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November 2007 NEWSLETTER Argo Gherardi, Editor November, 2007 BOARD ELECTION GALA BENEFIT CONCERT NOV. 13, 2007 WEST VALLEY COLLEGE THEATER The West Valley Masterworks Chorale is cel- On September 12, the Board of Directors accepted ebrating the 30th anniversary of its founding with the recommendations of the Nominating Committee a Gala Benefit Concert in the West Valley College as follows: Theater Sat., Dec. 8, 2007 at 8:00PM. The program OFFICERS will also feature musicians from the College’s other President, Ann Haggerty ensembles. Proceeds from the evening’s festivities Vice President, Myrna Fleckles will go to the West Valley College Music Scholarship Recording Secretary, Margaret Boddy Fund. Our featured guest artists will be New York City Corresponding Secretary, Nina Gherardi Opera soprano, Eilana Lappalainen, a former West Treasurer, Norman Tarowsky Valley College student, and San Francisco Opera tenor, Parlimentarian, Gerald Pighini Stephen Guggenheim, a resident of Saratoga. Both NEW DIRECTORS singers will sing from their solo repertoire as well as Wendy Dewell with West Valley choirs. Hannelore Romney Finnish-Canadian soprano Eilana Lappalainen is Doug Turner quickly becoming one of the world’s most sought after Connie Zillis interpreters of Strauss’s Salome. Since her 1996 role Steve Zillis debut in the acclaimed Felsenstein production, which DIRECTORS RETURNING FOR 2008 TERM performed for six consecutive years, she has performed Corinne Elliott Carter Mary E. Riley the role in major opera houses in Germany, Italy, Po- Dominic A. Donato Joan Shomler land, Switzerland, Japan, Canada and throughout the Susan English Jack H. Silveira US. Jan Eurich Margaret B. Slemmons The July 2002 Opera News review of the Seat- Lea F. Frey Ginger Stoddard tle production states: “Lappalainen’s extraordinary Argo Gherardi Alice Swanson physical lightness and agility, her diverse vocal palette Peggy Heiman Elliot Swanson and her grasp of the character’s complexity were deep- Joy Hulme Dorothy Tarowsky ly moving... Her dance of the seven veils is simply Judy Jaeger Beth Weymer the best I’ve ever seen (including Welitsch, Borkh and Olga Nespole Phyllis Whitney Stratas – on film, perhaps the greatest Salome ever.)” Lari Yamaguchi Tenor Stephen Guggenheim has been heralded as Serving on the Nominating Committee were Nina “a talent to be watched.” “His voice is a magnificent Gherardi (Chair), Susan English, Peggy Heiman, Mar- instrument, capable of great variety.” (The Herald) Mr. garet Slemmons and Beth Weymer. Guggenheim’s career has taken him to the stages of The election of officers and directors will take the world’s greatest opera houses and concert halls. place at the final Fall lecture at the Montalvo Center Tickets to this very special event include Dress Cir- on November 13. Please plan to attend and cast your cle ($100) and Conductor’s Circle ($50), both of which vote. GALA BENEFIT, FROM PAGE 1 include a post-concert Artists’ Reception. Additional For more information, please call 408.741.4663 or orchestra seating is also available for $20 (sides) and visit our website, HYPERLINK “http://www.west- $25 (back). Tickets are now on sale through the West valleychoirs.org” www.westvalleychoirs.org Valley College Choral Office. LOVE IT OR HATE IT SIT BACK AND ENJOY THE BAY AREA’S CELEBRATION OF THE INIMITABLE MUSIC OF PHILIP GLASS by Mort Levine Back in the mid-19th century when opera was that opened October 5 in San Francisco is a case in really riding high, so were composers. When Verdi point where Glass weaves intricate patterns of hymns, or Rossini came to town, the crowds would fill the old marching songs and folk tunes into the fabric of streets, cheer their hero and sing a favorite melody. the opera. This month in the Bay Area, you may not see a Music lovers hereabouts will find it difficult to wild throng following Philip Glass around or singing avoid the Glass doings here in our county as well as a favorite tune from a Glass opera. Not likely. But the throughout the Bay Area. Glass and his current libret- world’s most successful and prolific living composer tist, Christopher Hampton, are giving lectures, panel is celebrating his 70th birthday here with a whole se- discussions and forums. They began in mid Septem- ries of performances and events. ber and continue through October. Such a description may raise more than a few ob- Stanford’s imposing Lively Arts season was jections and some hackles, especially from traditional launched with a Philip Glass musical setting of poems classical music and opera lovers. Glass, early in his by Leonard Cohen called the Book of Longing. The career, broke the mold with his minimalist, austere Other Minds Festival in SF brought conductor Dennis repetitions which were almost hypnotic for some and Russell