Spoon River Anthology
(2005) 40 min.
soprano, tenor, piano
Text by Edgar Lee Masters
Premiere
Premiered February 2005
Pomona College Theater
Claremont, California
Performers
Original Cast:
Thomas Leabhart, director
Pieter van Zyl, music director, pianist
Ben Acland (PO'07), Camille Brown (SC'06), Gaylene Elizabeth Gibbs (SC'08), Mark Harley (PO'05), Julia Butler (PI'06), Dorothy Drury(PI'06), Tyrus Emory (PI'08), Hudson (PI'08), Christina Hurtado (PO'06), Anna Penniman (PO'05), Valerie Rigsbee (SC'07), Jack Rosenfield (PO'05), Zachary Tewalthomas (PO'05)
Audio
Overture: excerpts from Fiddler Jones, Rebecca Wasson, Petit the Poet, Julian Scott, Hare Drummer, Jeremy Carlisle
Movements
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”)
Reviews
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.
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—Don Maslowski,
Long Beach Press-Telegram
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