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From:  Mezzoid@a...
Mezzoid@a...
Date:  Wed Oct 25, 2000  2:17 pm
Subject:  ANN: Recital Tomorrow


Nothing like getting the info out at the last possible second....

JOURNEYS: Music of Twentieth Century Composers
Christine Thomas, Mezzo Soprano & Reciter
Milton Peckarsky, Piano

Thursday, October 26, 2000
7:30 pm
Recital Hall, Carroll College

I. Autumnal Equinox
II. Sunlit Field with Weeds Hugo Hartig (b. 1947)

At the River Charles Ives
(1874-1954)
Remembrance Ives
Early in the Morning Ned Rorem (b. 1923)

Verlassen Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Abendphantasie Viktor Ullmann (1898-1944)

Intermission

The Way of the Love and Death of Cornet Christoph von Rilke
Ullmann
Kaddish Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

The penultimate piece on the program is for reciter and piano and is based on
an epic poem of Rainer Maria Rilke. Ullmann based this melodrama for reciter
and piano (and left sketches of future orchestration) on twelve sections of
the Rilke poem. The first movement is an impersonal narrative of the death
of the young Cornet. The subsequent movements follow him from the monotonous
ride through the countryside to the bonding of men at rest, his simultaneous
pride at carrying his regiment's flag and fear at what the future may hold,
the exhilaration of being treated as a guest in a castle and dancing with
beautiful young women after a long period of deprivation, the guilt of
enjoying himself while others fight, a rendezvous with an unknown woman, and
the final battle between Cornet's men and the enemy. Finally, a messenger is
sent to Cornet's home to deliver the news of his death. This leads directly
into the Ravel Kaddish.

I call the program "Journeys" because the first line of the first song is
"The journey into darkness has begun again," and the last song is also
representative of a journey.


Christine Thomas
Wauwatosa, WI
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