cosÌ fAn tutte - Manhattan School of Music

“Music conveysmoods and images.Even in opera, whereplots deal with thestructure of destiny,it’s music, not words, thatprovides power.”—Marcel Marceau4/25–4/29Corigliano’sTHE Ghosts ofVersaillesLibretto by William M. Hoffmanafter Beaumarchais’s playLa Mère coupable (1792)Steven Osgood, ConductorJay Lesinger, DirectorMSM Opera Theater, Dona D. Vaughn,Artistic DirectorAn opera-within-an-opera—describedby the composer as “grand operabuffa”—about the afterlife of theCourt of Louis XVI12/7–12/11Mozart’sCosì fan tutteLibretto by Lorenzo Da PonteIsrael Gursky, ConductorDona D. Vaughn, DirectorMSM Opera Theater,Dona D. Vaughn, Artistic DirectorThe story of two soldiers whodisguise themselves to testtheir lovers’ fidelity (in whichappearances are not onlydeceiving, but seductive)11/2Ligeti’s Mysteriesof the MacabreMSM Percussion Ensembleand MSM Brass OrchestraJeffrey Milarsky and Mark Gould,Music DirectorsBrian McWhorter, Trumpet,as GepopoA solo trumpet arrangement ofthree pyrotechnic soprano arias fromLigeti’s opera Le grand macabre, inwhich Gepopo, chief of the secretpolice, frantically tries to warnPrince Go-Go that a comet is aboutto destroy their planet“Music, in performance,is a type of sculpture.The air in theperformance is sculptedinto something.”—Frank Zappa“The painterturns a poeminto a painting;the musician sets apicture to music.”—Robert Schumannsoundandimage12/9, 2/7, 3/28SONIC SCULPTURESPresented ByJeffrey MilarskyDirector of Msm’s ContemporaryPerformance Program andPercussion EnsembleReich’s Eight Linesand Druckman’sCome Round 12/9Stockhausen’sCrossPlay 2/7Wood’s Cloud-Polyphonies 3/2811/4Mussorgsky’sPictures at anExhibitionMSM PhilharmoniaGeorge Manahan, ConductorThe Ravel orchestration ofMussorgsky’s tribute to Russianartist Viktor Hartmannmemorializing an exhibit ofhis works2/16Debussy’sL’isle joyeuseLives of the PianoA piece inspired by Watteau’spainting L’embarquement pourCythère, featured on Lisa Yiu’sbirthday tribute to Debussy1011