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559288 Bk Wuorinen US CANADIAN CLASSICS CLASSIQUES CANADIENS Brian CURRENT Airline Icarus Carla Huhtanen, Soprano Krisztina Szabó, Mezzo-soprano Graham Thomson, Tenor Alexander Dobson, Baritone Geoffrey Sirett, Baritone Brian Current, Conductor Brian Brian Current (b. 1972) CURRENT Airline Icarus (b. 1972) Airline Icarus is about the intersecting thoughts of our power to create wonderful things, as sings the Pilot in Airline Icarus (2001-2005) 43:46 passengers aboard a commercial airplane. It explores his aria – No peace so great. No joy so pure % –as themes of hubris mixed with technology, the forced soaring Icarus must have thought before the moment he Chamber opera for five soloists, chamber chorus, intimacy of strangers and flying too close to the sun. Over disappeared. nine musicians and soundfiles the course of the work, the plane becomes brighter and Libretto by Anton Piatigorsky (b. 1972) eventually vanishes. From notes by Brian Current made at Yaddo colony, In September of 1983, a Korean commercial flight Saratoga Springs, NY in December 2003. 1 Baggage Man – 1:28 was shot down over the Soviet Union’s eastern coast. 2 Prepare for Departure – 3:02 They said they thought it was a spy plane. Rather than hit 3 Safety Demonstration – 3:24 the plane directly, the missile struck its wing, and the Production History 4 Time for Take Off – 3:19 plane “fell like a leaf for an excruciating twelve to fifteen 5 Absolut – 1:59 minutes”. I couldn’t help but to think about the people Airline Icarus was commissioned in 2001 by Opera Breve 6 The Scholar – 1:18 aboard for years after. Later when visiting with Anton Vancouver. Further workshops and excerpts were 7 Business Man and Ad Exec – 3:12 Piatigorsky, I told him I was looking for ideas about presented by Tapestry New Opera, Soundstreams, New 8 Flight Attendant – 0:55 theatrical works and mentioned the Korean airliner. Anton York City Opera Vox Festival, Fort Worth New Frontiers and 9 All is normal – 4:42 told me that he had just written a poem about the absurd Opera America. In 2011, Airline Icarus was awarded the 0 Technology's Success – 1:33 little society we often take for granted aboard commercial Italian Premio Fedora Award by a jury chaired by Louis ! Business Man – 1:06 flights and the unsettling mixture of hubris and Andriessen. It received a staged première in Verbania, Italy @ The Airplane Shakes – 2:07 technology: we’ll make small talk and watch movies while in April 2011 with the composer conducting. In November # The Airplane Disappears – 5:57 inches outside the window is a glorious cloudscape or 2012 it was presented in concert at The Royal Conservatory $ The Pilot’s Aria – 7:03 freezing certain-death. in collaboration with Maniac Star, the rehearsals of which % Epilogue 2:41 He later proposed the perfect metaphor for what we formed the basis of the present recording. Maniac Star and Ad Exec . Carla Huhtanen, Soprano were trying to do: Icarus. Icarus, you’ll remember, flew too Soundstreams created the North American première in Flight Attendant . Krisztina Szabó, Mezzo-soprano close to the sun and his wax wings melted and he fell to the June of 2014, directed by Tim Albery. Scholar . Graham Thomson, Tenor earth in a blaze of light. His father, Daedalus, looked for Worker/Pilot . Alexander Dobson, Baritone him, crying: “Icarus, where are you!” and “Damn this art!” Business Man . Geoffrey Sirett, Baritone To me, one of the most interesting parts of the myth is This recording was made possible through the assistance that Icarus disappears in much of the same way that of the Canada Music Fund and the Music Section of the Jennifer Taverner, Soprano 1 • Taylor Strande, Soprano 2 people involved in airline tragedies disappear, and the Canada Council for the Arts. Leigh-Anne Martin, Mezzo-soprano 1 • Loralie Kirkpatrick, Mezzo-soprano 2 way the astronauts of the Space Shuttle Columbia Charles Davidson, Tenor • Graham Robinson, Bass disappeared in a blaze of light over Texas. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government Kathleen Rudolph, Flute • Anthony Thompson, Clarinet Daedalus’s cries of “Damn this art” are heartbreaking, of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage Benjamin Bowman, Violin I • Véronique Mathieu, Violin II not so much because Icarus has crashed and died, but (Canada Music Fund) and of Canada’s Private Radio Gregory Campbell, Viola • Paul Widner, Cello • Adam Sherkin, Piano more that he knows that we are doomed to keep building Broadcasters. Ryan Scott, John Rudolph, Percussion things – airplanes, computers, operas – in an endless Sarah Moon, Assistant, Trigger of audio files cycle of trial and error that sometimes leads to disastrous Dedicated to Donna Wong-Juliani and to the memory of Brian Current, Conductor consequences. John Juliani. Like