Tags: art song, Chamber Music, Noe Valley, poetry, Thomas Glenn, William Taylor
I am thrilled to announce that my one act opera, Love/Hate, will be performed this coming September at the Philly Fringe/Live Arts Festival, which is an internationally recognized presenter of the performing arts. The festival is actually two concurrent arts festivals, the Live Arts Festival and the Philly Fringe, rolled into one. CoNEXTions: The Next Generation of Opera will be presenting the piece with the Center City Opera Theatre on September 12th at 3:00pm.
Curious about Love/Hate? Click here to read about a college professor, bi-curious george, a lesbian pole stripper, cassanova, and other characters from the opera… You can also listen to some of it.
This event is special in that it invites audience participation, calling upon the listeners to give feedback to both me and the librettist, Ron Bailis, it’ll be a truly productive experience for everybody.
According to the website all the free tickets are now sold out, and if you are interested in going you should call for availability.
See you in Philly!
Tags: Fringe, Live Arts Festival, Love/Hate, opera, Philly, September
Last May I had the pleasure of performing my setting of Walt Whitman’s, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed”, at Noe Valley Chamber Music in San Francisco with the stunning Melody Moore. Her tone and pitch are incomparable, and I’m delighted to have worked with her.
Tags: art song, Jack Perla, Melody Moore, Walt Whitman
Jack Perla’s MWW Concert
Jack Perla’s Music Without Walls will play a concert at the ODC Dance Commons in August, 2010! We’re working out the date, stand by for an announcement…
“ODC Dance Commons… offers an environment where professionals, emerging artists, students, and dance fans can congregate, exchange ideas and inspire one another.” ODC Dance Commons
ODC Dance Commons (map) 351 Shotwell Street (between 17th and 18th streets) San Francisco, CA
*Watch “On A Train Heading South“, a 2006 performance at ODC, music by Jack Perla
Tags: August, Music Without Walls, MWW, ODC Dance Commons, ODC Theater, On a Train Heading South
Concert with Chuck Lazarus, the Miro Quartet & Jorja Fleezanis
I will be traveling to Stillwater (not far from Minneapolis), MN next week to be a featured guest of the White Pine Festival, where I will join the Charles Lazarus Group in performing some of my new jazz works. Chuck, a trumpeter for the Minnesota Orchestra, is hailed for his “bedazzling technique and refined sense of musicianship” by the New York Newsday. There, renowned violinist and headliner Jorja Fleezanis, former concertmaster of the Minnesota Orchestra, and the explosive Miró Quartet from Austin, TX, will also join us. They will complete the lineup that is to perform a world premiere of my mash-up of classical-jazz fusion. This is a fantastic opportunity to have my music performed by the very best, and it should prove to be an enjoyable evening.
Friday, June 25th, 7:30pm Trinity Lutheran Church (map) 115 N. 4th St., Stillwater, MN 55082 Buy ticketsCharles Lazarus Miró Quartet Jorja Fleezanis
Tags: Chamber Music, jazz, Jorja Fleezanis, Minnesota, Miro Quartet, Trinity Lutheran Church, White Pine
Pretty Boy
Pretty Boy is a new electro-acoustic piece that loosely explores the life, times, and ultimate capture of American gangster, bank robber, and folk hero Pretty Boy Floyd. The new piece was commissioned by the Paul Dresher Ensemble with support from the American Composers Forum, and features my good friend/amazing tenor Thomas Glenn. My librettist and collaborator is Canadian playwright David Brock.
Friday Nov. 12th & Saturday Nov. 13thODC Theater (map) 351 Shotwell Street San Francisco, CA 94110 .
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Paul Dresher Ensemble .
Thomas Glenn
Tags: David Brock, ODC Theater, Paul Dresher, Pretty Boy Floyd, Thomas Glenn
A Comic Chamber Opera
A chamber opera in development, Love/Hate continues to gain supporters. American Opera Projects in New York is the leading consortium to develop the work, along with San Francisco-based ODC Theater and Urban Arias out of Arlington, Virginia. Following its 2011 premier in five cities, the opera will also be performed by Houston Grand Opera in 2012. The librettist for Love/Hate is my dear friend & longtime musical collaborator, Rob Bailis. Here’s Rob’s description of the work…
“Watch the celebrity death match as a college professor, lesbian pole stripper, bi-curious george, cassanova, and other characters duke it out for love. It’s a little like Canterbury Tales meets Milan Kundera, with a splash of Dr. Ruth – “each” relationship is “every” relationship; the devil is in the details. Reveling in our paradoxical mating methodologies, roiling at the ironic isolation of point and click social lives, “Love/Hate” posits an old paradigm for a new era.”
Tags: American Opera Projects, Comedy, Hate, Love, ODC Theater, opera, Rob Bailis, Urban Arias
