Bard SummerScape
St. Petersburg Legacy
July 25, 2004
Bard SummerScape
July 25, 2004
Two Performances:
Saturday, July 24, 2:00 pm
Sunday, July 25, 6:00 pm
Companion Piece to Guest from the Future
ST. PETERSBURG LEGACY
Conceived and Directed by Sarah Rothenberg
“In Petersburg, we’ll meet again,
as though we had buried the sun there…”
Sarah Rothenberg, piano; Katherine Ciesinski, mezzo-soprano; Jennifer Frautschi, violin; Julia Lichten, cello; Tony Torn, actor
Following sold-out performances at London’s Barbican Centre, Amsterdam’s Ijsbreker Festival and New York’s Great Performers at Lincoln Center, pianist Sarah Rothenberg, Artistic Director of Da Camera of Houston and former co-director of the Bard Music Festival, brings the acclaimed St Petersburg Legacy to Bard.
The uniquely rich cultural world of St. Petersburg is explored in a dramatic evening that celebrates great Russian poets and composers through readings, archival recordings, song settings and chamber music. The program travels from the bohemian cafes and salons of the early part of the 20th-century through the revolution to war-torn Leningrad and into the 1970’s.
Music of Shostakovich, Lourié, Prokofiev, Ustvolskaya
Texts of Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Osip Mandelstam, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Joseph Brodsky
“The piano mingling with the echo of the just-vanished voice, and the voice mingling with the echo of the just vanished piano, was nothing short of magical…” (Stagebill)
“full of revelations” (Austin American-Statesman)
A Da Camera of Houston Production
Tickets: $30