VOX: Showcasing American Composers 2006
A program of New York City Opera
Presented by the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York  
University

566 LaGuardia Place (Washington Square Park South)
May 6-7, 2006
FREE

Directions to Skirball Center
The Skirball Center is located at 566 LaGuardia Place at Washington  
Square Park South, within a few blocks of most subway lines,  
including West 4th St. (A, C, E, F, V, and S), 8th Street (N, R, W),  
Astor Place (6) and Christopher Street (1).

    
VOX 2006: Showcasing American Composers is the only program of its  
kind in the country, giving composers the opportunity to hear new  
works and works-in-progress with full orchestra and professional  
soloists. New York City Opera's exciting program offers audiences a  
sneak peek at the opera of tomorrow, and composers get a test  
audience for their new musical ideas. Composers such as Mark Adamo,  
Charles Wuorinen, Richard Danielpour, and Michael John LaChiusa had  
pieces first featured in VOX that have gone on to define an American  
musical voice.

Next weekend, join Music Director George Manahan, Composer-in- 
Residence Mark Adamo, soprano Lauren Flanigan and many others, as  
City Opera brings VOX downtown to New York University's Skirball  
Center, an intimate new theater devoted to developing young audiences  
for live performances. The City Opera Orchestra will play excerpts  
from twelve innovative new works from both established and emerging  
composers.

Talk-backs with the composers and other exciting events will make up  
a festival that is free and open to the public.

Learn more about this year's festival!

SCHEDULE

MAY 6

12:00-1:30pm
Panel Discussion: Transforming Literature into Opera
Moderator: Mark Adamo
Participants: Russell Banks, Frank Corsaro, Kate Gale, Herschel  
Garfein, Christopher Hawes, Philip Littell

2:00-3:00pm
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Herschel Garfein
Harmony, Robert Carl/Russell Banks

3:15-4:15pm
Letter to East 11th Street, Martin Hennessy/Mark Campbell
Blake, H. Leslie Adams/Daniel Mayers

4:35-5:30pm
Red Azalea, William Kraft/Christopher Hawes
Frau Margot, Thomas Pasatieri/Frank Corsaro

8:00-10:00pm
VOX On the Edge
Readings of new works by Center for Contemporary Opera, Music Theater  
Group, Encompass New Opera Theatre, and American Opera Projects

MAY 7

12:00-1:30pm
Panel Discussion: Opera Electronica
Moderator: Tod Machover
Participants: Mason Bates, Justine F. Chen, Anne LeBaron, Stephen  
Andrew Taylor

2:00-3:00pm
Leaving Santa Monica, Jenny O. Johnson
California Fictions, Mason Bates

3:15-4:15pm
The Maiden Tower, Justine F. Chen
Crescent City, Anne LeBaron/Philip Littell

4:35-5:30pm
Paradises Lost, Stephen Andrew Taylor/Kate Gale
Messer Marco Polo, Max Stern


Click here for a description of the operas.

Admission to all events is free. Seating is on a first-come, first- 
served basis.



Photo of composers Jenny O. Johnson, Herschel Garfein, and Justine F.  
Chen by Fadi Kheir.



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