Saturday, February 16, 2008

Horsewomen of the Apocalypse: The White Horse



GOAT HALL PRODUCTIONS: San Francisco Cabaret Opera presents

Horsewomen of the Apocalypse

St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church
500 De Haro Street, @ Mariposa Street (Potrero Hill)
San Francisco, CA

The White Horse
8pm, Saturday, February 16, 2008
Inspirational, heroic, and iconic songs, reflecting the woman in us all!

Featuring:

Flying Out the Mouth
Music by Mark Alburger
From the monodrama by Harriet March Page
Contemporary Songs of Survival
With Native American Creation Myths

Performed by Harriet March Page, Sarah Hutchison, and Kat Cornelius

"We have stories as old as the great seas
breaking through the chest
flying out the mouth
noisy tongues that once were silenced
all the oceans we contain coming to light"

Mice Suite No. 2 and White Horse Suite
Music by Mark Alburger
After John Steinbeck, Mel Clay,
Tennessee Williams, and Harriet March Page
Visions of Curley's Wife, June Miller, Esmeralda, and Brunnhilde
Performed by Suzanna Mizell

Push
Composed Cynthia Weyuker
The Heroics of Healing
Performed by Cynthia Weyuker musical saw and degital delay/loop

Songs and Arias Reflecting the White Horse Through the Centuries

Single Tickets: $15 (students/seniors) $20 (general)
Cabaret Tables: $25 / person

For more information/tickets
Call: (415) 289-6877 or
Email: hartmpage@aol.com
www.goathall.org

Upcoming Programs in the Series:

The Red Horse
8pm, Saturday, April 19, 2008
War and all related effects...
political, economic, domestic

The Black Horse
8pm, Friday, May 9, 2008
Famine, plague or any disaster...
including traffic and the weather

Details:


Op. 103 FLYING OUT THE MOUTH
(after Harriet March Page)
(December 11, 2001)
Opera for Voice(s) and Instrument(s)
I. Hide and Seek
II. After the Movie
III. Yonder in the North
IV. When I Was Three
V. All the Dark Birds
VI. Prayer
VII. Flying Out the Mouth
VIII. LSD
IX. Here I Am
X. Mice Skins
XI. Wolf Song
XII. New Jerusalem School
XIII. Ringaround
XIV. The Woman From the Sky
XV. Wind Song I
XVI. Cross This Bridge
XVIIa. Wind Song II
XVIIb. Then We Find Out
XVIII. Wind Song III
XIX. Yoda

Recording:
MIDI, performed live on 2/16/08 by
Harriet March Page, Sarah Hutchison,
Kat Cornelius, and Mark Alburger

FLYING OUT THE MOUTH
(New Music, 2008)
I. Hide and Seek







II. After the Movie







III. Yonder in the North







IV. When I Was Three







V. All the Dark Birds







VI. Prayer







VII. Flying Out the Mouth







VIII. LSD







IX. Here I Am







X. Mice Skins







XI. Wolf Song







XII. New Jerusalem School







XIII. Ringaround







XIV. The Woman From the Sky







XV. Wind Song I







XVI. Cross This Bridge







XVIIa. Wind Song II







XVIIb. Then We Find Out







XVIII. Wind Song III







XIX. Yoda










Op. 53 MICE SUITE NO. 2
(after John Steinbeck)
(December 30, 1996)
Seven Vocables for Soprano and Instrument(s)
I. Breathsong
II. Tartsong I
III. Tartsong II
IV. Dancesong
V. Deathsong I
VI. Deathsong II
VII. Hartsong

Recording:
MIDI, performed live on 2/16/08 by
Suzanna Mizell and Mark Alburger

MICE SUITE NO. 2
(New Music, 2008)
I. Breathsong







II. Tartsong I







III. Tartsong II







IV. Dancesong







V. Deathsong I







VI. Deathsong II







VII. Hartsong









Op. 154 WHITE HORSE SUITE
(after Mel Clay, Tennessee Williams, and
Harriet March Page)
(February 10, 2008)
Three Visions for 2 Voices and Instrument(s)
I. June
II. Esmeralda
III. Brunnhilde

Recording:
MIDI, I KILL ME MUSIC,
and NEW MUSIC,
performed live on 2/16/08 by
Suzanna Mizell and Mark Alburger

WHITE HORSE SUITE
(I Kill Me Music, 2005;
New Music, 2007-2008)
I. June







II. Esmeralda







III. Brunnhilde







Dress Rehearsal and Production Shots:



The White Horse,



on a dark San Francisco night (what other kinds of night are there?)



at St. Gregory of Nyssa



with Harriet doing the curtain speech (even though, as with most places in which we've performed, there's no curtain -- but what dancing-saints mural in this case? ),


Suzanna doing Mice Suite No. 2 (first time in full [albeit faux] orchestration) and the syncretist White Horse Suite (nothing more than three excerpts respectively from Henry Miller in Brooklyn; Camino Real; and Cats, Dogs, and Divas),



and Harriet, Sarah, and Kat in the premiere of Flying Out the Mouth.



Also on the program, Cynthia Weyuker's voice-and-musical saw magic,



and Marilyn Pratt's high-flying Mozart.