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for SATB
Text by Edgar Lee Masters
| "Flaherty's music is hauntingly beautiful in its simplicity and understatement and van Zyl plays it to affecting perfection - a perfect fit for the wide and varied characters from Illinois' past that parade before us." [Pomona College Theater, Pieter van Zyl, musical director] |
– Don Maslowski, Long Beach Press-Telegram |
premiered February 2005
Pomona College Theater
Claremont, California
Original Cast:
Thomas Leabhart, director
Pieter van Zyl, music director, pianist
Ben Acland (PO'07) |
Elizabeth Gibbs (SC"08) Mark Harley (PO"05) Julia Hudson (PI'08) Christina Hurtado (PO'06) |
Anna Penniman (PO'05) Valerie Rigsbee (SC'07) Jack Rosenfield (PO'05) Zachary Tewalthomas (PO'05) |
Overture: excerpts from Fiddler Jones, Rebecca Wasson, Petit the Poet, Julian Scott, Hare Drummer, Jeremy Carlisle
| Overture | piano | 3’23” |
| The Hill | soprano, ST, piano | 5’03” |
| Hare Drummer | soprano, tenor, piano | 1’46” |
| Johnnie Sayre | tenor, piano | 1’47” |
| Scene change to Nellie Clark | piano | 1’00” |
| Nellie Clark | soprano, SS, piano | 2’24” |
| Petit the Poet | tenor, TT , piano | 2’16” |
| Ernest Hyde | unison chorus | 2’25” |
| Many Soldiers | piano | 2’00” |
| Mabel Osborne | soprano, piano | 2’06” |
| Rebecca Wasson | soprano, piano | 4’20” |
| Julian Scott | tenor, bass, piano | 1’30” |
| Dippold the Optician | SATB, piano | 2’20” |
| Jeremy Carlisle | SATB, piano | 3”00 |
| Fiddler Jones | baritone, piano | 3’18” |