Two concerts celebrating the City of Lights
Sponsorship by TFAA and its presenting partner TOTAL E&P, USA
Februrary 29, 2008, 8 pm
Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts
The works performed:
Pascal Dusapin Two Walking for two female voices (texts by Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein If I Told Him: A Portrait of Picasso
Paul Bowles Selected Songs
Virgil Thomson Selected Songs and Portraits
James Joyce Anna Livia Plurabelle from Finnegan’s Wake
Stephen Albert To Wake the Dead
The singers and musicians were Lucy Shelton, soprano; Karol Bennett, soprano; Thomas Meglioranza, baritone; Laura Flax, clarinet/bass clarinet; Leone Buyse, flute/alto flute/piccolo; Aloysia Friedmann, violin/viola; Norman Fischer, cello; Timothy Hester, piano/harmonium; Sarah Rothenberg, piano.