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.
Open Gate Theatre presents
Sucktion
a monodrama
music by Anne LeBaron
libretto by Douglas Kearney
special guest:
New Zealand violinist Mark Menzies
performs Anne LeBaron's Fore
Date: Sunday May 5
Time: 7:00 – 8:00 PM
Location: Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church, 301 N.Orange Grove, Pasadena
Tickets: $20 ($10 for students and seniors)
Sucktion, an operatic monodrama composed by Anne LeBaron to a libretto by celebrated American poet Douglas Kearney, follows a woman’s erotic encounter with a vacuum cleaner. A one-night-only invited workshop performance, this special event features an international cast: stage director Alexander Gedeon, acclaimed Amsterdam-based soprano Laura Bohn, music directorMarc Lowenstein, costume designer Lena Sands, percussionist Efraim Schulz-Wackerbarth, vibraphonist James Waterman, laptop player Brody Scott, sound designer Drew Sensue-Weinstein, and producer Elliot Menard.
Please join us for an intense and provocative evening!
Made possible by the generosity of Garth Powell
and the City of Pasadena Arts Division
June 16 (Ross Hall)
Steuart Liebig/Minim OG
and TBA
Sucktion
a monodrama
music by Anne LeBaron
libretto by Douglas Kearney
special guest:
New Zealand violinist Mark Menzies
performs Anne LeBaron's Fore
Date: Sunday May 5
Time: 7:00 – 8:00 PM
Location: Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church, 301 N.Orange Grove, Pasadena
Tickets: $20 ($10 for students and seniors)
Sucktion, an operatic monodrama composed by Anne LeBaron to a libretto by celebrated American poet Douglas Kearney, follows a woman’s erotic encounter with a vacuum cleaner. A one-night-only invited workshop performance, this special event features an international cast: stage director Alexander Gedeon, acclaimed Amsterdam-based soprano Laura Bohn, music director
Please join us for an intense and provocative evening!
Made possible by the generosity of Garth Powell
and the City of Pasadena Arts Division
June 16 (Ross Hall)
Steuart Liebig/Minim OG
and TBA