Davies to perform piano works by Glass. The considered subversive by others. He even had to cre- San Francisco Conservatory BluePrint Festival fea- ate his own ensemble because conventional orchestras tures Glass’ Facade. There are choral and chamber couldn’t or wouldn’t do his pieces. Indeed it found re- works being performed and even a special exhibit at sponsive listeners among the young and the devotees the California Historical Society. It’s an astonishing of rock and electronic music. outpouring and a major league tribute. He managed to cross over into the mainstream Our opera travels over the past thirty years have a few decades ago with music for movies like Koy- brought my wife and me opportunities to sample much aanisqatsi and even commercials. A raft of orchestral of Glass’ output. As we reflect upon it, the range is daz- works and several operas brought him ever larger au- zling. Among the standouts were the Voyage, done at diences. He also began selling lots of records, being NY’s Met, Dracula in London, The Photographer at offered a plethora of commissions and proving to be Santa Cruz’ Cabrillo Festival, 1000 Airplanes on the extremely prolific. Roof at Berkeley, and Satyagraha at San Francisco (it Glass also proved inspirational for other talent- will be put on at the Met again in April). True, not all ed composers. His influence on John Adams, Steve were winners. One eminently forgettable work with Reich and their successors is greatly influencing mu- director Robert Wilson we saw at Brooklyn Academy sic today. of Music couldn’t even be recalled to memory. No- David Gockley, San Francisco’s general direc- body is perfect. tor, has worked with Glass for many years from the This current homage to a living composer is in- 1984 Akhnaten through to this month’s Appomattox. deed a rarity. In our opinion, Philip Glass’ success is He says Glass’ music today is far more lyrical and well-deserved. But as we noted, opinions differ. richer in color than in the past. The world premiere PAGE 2 SAN JOSÉ OPERA GUILD CAREER UPDATES Two former Adler Fellows, both alumni of the pany of Philadelphia. In November Kirk will sing Merola Opera Program, have won awards. Karen Louis in A View From the Bridge, with the Washington Slack won first prize and a check for $50,000 at National Opera, at the Kennedy Center Opera House, the first annual José Iturbi Foundation Competition. DC. In January, Kirk will be the cover for Warrior Gerald Thompson received a Kolozsvar Award from in Macbeth at The Metropolitan Opera, then will sing New York City Opera for his performance as Guido as a soloist in Verdi’s Requiem with the Oakland East in Handel’s Flavio. Bravi! Another potential award Bay Symphony at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland winner is Rochelle Bard. She is a current Resident (1/29/08). Artist with Opera San José and has been invited to the Semi-Finals of the Seoul International Music Compe- 2003 Merola alumnus, Vale Rideout highlights tition in Korea at the end of November. his 2007-2008 season on his website. He has sung Frank in the world premiere of Elmer Gantry with Three Merola alumni performed in three of last Nashville Opera. The Minnesota Opera cast Vale as summer’s productions at the Santa Fe Opera. Mer- Atis, in Reinhard Keiser’s Croesus. He will be fea- edith Arwady was Gaea, Daphne’s mother, in Rich- tured as a soloist in Britten’s War Requiem with the ard Strauss’ Daphne. In the first five performances Los Angeles Philharmonic in January, 2008. of Puccini’s La Bohème, Jennifer Black was Mimi. Così Fan Tutte featured former Adler Fellow, Dale Laura Claycomb, 1989 and 1990 Merola Travis, as Don Alfonso. alumna, will be performing in Texas in November. She will sing Marie in Donizetti’s, La Fille du Régi- Although San Francisco’s opera season has just ment, with the Houston Grand Opera on November 3, begun, opera goers have seen two Merola Alumni in 6, and 9, 2007. Also in November Laura will present important roles in two operas. Oren Gradus sang as in Dallas, Texas a recital and a master class for the The Old Hebrew in Camille Saint-Saens’ Samson and National Association of Teachers of Singing Conven- Delilah. Upcoming engagements for Oren include tion at the Southern Methodist University campus. Publio in La Clemenza di Tito at the Teatro Comunale In January, she will travel to London to perform as in Bologna, and his debut with the Los Angeles Opera a soloist with the London Symphony Orchestra in as Colline in La Bohème. Soprano Ji Young Yang, Mahler’s Fourth Symphony. a first year Adler Fellow and participant in the 2006 Merola Opera Program, made her San Francisco Op- OSJ alumna, Barbara Divis, just completed era debut as the Shepard in Tannhäuser and appeared singing Mimi in La Bohème with Opera Idaho.
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