GOAT HALL PRODUCTIONS
San Francisco Cabaret Opera
Harriet March Page, Artistic Director
FRESH VOICES XIX
FESTIVAL OF NEW WORKS
SOMETIMES A SCREAM
IS BETTER THAN A THESIS!
November 23, 2019 8:00PM
San Francisco Community Music Center
544 Capp Street
San Francisco, CA
PROGRAM
ACT I VEIL OF TEARS
Mark Alburger
Ecclesiastes, or The Preacher, Op. 3 (1975, after the Biblical text, c. 450 BC)
I. Vanity of Vanities
Megan Cullen, Soprano / Fresh Voices XIX Singers
The Bald Soprano, Op. 94 (2001, after Eugene Ionesco, 1909-1994, La Cantatrice chauve, 1950)
XVIII. ARIA: The Fire
Sarah Benzinger, Soprano / Mark Alburger, Piano
Jimmy Kachulis
Lament for a Lost Child
Heidi Moss, Soprano
Helena Michelson
This Quilt of Life
Teresa Foss, Soprano
Megan Cullen, Piano
Kurt Erickson
Here, Bullet and Curfew (Brian Turner)
Wayne Wong, Baritone
Kurt Erickson, Piano
- INTERMISSION -
ACT 2 MYTHICAL JOURNEYS
Sheli Nan
Last Stop Cafe (Suzanne Siskel)
Part 3
Heidi Moss and Sarah Benzinger, Sopranos
Meghan Dibble and Harriet March Page, Mezzo-Sopranos (Customers)
Mark Alburger, Tenor (Maitre d')
Wayne Wong, Voice (God)
Mark Alburger
Poems on Crane, Op. 4 (1975, after Stephen Crane, 1871-1900,
The Black Riders and Other Lines, 1895; War Is Kind and Other Lines, 1900)
I. I Saw a Man
II. The Wayfarer
III. Hymn
IV. The Blades of Grass
V. The Heart (In the Desert)
Harriet March Page, Mezzo-Soprano
Mark Alburger, Tenor
Martha Cooper, Piano
Allan Crossman
Omaha
Meghan Dibble, Mezzo-Soprano / Alan Crossman, Piano
Josiah Catalan
Conscience of a Blackened World (T.S. Elliot, 1888-1965, Preludes, 1911)
Heidi Moss, Soprano
Zachary M. Watkins
No Exit (Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905-1980, Huis Clos, 1944)
Teresa Foss, Soprano (Estelle Rigault)
Meghan Dibble, Mezzo-Soprano (Inès Serrano)
Wayne Wong, Baritone (Joseph Garcin)
Megan Cullen, Piano
Allan Crossman
Surface Swimmer
Meghan Dibble, Mezzo-Soprano / Alan Crossman, Piano
***
Another tremendous
Fresh Voices!
On the 229th day of summer,
high back up to 72...
Fairfield, 73
American Canyon / Pinole / San Rafael, 69
Berkeley, 65
Oakland, 62
San Francisco, 67
Petaluma, 71
... composing page 9
No Exit, Op. 330
IV. Don't Look Up
late...
