Holiday Concert 2024

Schedule

Wed, 18 Dec, 2024 at 07:30 pm

Location

Hamel Music Center | Madison, WI

Join the Middleton Community Orchestra with guest artists Isabel Celata (soprano), Madison Barrett (mezzo-soprano), and Thomas Kasdorf (piano) for a program including Beethoven's Overture "Leonore" No. 3, Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2, and Yeston's December Songs.
December Songs is a song cycle by musical theatre composer-lyricist Maury Yeston. The work is a "retelling" of Franz Schubert's Winterreise, (a song cycle of art songs), with a cabaret sensibility. The songs in both December Songs and Winterreise are linked as a sequence of reflections by the singer taking a lonely walk in winter, thinking back on his or her lost love.
The piece crosses over the line from classical music to Broadway to cabaret. Where the Schubert masterpiece features words by Wilhelm Müller portraying a jilted young man's wandering the snows of the Vienna woods and ultimately sinking into madness, the Yeston lyrics depict a contemporary young woman wandering a snowy Central Park in New York City and finding recovery and hope on her journey.
December Songs pictures in richly varied melodies and striking yet unforced poetic images a worldly young woman, jilted and adrift in a wintry New York City, reading all she sees for commentary on her broken heart. It has been recorded six times in English, and once each in French, German, and Polish.
$20 general admission. Students are free. Tickets are available at Willy Street Co-op West and at the door. Students can get tickets at the door only on the night of the show. Box office opens at 6:30 p.m. Doors open at 7:00 p.m.
MCO Program
Christopher Ramaekers, conductor
Leonore Overture No. 3 in C Major, Op. 72b (1805)......Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 19 (1787-1789)......Ludwig van Beethoven
Thomas Kasdorf, piano
-intermission-
December Songs (1991)...............Maury Yeston (1945- )
Isabel Celata, soprano
Madison Barrett, mezzo soprano
1. "December Snow"
2. "Where Are You Now"
3. "Please Let's Not Even Say Hello"
4. "When Your Love Is New"
5. "Bookseller In The Rain"
6. "My Grandmother's Love Letters"
7. "I Am Longing"
8. "I Had A Dream About You"
9. "By The River"
10. "What A Relief"

Where is it happening?

Hamel Music Center, 740 University Ave,Madison,WI,United States

Event Location & Nearby Stays:

Host or Publisher Middleton Community Orchestra

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