Event

Voyages

Teatro Mistral presents 'Voyages' a journey through the sensuous, pictorial music of Maurice Ravel for voices and instruments at the elegant Noe Valley Ministry. Including a performance of the extraordinary Chansons madecasses!P remiered at the Salle Erard in Paris on June 13th, 1926. this haunting, impassioned erotic and exotic song cycle stands apart from Ravel's earlier vocal or chamber music in both the provocative subject matter of its text and the dramatic, emotionally charged nature of its musical setting. Though the first and third songs luxuriate in the sensual longings of ardent lovers, the center one tells a detailed story of the desecration wreaked by European invaders, the long and terrible carnage imposed and the final freedom won by the natives. This glorious tryptich for piano, cello, flute and voice is a musical voyage filled with languid delicacy and smoldering fire!

Also included: Ravel's exquisite final composition, Don Quichotte a Dulcinée, which was originally composed and offered as the score to the film Don Quixote immortalized by Feodor Chaliapin (though they were not used) - . his Chants Populaires in 4 folk dialects, the Vocalise en forme de Habanera in an arr. for solo flute and the plaintive Kaddisch/L'enigme eternelle transcribed for cello solo.

Artists:
Vismaya Lhi - Artistic Director/spinto soprano
Tristan Robben, baritone www.tristanrobben.com
Rachel Warner - contralto
Amy Likar - flute www.amylikar.com
Amy Brodo - cello
Dwight Okamura - pianist

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