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Zeitgeist: George Crumb at 90


October 10, 2019
Harold Prince Theatre
PLA Presents
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A collection of George Crumb’s most evocative music performed by Philadelphia’s Arcana New Music Ensemble. The program features the haunting setting Apparition, with texts drawn from Walt Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d.” and all four books of Madrigals with text by Spanish poet Federico García Lorca.

PROGRAM

Dream Sequence (Images II) (1976) 
Molly Germer, violin; Eric Coyne, cello ; Alyssa Resh, percussion; David Hughes, piano 

Mundus Canis (A Dog’s World) (1998)
Jordan Dodson, guitar; Andy Thierauf, percussion

Apparition (1979)
Alize Rozsnyai, soprano; David Hughes, piano

Eleven Echoes of Autumn (Echoes I) (1965)
Molly Germer, violin; Anthony Bob, alto flute; Andrew Moses, clarinet; David Hughes, piano 

Madrigals, Book I – IV (1965, 1969)
Elisa Sutherland, mezzo-soprano; Nicholas Handahl, flute; Elizabeth Steiner, harp; Andy Thierauf, percussion; Davi Ciriaco, double bass

About Zeitgeist: George Crumb at 90

Bowerbird, the University of Pennsylvania Department of Music and Annenberg Center Presents are pleased to present Zeitgeist: George Crumb at 90, a three concert festival celebrating more than seventy years of music by Grammy® and Pulitzer Prize®-winning composer George Crumb. Crumb’s music often juxtaposes contrasting musical styles, ranging from music of the western art-music tradition, to hymns and folk music, to non-Western musics. Many of Crumb’s works include programmatic, symbolic, mystical and theatrical elements, which are often reflected in his beautiful and meticulously notated scores. A shy, yet warmly eloquent personality, Crumb retired from his teaching position at the University of Pennsylvania after more than thirty years of service. Honored by numerous institutions with honorary Doctorates, and the recipient of dozens of awards and prizes, Crumb makes his home just outside of Philadelphia, in the same house where he and his wife of more than sixty years raised their three children.

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Co-presented by Bowerbird, the University of Pennsylvania Department of Music and Annenberg Center Presents.

Support for this project has been provided by the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.