Corvid Ensemble presents: Quoth the Raven
$21.50 ($11.50 student / senior)
Reynaldo Hahn — Trois jours de vendange
Camille Saint-Saëns — Danse macabre, Op. 40
Laurie Betts Hughes — The Raven
George Crumb — The Sleeper
Edgar Stillman Kelley — Eldorado
Henry Purcell — "When I am laid in earth" (Dido's Lament) from Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626
Henry Purcell — Mad Bess
Rory Magill — Sista
Libby Larsen — Lift me into heaven slowly
Gustav Mahler — Das irdische Leben
Gustav Mahler — Das himmlische Leben
Gustav Mahler — Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen
Giacomo Puccini — Sola perduta abbandonata
Franz Schubert — String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D. 810 "Death and the Maiden"
Stephen Sondheim — "Every Day a Little Death" from A Little Night Music
Franz Schubert — Erlkönig, Op. 1, D. 328
Felix Mendelssohn — Selected works
Clarice Alfonso, soprano
Marjorie Bunday, founding producer & contralto
Christine Knackstedt Friday, mezzo-soprano
Lark Powers, piano
Eliza Woodyard, soprano
with
Ricardo de la Torre, piano
Dave Cuomo, reader
Like the crows of Seattle, we're smart, we do what we want, and we like shiny things.
We invite you to hear our shiny things on texts of Edgar Allen Poe, Dies Irae, and themes of death in our inaugural concert: world premiere by Northwest composer Laurie Betts Hughes (The Raven), as well as music by George Crumb, Gustav Mahler, Giacomo Puccini, Franz Schubert, Camille Saint-Saëns, Henry Purcell, Stephen Sondheim, and more.
Program (each half approximately 50-55 minutes):
chant/Brumel – Dies irae (sections performed throughout)
Purcell – When I am laid
Crumb – The Sleeper
Folk song – Cold blows the wind
Dies irae
Brahms – Intermezzo, Op. 118, No. 6
attr. Leonin – Breves dies hominis
Mendelssohn – Herbstlied
Mahler – Das irdische Leben
Dies irae
Hahn – Trois jours de vendange
Puccini – Sola, perduta, abbandonata
Purcell – Mad Bess
Schubert – Der Tod und das Mädchen
Schubert – Erlkönig
INTERMISSION
Dramatic reading – Poe – The City in the Sea
Saint-Saëns – Danse Macabre
Hughes – The Raven
Mahler – Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen
Kelley – Eldorado
Sondheim – Every day a little death
Urquhart –On this wondrous sea
Larsen – Lift me into heaven slowly
Mahler – Das himmlische Leben
Magill – Sista