2014-15 Season

Music + Myth

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Gods & Monsters
 A Halloween concert!
 
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Medusa by Roxanna Bikadoroff (www.roxannamundi.ca)

Repertoire:
Nova Pon: Hymn To Apollo
Alan Hovhaness: Hercules
Claude Debussy: Syrinx
Matthew Tozer: Athena & Zeus
Mark Schultz: Into the Monster’s Lair
Richard Gleaves: Harlot’s House
Charles Ives: Slugging A Vampire
Tristan Murail: Vampyr!
Colin Eatock: Ashes Of Soldiers
John Duke: Shelling Peas, Grunchin’ Witch
John Corigliano: Song to the Witch of the Cloisters
Stephen Schwartz: What Is This Feeling?
 
Performers:
Catherine Laub, soprano
William George, tenor
Michael Park, piano
Adrian Verdejo, guitar
Jeff Pelletier, flute
Julie Begg, clarinet
Christine Lin, violin
Marina Hasselberg, cello
November 1, 2014 • 8pm
Orpheum Annex (823 Seymour Street)
Tickets: $25

Bacchanalia

Music of Delight, Delirium & Debauchery
 
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 The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymous Bosch
 
WARNING: Explicit Content
 
Repertoire:
Seymour Barab: Songs of Perfect Propriety (Dorothy Parker)
Christopher Berg: Poem (Frank O’Hara)
Jacques Brel: Amsterdam (Brel)
Daniel Dorff: Three Romances
Ricky Ian Gordon: Only Heaven (Langston Hughes)
Nicholas Ryan Kelly: Live Blindly* (Trumbull Stickney)
Catherine Laub: Bacchus on his ass*
Ryan Noakes: Appliance Speak*** (Katie Fedosenko)
Astor Piazzolla: Oblivion
Marga Richter: Divers (Diverse) Divertimento**
Rodney Sharman: The Garden (Rodney Sharman)
Cabaret Songs (Bill Richardson, Sharman)
 
*world premiere
**Canadian premiere
***world premiere version for chamber ensemble
 

Performers:
Catherine Laub, soprano
Melanie Adams, mezzo-soprano
William George, tenor
Michael Park, piano
Rita Attrot, piano
Stefan Hintersteininger, cello
Jeff Pelletier, flute
Lauris Davis, oboe/english horn
Julie Begg, clarinet
Adrian Verdejo, guitar
Julia Nolan, saxophone
January 31, 2015 • 8pmOrpheum Annex (823 Seymour Street)
Tickets: $25


The Song of Orpheus

Exploring & Expanding the Myth of Orpheus
 
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Orpheus by Franz von Stuck

Repertoire:
 
Repertoire:
Claudio Monteverdi – Prologue from “L’Orfeo”
C.W. von Gluck – selections from “Orphée ed Eurydice”
Anthony Genge – Songs of Orpheus
William Schuman – Orpheus with his lute
 
plus World Premieres
“Burnaby Mountain Song: Eurydice” by William George & Renée Sarojini Saklikar
“Sonnet III” by Catherine Laub & Rainer Maria Rilke
“Songs of Earth & Sea” by Lou Warde & Ariana Warde
& a new chamber opera:
“Watch the Hound,” by Stefan Hintersteininger & Maria Reva

Performers:
Catherine Laub, soprano
William George, tenor
Michael Park, piano
Adrian Verdejo, guitar
Samantha Fu, flute
Stefan Hintersteininger, cello
Christine Lin, violin
 
March 21, 2015 • 8pm
Orpheum Annex (823 Seymour Street)
Tickets: $25
 

 

21st Century Shakespeare


The Bard Reborn
 

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Contemporary musical settings of Shakespeare’s immortal words:

Christopher Berg: Fear No More the Heat O’ the Sun
Eugene Castillo: 2 Soliloquies from Love’s Labours Lost
Sondra Clark: That Time of Year
Scott Gendel: Since I Left You
William George: It Was A Lover and His Lass
Richard Gleaves: Cut Him Out In Tiny Stars
Stephen Gorbos: For Restful Death I Cry
Gustav Hoyer: Willow Song
Marga Richter: Two Sonnets
Kaija Saariaho: Ariel’s Hail
Lou Warde: Unless Thou Get A Son

plus World Premieres by:
Adam Hill
Stefan Hintersteininger

Catherine Laub

Performers:
Catherine Laub, soprano
Melanie Adams, mezzo-soprano
William George, tenor

Vaughn Chauvin, baritone
Michael Park, piano
Jeff Pelletier, flute
Adrian Verdejo, guitar
Albertina Chan, harp
Christine Lin, violin
Stefan Hintersteininger, cello
 
Mia K. Ingimundson & Donald Adams, actors
 
Pre-show talk with Mia and Donald at 7:30
 
May 23, 2015 • 8pm
Orpheum Annex (823 Seymour Street)
Tickets: $25
 

 

Erato thanks the City of Vancouver for their generous support!

Information on our August 1, 2014 concert
presented by the Queer Arts Festival: