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fleming + texts.qxp_Layout 1 9/20/19 10:56 AM Page 1 Saturday, October 5, 2019, 8pm Zellerbach Hall Renée Fleming, soprano Richard Bado, piano Franz SCHUBERT (1797 –1828) Suleika I, D. 720 Lied der Mignon: Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt, D. 877, No. 4 Die Vögel, D. 691 Rastlose Liebe, D. 138 Reynaldo HAHN (1874 –1947) Si mes vers avaient des ailes Léo DELIBES (1836 –1891) Les filles de Cadix Franz LISZT (1811 –1886) S’il est un charmant gazon, S. 284 Oh! quand je dors, S. 282 INTERMISSION Kevin PUTS (b. 1972) Selections from Letters from Georgia Introduction and Taos Canyon Bernard HERRMANN (1911 –1975) “I Have Dreamt” from Wuthering Heights Franz LEHÁR (1870 –1948) “Warum hast du mich wachgeküsst” from Friederike LEHAR “Ich bin verliebt” from Schön ist die Welt André PREVIN (1929 –2019) “I Want Magic” from A Streetcar Named Desire Richard RODGERS (1902 –1979) “e Sound of Music” from and Oscar HAMMERSTEIN II (1895 –1960) e Sound of Music Adam GUETTEL (b. 1964) “Fable” from e Light in the Piazza Cal Performances’ 2019 –20 season is sponsored by Wells Fargo. fleming + texts.qxp_Layout 1 9/20/19 10:56 AM Page 2 ABOUT THE ARTISTS Troy to open e Shed in New York City. In June, she made her London musical theater debut as Margaret Johnson in e Light in the Piazza , and she will bring her acclaimed por - trayal to Los Angeles and Chicago this fall. Fleming earned a Tony Award nomination for her performance in the 2018 Broadway pro - duction of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carou - sel . Her new album, Lieder: Brahms, Schumann, and Mahler , was released by Decca in June. She is heard on the soundtracks of the 2018 Best Picture Oscar winner e Shape of Water and ree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri , and she provided the singing voice of Roxane, played by Julianne Moore, in the film of Ann Patchett’s bestselling novel Bel Canto . Fleming has recorded everything from com - plete operas and song recitals to indie rock and jazz; and her album Signatures was selected by e t i h the US Library of Congress for the National W y h Recording Registry as an “aural treasure wor - t o m i thy of preservation as part of America’s patri - T – a c mony.” Known for bringing new audiences to c e D classical music and opera, Fleming has sung not only with Plácido Domingo and Andrea Renée Fleming (soprano ) is one of the most Bocelli, but also with Elton John, Sting, Josh highly acclaimed singers of our time, perform - Groban, and Joan Baez. She has hosted an array ing on the stages of the world’s greatest opera of television and radio broadcasts, including the houses and concert halls. Winner of four Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series and Live Grammy awards, and presented with the US from Lincoln Center . National Medal of Arts by President Obama, In her role as Artistic Advisor to the John Fleming has sung for momentous occasions F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, ranging from the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony Fleming launched a collaboration with the US to the Diamond Jubilee Concert for HM Queen National Institutes of Health, with participation Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. In 2014, by the National Endowment of the Arts, focused Fleming brought her voice to a vast new audi - on the science connecting music, health, and the ence as the first classical artist ever to sing the brain. Over the past year, she has given more US National Anthem at the Super Bowl. In than 20 presentations with scientists and prac - 2008, Fleming was the first woman in the 125- titioners across North America on this subject. year history of the Metropolitan Opera to solo In 2010, Fleming was named the first-ever headline an opening night gala. Creative Consultant at Lyric Opera of Chicago. Fleming’s schedule this season includes con - She is a member of the board of trustees of Car - certs in New York, Boston, Vienna, Paris, Tokyo, negie Hall, the board of Sing for Hope, and the and Beijing. is past summer, she performed artistic advisory board of the Polyphony Foun - the world premieres of André Previn’s Penelope dation. She is also a spokesperson for the Amer- and Kevin Puts’ e Brightness of Light at i can Musical erapy Association. Fleming’s Tangle wood. Last April, Fleming appeared memoir e Inner Voice , published in 2004, opposite Ben Whishaw in Norma Jean Baker of is currently in its 16th printing. Among her fleming + texts.qxp_Layout 1 9/20/19 10:56 AM Page 3 ABOUT THE ARTISTS awards are the Fulbright Lifetime Achieve ment conducted the Robert Wilson production of Medal, Germany’s Cross of the Order of Merit, Virgil omson’s Four Saints in ree Acts France’s Chevalier de la Légion d’Hon neur, and at the Edinburgh Festival. is season Bado honorary membership in the Royal Academy returns to the Houston Ballet to conduct of Music. www.reneefleming.com. performances of e Nutcracker . An accom - plished pianist, Bado appears regularly with Renée Fleming in recital. He has also played for Cecilia Bartoli, Frederica von Stade, Susan Graham, Denyce Graves, Marcello Giordani, Ramon Vargas, Samuel Ramey, Jamie Barton, Ryan McKinney, and Nathan Gunn. Bado, who holds music degrees from the Eastman School of Music, where he received the 2000 Alumni Achievement Award, and West Vir - ginia University, has studied advanced choral conducting with Robert Shaw. Bado is the director of artistic operations and chorus master for the Houston Grand Opera, where he received the Silver Rose Award in 2013. He has also appeared on A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keil - lor. For 12 years, he was the director of the opera studies program at Rice University’s Richard Bado (piano ) is a native of Pitts - Shepherd School of Music. Bado has been on burgh, Pennsylvania, and made his profes - the faculty of the Aspen Music Festival and sional conducting debut in 1989, leading the School, the Dolora Zajick Institute for Young Houston Grand Opera’s acclaimed produc - Dramatic Voices, the International Vocal tion of Show Boat at the newly restored Cairo School in Moscow, and the Texas Music Festi - Opera House in Egypt. Since then, he has con - val, and has served on the music staff of the ducted at Teatro alla Scala, Opéra National Metropolitan Opera, Seattle Opera, Bol shoi de Paris, Houston Grand Opera, New York Opera Young Artist Program, Opera Austra - City Opera, the Aspen Music Festival, Tulsa lia, Opera eater of St. Louis, Utah Opera, Opera, the Russian National Orchestra, the Chautauqua Opera, and Wolf Trap Opera. He Florida Philharmonic, the Montreal Sym - regularly judges for the Metro politan Opera phony, and Wolf Trap Opera; he has also National Council Auditions. fleming + texts.qxp_Layout 1 9/20/19 10:56 AM Page 4 fleming + texts.qxp_Layout 1 9/20/19 10:56 AM Page 5 TEXTS & TRANSLATIONS FRANz ScHUBERT Suleika 1, D. 720 [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Was bedeutet die Bewegung? What does this stirring mean? Bringt der Ost mir frohe Kunde? Does the east wind bring me happy tidings? Seiner Schwingen frische Regung e rejuvenating movement of its wings Kühlt des Herzens tiefe Wunde. cools my heart’s deep wound. Kosend spielt er mit dem Staube, It plays sweetly with the dust, Jagt ihn auf in leichten Wölkchen, throwing it up in light clouds, Treibt zur sichern Rebenlaube and sends a happy swarm of insects Der Insekten frohes Völkchen. to their safety in the vine-leaves. Lindert san der Sonne Glühen, It gently soens the sun’s burning heat Kühlt auch mir die heissen Wangen, and cools my warm cheeks; Küsst die Reben noch im Fliehen, even as it blows it kisses the vines Die auf Feld und Hügel prangen. that decorate the fields and hillsides. Und mir bringt sein leises Flüstern And its so whispering brings me Von dem Freunde tausend Grüsse; a thousand greetings from my beloved; Eh’ noch diese Hügel düstern, before the hills get dark Grüssen mich wohl tausend Küsse. I will be met with a thousand kisses. Und so kannst du weiter ziehen! Now you might move on, Diene Freunden und Betrübten. and serve the happy and the sad; Dort wo hohe Mauern glühen, there, where high walls glow, Dort find’ ich bald den Vielgeliebten. I will soon find my beloved. Ach, die wahre Herzenskunde, Ah, the real message of the heart, Liebeshauch, erfrischtes Leben breath of love, life renewed Wird mir nur aus seinem Munde, will come to me from only his lips, Kann mir nur sein Atem geben. can be given to me by his breath only. Lied der Mignon: Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt Only one who knows longing From 4 Gesänge aus ‘Wilhelm Meister,’ D. 877 [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt Only one who knows longing Weiss, was ich leide! Knows what I suffer! Allein und abgetrennt Alone and cut off Von aller Freude, From all joys, Seh’ ich an’s Firmament I gaze across the firmament Nach jener Seite. Toward the other side. Ach! der mich liebt und kennt Ah! he who loves and knows me Ist in der Weite. Is far away. Es schwindelt mir, es brennt I am reeling, Mein Eingeweide. I am burning deep inside. Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt Only one who knows longing Weiss, was ich leide! Knows what I suffer! fleming + texts.qxp_Layout 1 9/20/19 10:56 AM Page 6 TEXTS & TRANSLATIONS Die Vögel D. 691 Birds [Friedrich von Schlegel] Wie lieblich und fröhlich, How lovely and delightful Zu schweben, zu singen, To float, to sing, Von glänzender Höhe From the dazzling heights Zur Erde zu blicken! To look down at the earth! Die Menschen sind thöricht, Men are foolish: Sie können nicht fliegen ey don’t know how to fly.
