OGT Sunday Evening Music Series
April 7, 2024 - 7:00 (sound installation starts at 6:45)
featuring;
Cassia Streb with Special Guests
and
Elliot Menard (including songs from”Orpheus”)
The Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church (Ross Hall)
301 N. Orange Grove, Pasadena
Tickets $10 ($5 tickets seniors, students, and series performers)
Cassia Streb with Special Guests performs Lampworkers
Cassia Streb - viola and percussion
Tim Feeney- percussion
Kevin Good, Katie Eikam and Daniel Corral : wine glasses
and
Elliot Menard (including songs from”Orpheus”)
Elliot Menard - soprano
Marly Gonzalez - cello
Emma-rose Bauman - flute
April 7, 2024 - 7:00 (sound installation starts at 6:45)
featuring;
Cassia Streb with Special Guests
and
Elliot Menard (including songs from”Orpheus”)
The Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church (Ross Hall)
301 N. Orange Grove, Pasadena
Tickets $10 ($5 tickets seniors, students, and series performers)
Cassia Streb with Special Guests performs Lampworkers
Cassia Streb - viola and percussion
Tim Feeney- percussion
Kevin Good, Katie Eikam and Daniel Corral : wine glasses
and
Elliot Menard (including songs from”Orpheus”)
Elliot Menard - soprano
Marly Gonzalez - cello
Emma-rose Bauman - flute
Elliot’s in-progress opera, ORPHEUS/OVID, explores dreams of reunion with lost loved ones through the Orpheus myth. In collaboration with Marly Gonzalez (cello) and Emma-rose Bauman (flute), Elliot (voice) presents two of her compositions in addition to an improvisation on the project’s themes.
While ORPHEUS/OVID is inspired by a classical text, the work is rooted in original material, interdisciplinary practices, experimental techniques, and new perspectives. Elliot’s creation process dives into the obscurities of the text in order to reemerge with something unique and personal. In ORPHEUS/OVID, she aims to translate her interpretation of the epic poem into an aural experience, offer a new perspective on loss through an ancient story, and defamiliarize archetypes by bringing the poetry’s subtext to the surface.
While ORPHEUS/OVID is inspired by a classical text, the work is rooted in original material, interdisciplinary practices, experimental techniques, and new perspectives. Elliot’s creation process dives into the obscurities of the text in order to reemerge with something unique and personal. In ORPHEUS/OVID, she aims to translate her interpretation of the epic poem into an aural experience, offer a new perspective on loss through an ancient story, and defamiliarize archetypes by bringing the poetry’s subtext to the surface.