Dora Ohrenstein and counter)induction
Mon Jan 28 2002
Funky urban diva Dora Ohrenstein and c)i present a concert of world premieres and landmark twentieth-century works at the historic Trinity Church in lower Manhattan.
The program includes the world premieres of Harold Meltzer’s ‘Two Songs for Silas Marner’ for soprano and cello, as well as Adam Silverman’s ‘Those Mean Reds,’ for solo piano. The music of William Bolcom is also being featured, with performances of four songs from his 1991 song-cycle ‘I Will Breathe a Mountain.’ Maurice Ravel’s eerily-beautiful, Schoenberg-influenced ‘Chansons Madecasses’ and the first section of Arnold Schoenberg’s landmark, ‘sprechstimme’-laden ‘Pierrot Lunaire’ complete the program.
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“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”
--Francis Bacon, The Essays