 numbers) Golden Fleece Ltd., Theater 22, 5/13/01

full concert prem. Eastover, Lenox, Mass. 8/23/01

performances with additional numbers:

8/11/05 Empire Haven, Moravia NY

5/19/06 PeaceSmiths, United Methodist Church,,Amityville NY [SB]

5/19/07 United Methodist Church, Islip NY [SB]

8/10/07 Eastern Naturist Festival, Empire Haven, Moravia NY

8/12/07 Ithaca Commons, NY Green Fest [SB]

8/25/07 Custer Institute, Southold NY [SB]

5/17/08 WomanSpace, Great Neck Senior Center [KW]

10/20/08 Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck NJ [KW]

—during Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Sacco and Vanzetti, op. 148

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3-act opera (2 hr. 45 min.) begun but left unfinished by

Marc Blitzstein (1959-1963)

commissioned by Ford Foundation,

optioned by Metropolitan Opera, completed 1978-Feb. 2001

published by Theodore Presser;

6 excerpts (asterisked) published by Boosey & Hawkes;

first complete performances in concert with piano:

Aug. 17, 18, 19, 2001, White Barn Theatre, Westport CT

Excerpts performable separately:

*1. Sacco’s Act II Aria, “With a Woman to Be” (4’40”-7’03”)

*2. Sacco-Rosa Act II Duet (2’04”)

*3. Vanzetti’s Last Statement (3’07”)

*4. Vanzetti’s First Aria (2’29”)

*5. Sacco’s “The Whole Shoe” Aria (5’11”)

6. Sacco-Mrs. Evans Duet

7. Sacco-Rosa-Vanzetti Trio (1’45”-2’00”),

also performable as Sacco-Rosa Duet,

music based on Blitzstein’s “The Hills of Amalfi”

*8. Mary Donovan’s Aria,

inspired by “Hymn” from Blitzstein’s Juno

9. Act I Quartet Finale

music derived in part from “Have Yourself a Night”

from Blitzstein’s Reuben Reuben

10. Memorial Day Parade (1’37”)

music based on Blitzstein’s setting  of Alfred Hayes’s

“Into the Streets May First”

11. Thompson’s Act III Aria, “Secrets”

#1 recorded on Premier PRCD 1005

#2-5 recorded on Original Cast Records OC 4441

#1, 7 & 10 recorded on Original Cast Records OC 6127

Equatorial, op. 149 #18

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setting of poem by Ian McBryde (3’15”),

#18 (finale) from An Australian Odyssey, op. 149;

premiered by Helene Williams & composer,

Bryant Library, Roslyn NY Dec. 2, 2001,

Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran, Melbourne, Jan. 5, 2002

Woman’s Song, op. 149 #17

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setting of poem by Judith Wright (2’30”) –

quotes (Schubert’s) “Death and the Maiden,”

as the poem does; #17 from An Australian Odyssey,

op. 149; premiered by Helene Williams & composer,

Bryant Library, Roslyn NY Dec. 2, 2001,

Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran, Melbourne, Jan. 5, 2002

Portrait, op. 149 #16

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setting of poem by Judith Wright (1’40”),

#16 from An Australian Odyssey, op. 149;

premiered by Helene Williams & composer,

Bryant Library, Roslyn NY Dec. 2, 2001,

Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran, Melbourne, Jan. 5, 2002

fairytale, op. 149 #15

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setting of unpunctuated, uncapitalized prose poem

by Ania Walwicz (8’25”),

#15 from An Australian Odyssey, op. 149;

premiered by Helene Williams & composer,

Bryant Library, Roslyn NY Dec. 2, 2001,

Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran, Melbourne, Jan. 5, 2002;

also performed at Hakoah Club, Bondi, Sydney, 1/9/02,

and at Jan Hus Playhouse, NYC, 4/27/08,

co-sponsored by Vox Novus & Remarkable Theatre Brigade

Erstwhile, op. 149 #14

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setting of poem by Chris Wallace-Crabbe,

