Saturday, July 20 | 8:00pm
Works by Birtwistle, Schoenberg, Haydn, Galuppi, Crumb, and Coxe
50 years ago this night, the first Yellow Barn musicians watched the first moon landing together.
Harrison Birtwistle (b.1934) Crescent Moon over the Irrational (2010) | Program Note
Rosie Gallagher, flute; Yasmina Spiegelberg, clarinet; Noël Wan, harp; Anthony Marwood, SoYoung Choi, violins; Maria Lambros, viola; John Myerscough, cello
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) Dreimal sieben Gedichte aus Albert Giraud's “Pierrot Lunaire," Op.21 (Three Times Seven Poems from Albert Giraud’s “Pierrot Lunaire”) (1912)
Lucy Shelton, voice; Rosie Gallagher, flute/piccolo; Yasmina Spiegelberg, clarinet/bass clarinet; Mélanie Clapiès, violin/viola; Jean-Michel Fonteneau, cello; Seth Knopp, piano
Intermission
IL MONDO DELLA LUNA | Program Note
Libretto by Carlo Goldoni
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) Act II: Ecco qui buonafede nel mondo della luna (Here is Buonafede in the world of the moon) (1777)
Lucy Shelton, soprano; Benjamin Butterfield, tenor; William Sharp, baritone; Jean-Michel Fonteneau, Stephen Coxe, continuo
Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785) Act II: A quelle luci amate (To those beloved lights) (1750)
Benjamin Butterfield, tenor; Magdalena Filipczak, Claire Bourg, violins; Roger Tapping, viola; Jean-Michel Fonteneau, Stephen Coxe, continuo
George Crumb (b.1929) Makrokosmos II (1973) | Program Note
Sophiko Simsive, Pedro Borges, Alice Chenyang Xu, Emely Phelps, Marisa Gupta, Seth Knopp, piano
John Lennon/Stephen Coxe (b.1966) Across the Universe (2013, rev.2019) | Program Note
William Sharp, baritone; Alice Chenyang Xu, piano
