LUCY SHELTON presents a program featuring Schoenberg's PIERROT LUNAIRE and related repertoire at 7:30 pm in Greenfield Hall of the Manhattan School of Music on October 22nd. Joined by performers who are either alumni or current students of the MSM Contemporary Performance Program where she has been teaching since 2007
The first half will include various moon-centric works:
-Ana Sokolovic "Looking at the Moon - For Lucy" (2024) (with viola/cello)
-Shulamit Ran "Moon Songs" excerpts (2011) (with flute/cello/piano)
as well as five pieces commissioned by the Schoenberg Institute (to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Pierrot lunaire using texts not chosen by Schoenberg):
-Karl Kohn "Pantomime" (1986) (full ensemble)
-John Harbison "Im Spiegel" (1987) (violin/piano)
-Miriam Gideon "Böhmischer Krystall" (1988) (full ensemble)
-Stephen Mosko "Schwere Loos" (1988) (piccolo/bass clarinet/violin)
-Ursula Mamlok "Die Laterne" (1988) (full ensemble)
The second half will be a performance of "Pierrot lunaire" (1912) with an ensemble of CPP alumni conducted by Jeremy Gill.