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Yellow Barn and New England Conservatory partner in a
Workshop of György Kurtág's "Kafka Fragments" March 7 - March 14, 2010 Putney, Vermont Public Events and Performances March 11, 12, 13 and 14, 2010 About the Program: Yellow Barn, in partnership with the New England Conservatory of Music, will host a workshop in Putney, Vermont, focusing on "Kafka Fragments", György Kurtág's monumental seventy-minute song cycle for soprano and violin based on texts of Franz Kafka. Four sopranos will join four violinists enrolled at the New England Conservatory of Music to participate in this workshop led by Yellow Barn faculty members Susan Narucki, soprano, and Violaine Melançon, violin, experienced interpreters of this work. Eminent Kafka scholar, Stanley Corngold of Princeton University, will join the musicians during the workshop, helping to illuminate the interpretive process with discussions on Kafka and his writings. The week of coaching, workshops, public master classes and discussions will culminate in performances in Brattleboro, Vermont on Saturday, March 13th and in New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall on Sunday, March 14th. Schedule of Public Events and Concerts
Thursday, March 11 at 7:30pm Public Master Class with Faculty The Greenwood School Putney, VT Admission: $10 Friday, March 12 at 7:30pm Stanley Corngold Public Lecture: "‘The True Path'-Musical Indirections in Kafka and Kurtág" The Putney Public Library Putney, VT Admission: Free Saturday, March 13 at 8:00pm "Kafka Fragments" *Performance with pre-concert discussion Centre Congregational Church Brattleboro, VT Admission: $20 Sunday, March 14 at 8:00pm "Kafka Fragments" *Performance with pre-concert discussion Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory Boston, MA Admission: Free *Concertgoers are invited to attend a post-concert reception
and Q&A with musicians & scholar-in-residence Box Office Details Click here to purchase tickets Faculty Biographies: Susan Narucki, soprano, is a Grammy award-winning soprano and leading interpreter of contemporary music. Along with being a well-known recitalist and soloist in the world's major concert halls and opera houses, Narucki is Professor of Voice at the University of California, San Diego and serves on the faculty of Yellow Barn Music School & Festival. Violaine Melançon, violin, is a founding member of the Naumburg Award-winning Peabody Trio, with which she performs internationally. She is also the recipient of many awards for solo performance, including the 1984 Prix d'Europe. Melançon serves on the violin and chamber music faculties of the Peabody Conservatory and Yellow Barn Music School & Festival.Stanley Corngold, Kafka scholar, is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He has published widely on modern German writers and thinkers, but has focused much of his research on translating and writing on the work of Franz Kafka. Together with Professor Benno Wagner of the University of Siegen and the eminent civil-rights lawyer Jack Greenberg of the Columbia Law School, Corngold has recently edited, with commentary, a translation of Franz Kafka's office writings. Yellow Barn is delighted to host this workshop on our campus at the Greenwood School in Putney, Vermont. We are especially grateful to the Greenwood School faculty and staff, who helped to make this workshop possible. For more information, please contact: Lara Mones Festival Manager 63 Main St. Putney, Vermont 05346 (802) 387-6637 lara@yellowbarn.org |
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