Beth Morrison Projects Presents: Persona by Keeril Makan & Jay Scheib
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Oct 23, 2015 • 8pm / doors 7:30pm
Oct 24, 2015 • 8pm / doors 7:30pm
Persona (World Premiere)
Music by Keeril Makan
Libretto by Jay Scheib after the film by Ingmar Bergman
Directed by Jay Scheib
Music Direction by Evan Ziporyn
Scenic Design by Caleb Wertenbaker
Video & Lighting Design by Josh Higgason
Costume Design by Oana Botez
Featuring Either/Or
with
Amanda Crider as ALMA
Lacey Dorn as ELISABET
Eve Gigliotti as DOCTOR
Joshua Jeremiah as MAN
Production Manager and Production Stage Manager Lindsey Turteltaub
Beth Morrison Projects (National Sawdust group-in-residence) is the producer of this new work, which it co-commissioned with the venue. Composed by Rome Prize-winner Keeril Makan, with music direction by Evan Ziporyn and a libretto and direction by Jay Scheib, one of American Theater’s “Top 25 Directors Likely to Shape American Performance Over the Next 25 Years,” Persona is a provocative, highly cerebral, and artistically complex depiction of human frailty, cruelty, and identity.
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Beth Morrison Projects Presents: Music by Keeril Makan
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Works By Keeril Makan
"The Noise Between Thoughts"
"Return"
"Washed by Fire"
Performed by the Aeolus Quartet (Nicholas Tavini, Violin; Rachel Shapiro, Violin; Gregory Luce, Viola; Alan Richardson, Cello)
This concert, offering the New York premieres of three works by Rome Prize-winner Keeril Makan, is presented in conjunction with the world premiere of Makan and director/librettist Jay Scheib's new work "Persona," co-commissioned by National Sawdust and Beth Morrison Projects.
The New Yorker writes that "Makan moves blocks of jagged sound around with the pitiless determination of a brutalist architect (“The Noise Between Thoughts”) and crafts the most humble chords and scraps of melody into a lulling whole (“Washed by Fire”),” and the Boston Globe remarks about “Return", "There are delicately drawn harmonics and crushed, violent chords. Even in just one hearing, a distilled quality of thought emerges from this score, and an intensely honed sense of solitude."
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Works By Keeril Makan
"The Noise Between Thoughts"
"Return"
"Washed by Fire"
Performed by the Aeolus Quartet (Nicholas Tavini, Violin; Rachel Shapiro, Violin; Gregory Luce, Viola; Alan Richardson, Cello)
This concert, offering the New York premieres of three works by Rome Prize-winner Keeril Makan, is presented in conjunction with the world premiere of Makan and director/librettist Jay Scheib's new work "Persona," co-commissioned by National Sawdust and Beth Morrison Projects.
The New Yorker writes that "Makan moves blocks of jagged sound around with the pitiless determination of a brutalist architect (“The Noise Between Thoughts”) and crafts the most humble chords and scraps of melody into a lulling whole (“Washed by Fire”),” and the Boston Globe remarks about “Return", "There are delicately drawn harmonics and crushed, violent chords. Even in just one hearing, a distilled quality of thought emerges from this score, and an intensely honed sense of solitude."
Makan's works will be performed by the Aeolus Quartet, winners of the 2011 Plowman Chamber Music Competition.
Beth Morrison Projects Presents: Persona by Keeril Makan & Jay Scheib
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Created and performed by Evan Ziporyn and Christine Southworth.
Co-created by composers Evan Ziporyn and Christine Southworth, "In My Mind & In My Car" is an audio-visual extravaganza of live bass clarinet, videos, and electronics. This performance is presented by Beth Morrison Projects in conjunction with the world premiere of composer Keeril Makan and librettist/director Jay Scheib's new work "Persona," with music direction by Ziporyn. Persona is co-commissioned by National Sawdust and Beth Morrison Projects.
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Beth Morrison Projects Presents: Persona by Keeril Makan & Jay Scheib
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Beth Morrison Projects and HERE’s PROTOTYPE Present: SAGA
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Referring to the epics composed in Iceland and Greenland between the 12th -14th centuries, and to Sága, the Norse goddess of history & storytelling, this evening stands midway between a modern opera & a song cycle. Dez Mona tells stories about the soul, and goes in search of their love for the land, a home, and the world in which they live.
Referring to the epics composed in Iceland and Greenland between the 12th -14th centuries, and to Sága, the Norse goddess of history & storytelling, this evening stands midway between a modern opera & a song cycle. Dez Mona tells stories about the soul, and goes in search of their love for the land, a home, and the world in which they live.