Daedalus, we might curse this sorry state, as does the terrified Scholar, or we can rejoice in the thrill of Brian Current (né en 1972) Carla Huhtanen Airline Icarus • Inventory Much in demand as an interpreter of modern and Airline Icarus porte sur les pensées croisées de Le cri de Dédale, « Maudit soit cet art! », est déchirant, et contemporary music, soprano Carla Huhtanen has sung passagers d’un vol commercial. Cette œuvre explore les ce non pas tant parce qu’Icare s’est écrasé et qu’il est with companies such as Garsington Opera, Mostly thèmes de l’hubris, de la technologie, de l’intimité forcée mort que parce qu’il sait que nous sommes voués à Mozart, at the Barbican, London, and Welsh National entre étrangers, et de ce qui arrive lorsqu’on vole trop continuer à fabriquer des choses – des avions, des Opera, and with orchestras including the BBC Concert près du soleil. Au fil de l’œuvre, l’avion devient de plus en ordinateurs, des opéras – dans un cycle infini d’essais et Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. One of plus lumineux et finit par disparaître. d’erreurs dont les conséquences peuvent être NOW magazine’s Top Ten Theatre Artists of 2008 and En septembre 1983, un avion commercial coréen a désastreuses. 2010 Dora Award nominee, she performs regularly with été abattu au-dessus de la côte est de l’Union soviétique. Comme Dédale, et comme le Savant terrifié, nous Opera Atelier, Tapestry New Opera, and in Les Soviétiques ont dit qu’ils croyaient qu’il s’agissait d’un pouvons maudire ce triste état de choses. Nous pouvons concerts throughout Italy, France, Malta, Britain, avion espion. Plutôt que d’atteindre directement l’avion, le aussi trouver grisant notre pouvoir de créer des choses Germany, and in Canada. missile a frappé son aile, et l’avion « est tombé comme merveilleuses : « Aucune paix n’est aussi grande. Aucune une feuille pendant douze à quinze insoutenables joie n’est aussi pure % », chante le Pilote dans son aria. minutes ». Pendant des années, je n’ai pu m’empêcher C’est ce qu’Icare a dû penser alors qu’il s’envolait dans de penser aux gens qui étaient à bord. Plus tard, alors les airs, juste avant de disparaître. que je rendais visite à Anton Piatigorsky, je lui ai dit que j’étais à la recherche d’idées pour des œuvres théâtrales Tiré des notes prises par Brian Current en 2003 et je lui ai parlé de l’avion de ligne coréen. Anton m’a à la Yaddo colony, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Photo: Tobin Grimshaw raconté qu’il venait d’écrire un poème portant sur l’absurde petite société qu’on tient souvent pour acquise lorsqu’on est à bord de vols commerciaux, et sur le Historique de production Krisztina Szabó troublant mélange entre hubris et technologie : on échange des banalités et on regarde des films, alors que Airline Icarus a été commandé en 2001 par Opera Hungarian-Canadian mezzo-soprano Krisztina Photo: Bo Huang de l’autre côté des hublots se trouve un somptueux Breve Vancouver. Des extraits de l’œuvre et des ateliers Szabó’s has performed with Vancouver Opera, paysage de nuages, ou une mort certaine et glaciale. ont été présentés par Tapestry New Opera, Edmonton Opera, Chicago’s Music of the Baroque, the Plus tard, il m’a proposé la métaphore parfaite pour Soundstreams, le Vox Festival du New York City Opera, Mendelssohn Choir, the Calgary Philharmonic and ce que nous essayions de faire : Icare. Icare, vous vous Fort Worth New Frontiers et Opera America. En 2011, the Queen of Puddings Music Theatre, Toronto. She has en souviendrez, a volé trop près du soleil, si bien que ses Airline Icarus a reçu le prix italien Premio Fedora, dont le also appeared with the Aldeburgh Connection, the Pax ailes de cire ont fondu et qu’il est retombé sur terre dans jury était présidé par Louis Andriessen. La première Christi Chorale, the Esprit Orchestra and the Toronto une lumière flamboyante. Son père, Dédale, est parti à sa scénique, dirigée par le compositeur, a eu lieu à Symphony, with Canadian Opera, and the opera recherche, s’écriant « Icare, où es-tu? » et « Maudit soit Verbania, en Italie, en avril 2011. En novembre 2012, companies of Vancouver, Calgary, Quebec, Washington cet art! ». l’œuvre a été présentée en version concert au Royal Concert and Stadtheater Klagenfurt, and with numerous À mes yeux, l’un des aspects les plus intéressants de Conservatory en collaboration avec Maniac Star. Les orchestras in concert. ce mythe est qu’Icare disparaît un peu de la même manière répétitions de ce concert servent de base au présent que les victimes de tragédies aériennes, et que les enregistrement. La création nord-américaine par Maniac astronautes de la navette spatiale Columbia, qui disparurent Star et Soundstreams, sous la direction de Tim Albery, a dans une lumière flamboyante au-dessus du Texas.
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