#14 from An Australian Odyssey, op. 149;

premiered by Helene Williams & composer,

Bryant Library, Roslyn NY Dec. 2, 2001,

Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran, Melbourne, Jan. 5, 2002

Crosstalk, op. 149 #13

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setting of poem by John Tranter (2’10”),

#13 from An Australian Odyssey, op. 149;

premiered by Helene Williams & composer,

Bryant Library, Roslyn NY Dec. 2, 2001,

Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran, Melbourne, Jan. 5, 2002;

also performed at Hakoah Club, Bondi, Sydney, Jan. 9, 2002

Antipodean Heads, op. 149 #11

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setting of poem by John Forbes (1’50”),

#11 from An Australian Odyssey, op. 149;

premiered by Helene Williams & composer,

Bryant Library, Roslyn NY Dec. 2, 2001,

Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran, Melbourne, Jan. 5, 2002;

also performed at Hakoah Club, Bondi, Sydney, Jan. 9, 2002

After Babel, op. 149 #8

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setting of poem by Peter Goldsworthy,

#8 from An Australian Odyssey, op. 149;

premiered by Helene Williams & composer,

Bryant Library, Roslyn NY Dec. 2, 2001,

Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran, Melbourne, Jan. 5, 2002

Missing Him, op. 149 #7

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setting of poem by Jordie Albiston (1’30”),

#7 from An Australian Odyssey, op. 149;

premiered by Helene Williams & composer,

Bryant Library, Roslyn NY Dec. 2, 2001,

Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran, Melbourne, Jan. 5, 2002

No More Boomerang, op. 149 #3

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setting of poem by aboriginal Australian poet,

Oodgeroo Noonuccal (2’20”);

#3 from An Australian Odyssey, op. 149;

premiered by Helene Williams & composer,

Bryant Library, Roslyn NY Dec. 2, 2001,

Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran, Melbourne, Jan. 5, 2002;

also performed at Sydney Naturally, Jan. 19, 2002,

on 2 Melbourne radio broadcasts,

Dec. 30, 2001 & Jan. 5, 2002;

and at Jan Hus Playhouse, NYC, Apr. 27, 2008,

co-sponsored by Vox Novus & Remarkable Theatre Brigade

I Remember, [Sonnetina #12], op. 149 #2

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setting of sonnet by Jacob Rosenberg,

premiered by Effie Apelast-Weinberg & composer,

CAMI Hall, Oct. 23, 2001;

also performed by Helene Williams & composer,

Theodor Herzl Club, N. Caulfield, Melbourne 12/31/01,

and at Hakoah Club, Bondi, Sydney, Jan. 9, 2002;

#2 from An Australian Odyssey, op. 149 –

premiered by Helene Williams & composer,

Bryant Library, Roslyn NY Dec. 2, 2001,

Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran, Melbourne, Jan. 5, 2002

Love Sonnet #9 [Sonnetina #11], op. 149 #1

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setting of sonnet by Edith Speers, for soprano & piano;

#1 from An Australian Odyssey, op. 149;

premiered by Helene Williams & composer,

Bryant Library, Roslyn NY Dec. 2, 2001,

Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran, Melbourne, Jan. 5, 2002;

also performed by them at Hakoah Club, Bondi, Sydney,

Jan. 9, 2002; Sydney Naturally, Jan. 19, 2002;

and on 2 Melbourne radio broadcasts, Dec. 30, 2001

Australian Odyssey, An, op. 149

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18-song cycle on poems by Australian poets (42’30”):

Edith Speers (#1), Jacob Rosenberg (#2),

Oodgeroo Noonuccal (#3), Alex Skovron (#4 & 6),

Alison Croggon (#5), Jordie Albiston (#7),

Peter Goldsworthy (#8), Judith Wright (#9, 16 & 17),

Michael Dransfield (#10), John Forbes (#11 & 12),

John Tranter (#13), Chris Wallace-Crabbe (#14),

Ania Walwicz (#15), Ian McBryde (#18);

for Helene [Williams], to Alex Skovron;

premiered by her & composer,

Bryant Library, Roslyn NY, Dec. 2, 2001

Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran, Melbourne, Jan. 5, 2002