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Well, Thursday would have been our
Carnegie Hall World Premiere. Best laid plans...! As we wait for our
*New and Improved* Carnegie Hall date at a later, safer time, for now
the music goes on, even in quarantine! And even from home, this has
been for me an exciting day of premiere week as guest speaker for
Chamber Music America, and interviews with WQXR and on Facebook Live for
Dream Leapers with Harriette Cole!
I
hope you will join us on Thursday May 21st at 6pm when we will present
another "Music Kitchen Bridging the Distance" ZoomCast including the
virtual public premiere of our 15th and final Forgotten Voices
song, "Hooking In" by Kamala Sankaram! With a text describing fishing,
and summer fast approaching, the song resonates as both literal and
poetic. While there are many "fish" in our lives that seem to be
eluding us now, with our attempts hitting many snags along the way, we
will eventually "hook in" and catch what we desire! Of course we proudly
continue the tradition of offering priority access to Music Kitchen
shelter clients, but on Thursday, we are delighted to offer to the
public the performance and a Q&A with the artists! Please see below
for ZoomCast Details (the ZoomCast limit is 300 and is accessible on a
first come first served basis).
As always, I hope you will include Music Kitchen and the Forgotten Voices project in your giving by clicking here:
Thank you for all you do.
Warmest Regards,
Kelly
Music Kitchen New York City - Photos by Jaime Yaela
Forgotten Voices World Premiere
Presented in Association with Carnegie Hall
Zankel Hall
~Coming Soon ~
Chosen Text
"The onchor reminds me of a day of fishing all the things it
entails; from moving from one fishing hole to another, to getting to
that special spot, catching a small one, hooking in, and the drama of
loosing a potential big one, seeing the big one, getting snagged on a
log. Hooking into the big one again, and eating it for dinner."
-Shelter client
Bio
Praised as “strikingly original” (NY Times), and a “new voice from
whom we will surely be hearing more” (LA Times), Kamala Sankaram has
received commissions from Washington National Opera, Houston Grand
Opera, Beth Morrison Projects, the PROTOTYPE Festival, Opera on Tap,
Opera Memphis, and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, among others. She is the
recipient of a Jonathan Larson Award from the American Theater Wing, and
has received grants from Opera America, the National Endowment for the
Arts, the Kevin Spacey Foundation, and the MAP Fund. Residencies and
fellowships include the MacDowell Colony, the Watermill Center, the
Civilians, HERE Arts Center, CAP21, Con Edison/Exploring the Metropolis,
the Hermitage, and American Lyric Theater. As a resident artist at HERE
Arts Center, Kamala created MIRANDA, which was the winner of the New
York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Production of a Musical.
THUMBPRINT, her second opera (written in collaboration with librettist
Susan Yankowitz), premiered in the 2014 PROTOTYPE Festival, and was
featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition, Agence French Presse, and over 25
media outlets around the world. THUMBPRINT has since received
productions at LA Opera and Opera Ithaca. She is currently working with
Opera on Tap and librettist Jerre Dye on THE PARKSVILLE MURDERS, the
first opera written for virtual reality. Episode 1 is now available on
SamsungVR.
Featured Artists
Sankaram:
Adrienne Danrich, soprano
Kelly Hall-Tompkins, violin
Ling Ling Huang, violin
Andrew Gonzalez, viola
Alexis Gerlach, cello
Dvorak Bass Quintet:
Kelly Hall-Tompkins, violin
Hector Falcon, violin
Andrew Gonzalez, viola
Alexis Gerlach, cello
John-Paul Norpoth, double bass
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