The Concert Singers of Cary Presents: Barber: The Lovers, Other Love Songs With Orchestra
May 10, 2014
7:30 PM
Doors Open: 7:00 PM
Doors Open: 7:00 PM
American Love Songs
Presenting The North Carolina premiere of Samuel Barber’s The Lovers with The Concert Singers of Cary, The Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle and baritone John Kramar
Saturday, May 10th at 7:30PM
Samuel Barber created The Lovers during the years 1969-71 when not only was his longtime partnership with Gian Carlo Menotti, the acclaimed opera composer, deteriorating, but he was still being haunted by the failure of Antony and Cleopatra at the Metropolitan Opera (1966). This life experience is reflected in the despair of Pablo Neruda’s poetic exploration of the loss of love both erotic and spiritual. When you hear this music, try to feel the anguish of its composer as he faced these difficulties only to gradually become overwhelmed by his unconscious wounds and vulnerabilities, which in turn further stoked the fires of love gone wrong. Then, into this toxic brew, mix his worsening alcoholism. Given this context, one better understands why Barber chose Neruda’s passionate song of despair and why the music connects us so vividly to a situation that no one can escape. In some sense, our greatest loves remain with us equally and always, both those we have kept and those we have lost. In this regard, Barber’s musical approach to the text ultimately helps us heal our losses for the purpose of more fully experiencing the totality of love in all its joys and sorrows. Originally scored for an eighty-piece ensemble, this performance will utilize a fifteen-player chamber orchestra setting by Dr. Robert Kyr. Also featured are love themed works by Eric Whitacre, Duke Ellington, René Clausen, Stephen Paulus and Jerome Kern.
Tickets left at Will Call may be picked up at the box office up to one hour prior to the show.
Presenting The North Carolina premiere of Samuel Barber’s The Lovers with The Concert Singers of Cary, The Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle and baritone John Kramar
Saturday, May 10th at 7:30PM
Samuel Barber created The Lovers during the years 1969-71 when not only was his longtime partnership with Gian Carlo Menotti, the acclaimed opera composer, deteriorating, but he was still being haunted by the failure of Antony and Cleopatra at the Metropolitan Opera (1966). This life experience is reflected in the despair of Pablo Neruda’s poetic exploration of the loss of love both erotic and spiritual. When you hear this music, try to feel the anguish of its composer as he faced these difficulties only to gradually become overwhelmed by his unconscious wounds and vulnerabilities, which in turn further stoked the fires of love gone wrong. Then, into this toxic brew, mix his worsening alcoholism. Given this context, one better understands why Barber chose Neruda’s passionate song of despair and why the music connects us so vividly to a situation that no one can escape. In some sense, our greatest loves remain with us equally and always, both those we have kept and those we have lost. In this regard, Barber’s musical approach to the text ultimately helps us heal our losses for the purpose of more fully experiencing the totality of love in all its joys and sorrows. Originally scored for an eighty-piece ensemble, this performance will utilize a fifteen-player chamber orchestra setting by Dr. Robert Kyr. Also featured are love themed works by Eric Whitacre, Duke Ellington, René Clausen, Stephen Paulus and Jerome Kern.
Tickets left at Will Call may be picked up at the box office up to one hour prior to the show.
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