GOAT HALL PRODUCTIONS
FRESH VOICES XVIII FESTIVAL OF NEW WORK
Life As We Know It -- Who Knew?
8pm, Saturday, November 3, 2018
Community Music Center, 544 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA
PART ONE
MATTHEW OWENS (b. 1950)
The Garden (2013, excerpts from Act I)
II. Lullaby
III. You dreamed me
V. Menuet
VI. Bourree
VII. Saint Martin
Jill K. Wagoner, soprano (Woman I)
Jacqueline Goldgorin, soprano (Woman II)
Angela Jarosz, soprano (Rabbit)
Mark Alburger, tenor (Grit)
Natalie Erskine, soprano (St. Martin)
NED ROREM (b. 1923)
Our Town (excerpt)
Emily's Aria
Cara Garbrielson, soprano
DOUG BRANDT
Our Little Secret (excerpt)
Izzie Speaks
Jill K. Wagoner, soprano
Intermission
PART TWO
MATTHEW OWENS
The Garden (excerpts from Acts I & II)
I.vii. Shadow song
II.i.
Peacock song
(Andy Ly, cellist)
II.v.
Caterpillar
II.vii.
Dino
II.viii.
I thought the world of you today, dear
Ryann Swale, soprano (Shadow, Fault-Finder)
Jacqueline Goldgorin, soprano (Peacock)
Natalie Erskine, soprano (St. Martin)
Megan Cullen, soprano (Dino)
ZACHARY M. WATKINS
Songs
Epitaph for Fire and Flower
The Lake
Meghan Dibble, mezzo-soprano
MARK ALBURGER (b. 1957)
To Those Who Come After: Three Elegies, Op. 256 (2016)
I. Truly, I live in a time of darkness
II.
I came to the cities at a time of disorder
III.
You who'll be borne up out of the flood
Harriet March Page, mezzo-soprano
Mark Alburger, tenor
Brief Pause
PART THREE
GIORGIO SPAGNOLI & JOHN GEHL
Senior at Play (Excerpts)
Teressa Foss, soprano (Kathryn)
Mark Alburger, tenor (Martin)
Harriet March Page, mezzo-soprano (Vicki)
WILLIAM BOLCOM (b. 1938)
Cabaret Songs, Volume 2 (1983)
IV. The Actor
Jill K. Wagoner, soprano
MATTHEW OWENS
The Garden (excerpts from Act III)
I. Old blue heron
XI.
Bouree (reprise)
Cara Garbrielson, soprano (Old Blue Heron)
Angela Jarosz, soprano (Rabbit)
Margaret Fondbertasse, pianist, for the Watkins songs.
Megan Cullen, pianist, for all the other works
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Marvelous show, as usual!
Picking up Megan
on
the
way
to the fest
on
this
221st
day of
of
summer,
high up 5 to 89
(San Francisco, 76),
highest since September 27's 97, and perhaps not to be surpassed until sometime in 2019...
Earlier and later, edit page 45 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992): Act III, and compose
Cliff Variations, Op. 287 (2018)
Theme and 30 Passacaglic Life Changes
Variation XII [Buddy Baker (1818-2002) - The Fox and the Hound (1981): Best of Friends]