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    1 LEONARD BERNSTEIN AT 100 New York Content & Review Boosey & Hawkes, Inc. Marie Carter Table of Contents 229 West 28th St, 11th Floor Trudy Chan New York, NY 10001 Patrick Gullo 2 A Welcoming USA Steven Lankenau +1 (212) 358-5300 4 Introduction (English) [email protected] Introduction 8 Introduction (Español) www.boosey.com Carol J. Oja 11 Introduction (Deutsch) The Leonard Bernstein Office, Inc. Translations 14 A Leonard Bernstein Timeline 121 West 27th St, Suite 1104 Straker Translations New York, NY 10001 Jens Luckwaldt 16 Orchestras Conducted by Bernstein USA Dr. Kerstin Schüssler-Bach 18 Abbreviations +1 (212) 315-0640 Sebastián Zubieta [email protected] 21 Works www.leonardbernstein.com Art Direction & Design 22 Stage Kristin Spix Design 36 Ballet London Iris A. Brown Design Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Limited 36 Full Orchestra Aldwych House Printing & Packaging 38 Solo Instrument(s) & Orchestra 71-91 Aldwych UNIMAC Graphics London, WC2B 4HN 40 Voice(s) & Orchestra UK Cover Photograph 42 Ensemble & Chamber without Voice(s) +44 (20) 7054 7200 Alfred Eisenstaedt [email protected] 43 Ensemble & Chamber with Voice(s) www.boosey.com Special thanks to The Leonard Bernstein 45 Chorus & Orchestra Office, The Craig Urquhart Office, and the Berlin Library of Congress 46 Piano(s) Boosey & Hawkes • Bote & Bock GmbH 46 Band Lützowufer 26 The “g-clef in letter B” logo is a trademark of 47 Songs in a Theatrical Style 10787 Berlin Amberson Holdings LLC. Deutschland 47 Songs Written for Shows +49 (30) 2500 13-0 2015 & © Boosey & Hawkes, Inc. 48 Vocal [email protected] www.boosey.de 48 Choral 49 Instrumental 50 Chronological List of Compositions 52 CD Track Listing LEONARD BERNSTEIN AT 100 2 3 LEONARD BERNSTEIN AT 100 A Welcoming Leonard Bernstein’s essential approach to music was one of celebration; it was about making the most of all that was beautiful in sound.
  • Ann Patchett, Bel Canto (New York: Harpercollins Publishers, 2001

    Ann Patchett, Bel Canto (New York: Harpercollins Publishers, 2001

    133 Reviews DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2019-0010 American, British and Canadian Studies, Volume 32, June 2019 Ann Patchett, Bel Canto (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2001. $16.00 paperback). Pp. 318 ISBN 0-06-093441-7 and Bel Canto (Priority Pictures/ Depth of Field/ A-Line Pictures 2018), directed by Paul Weitz. Screenplay by Paul Weitz and Anthony Weintraub, based on the novel by Ann Patchett. 1h 40min. Starring Julianne Moore, Ken Watanabe, Sebastian Koch, Ryo Kase, Christopher Lambert. When Ann Patchett’s fourth novel, Bel Canto , was published in 2001, it was met with almost universal praise from critics, also winning the prestigious PEN/ Faulkner Award for Fiction, and rightfully so: it is a modern classic infused, from the first to the last page, with the author’s scintillating prose that unfolds gradually, to the beat of an inner rhythm reminding one of the architecture of classical opera. Unfortunately, as it is often the case in classical opera, whatever rare happy end exists is decidedly more bitter than sweet. The novel is inspired by a real-life hostage crisis taking place in the Peruvian capital Lima in 1996, when members of the Tupac Amaru revolutionary guerrillas stormed the Japanese Embassy in the middle of an official reception to celebrate the Emperor’s birthday and took almost six hundred high profile guests as hostages; the crisis dragged on for months before Peruvian security forces stormed the compound and killed all the rebels, releasing the remaining prisoners. By and large, Patchett preserved all the features of this dramatic incident in her novel, but added one more ingredient that she felt such a crisis required: a world-famous lyric soprano named Roxane Coss.