GOAT HALL PRODUCTIONS
San Francisco Cabaret Opera
presents
FRESH VOICES XXI
Seriously?!...
7pm, Friday, December 3, 2021
Zoom Meeting Everywhere!
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
Candide (1956 /1982, Voltaire, 1694-1778 / Hugh Wheeler, 1912-1987)
XIX. Words, Words, Words (Martin's Laughing Song)
Harriet March Page, Mezzo-Soprano
Mark Alburger - Bernstein Orchestrations, Op. 366 (2021)
David Gossage (b. c. 1963)
The Song of Wandering Aengus, 1995 (William Butler Yeats, 1865-1939)
Anna Mizera, Mezzo-Soprano
Allan Crossman, Piano
Jake Heggie (b. 1961)
Of Gods and Cats (2000, Gavin Geoffrey Dillard, b. 1954)
I. In the Beginning
Natural Selection (1997, Gini Savage)
II. Animal Passion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3G5vYGNf4M
Meghan Dibble, Mezzo-Soprano
John Bilotta (b. 1948)
The Song of the Hermit Thrush (2014, Walt Whitman, 1819-1892,
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, 1865)
https://youtu.be/S5zHVY9roNw
Sarita Cannon, Soprano
Divisa Ensemble
Carmen Lemoine, Flute
Adrienne Malley, Oboe
Emily Packard, Violin;
Stephanie Ng, Viola
Michael Graham, Cello
John Bilotta and Jostein Stalheim (b. 1960)
Rosetta's Stone (2014, Oded Ben-Horin and John F. McGrew))
Act II - Cafe Scene (Stalheim and McGrew)
https://youtu.be/nB9QwscWcxk?t=1498
Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera
Cass Panuska, Rosetta
Wayne Wong, Al
Jill Wagoner, Cortex
Sarita Cannon, Thalamus
Alexis Lane Jensen, Hippocampus
Kassidy Mayernik, Amygdala
Jamie Samantha Lee, Cerebellum
Harriet March Page, Brain Stem and Artistic Director
Rachel Condry, Clarinet
Robin Reynolds, Cello
Feeona Lee Jones, Piano
Mark Alburger, Music Director and Conductor
John Beeman (b. 1954
Ishi (Carla Brooke)
Act II, Scene 1
https://youtu.be/SZWFv_9DbXg
Ellen Leslie, Lily Lena
Robert Vann, Ishi
Paul Murray, T.T. Waterman
Chorus
Gabrielle Goozée-Nichols
Nicole Takesono
Adam Flowers
John Kendall Bailey
Keisuke Nakagoshi, Piano
Irving Fine (1914-1962)
Childhood Fables for Grownups (1958, Gertrude Norman, 1848-1943)
III. Lenny, the Leopard
IV. The Frog and the Snake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os2qErHfJ0A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI9aQGUVZQo
Meghan Dibble, Mezzo-Soprano
Sheli Nan (b. 1961)
The Last Gesture (2019)
https://youtu.be/0b12QZ2_p9o
Amy Foote, Soprano
Ari Bocian, Cello
Libby Kardontchik, Piano
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
The Decameron, Op. 367 (2021, Giovanni Boccaccio, 1313-1375)
Fifth Day, Op. 247 (2015) - Three George Crumb Tropes
Novel III. Pietro Boccamazza runs away with Agnolella, and encounters a gang of robbers
(Madrigals, Book II [1962]: III. Cabalito Negro - Little Black Horse)
Novel VII. Pietro Teodoro, being enamoured of Violante, daughter of Messer Amerigo,
his lord, gets her with child, and is sentenced to the gallows
(Black Angels [1970]: I-V, VII, X)
Novel VIII. Nastagio degli Onesti, loving a damsel of the Traversari family,
by lavish expenditure gains not her love
(Songs, Drones, and Refrains of Death [1968]: III. Cancion de Jinete - Song of the Rider)
Mark Alburger, Electronics
