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- | # Visitations at Bing Concert Hall, April 12, 2013 | ||
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- | [Visitations](https:// | ||
- | 2013-04-12 | ||
- | Bing Concert Hall | ||
- | [Stanford University, 327 Lasuen St, Palo Alto, CA](http:// | ||
- | 8:00 PM, Friday, April 12, 2013 | ||
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- | ## Theotokia | ||
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- | [7:58 PM, seated and ready to go! 8:03 PM, lights down] | ||
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- | 1. Mother Anne, spiritual leader of the Shakers, invites Leon and her congregants to obtain a secret knowledge. | ||
- | 2. The Yeti Mother, an imaginary mother of God, calls to Leon from her cave in the Himalayas, promising to call him home to her. | ||
- | 3. Leon, an institutionalized schizophrenic, | ||
- | 4. Leon’s mother visits and tells the story of her son’s illness, concluding accusatorily, | ||
- | 5. Leon obsessively reiterates his mother’s question, his speech transforming into glossolalia as he invokes the Yeti Mother. | ||
- | 6. The Yeti Mother answers Leon’s distress with a song in celebration of excrement. | ||
- | 7. The Yeti Mother reveals that she is Leon’s true mother, and that she, along with her congregation of yetis, will help Leon transcend his physical limitations. | ||
- | 8. The Yeti Mother and her yeti children transform into Mother Anne and her congregants once again, soothing Leon with the knowledge that he is now in possession of a secret knowledge. In a rare and painful moment of lucidity, however, Leon realizes that he is alone and suffering from his mental illness. | ||
- | [8:40 PM work ends] | ||
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- | ### ♀♂ the Vocalists ♂♀ | ||
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- | * [Heather Buck](http:// | ||
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- | . | ||
- | **♂ [New York Polyphony](http:// | ||
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- | * Christopher Dylan Herbert as _congregant_: | ||
- | * Craig Phillips as _congregant_: | ||
- | * Geoffrey Williams as _Leon_: countertenor vox; | ||
- | * Steven Caldicott Wilson as _congregant_: | ||
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- | ## The War Reporter | ||
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- | [9:04 PM performers enter] | ||
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- | 1. Mogadishu | ||
- | 2. Columbia University | ||
- | 3. Johannesburg | ||
- | 4. Mosul | ||
- | 5. Phoenix | ||
- | [9:56 PM work ends] | ||
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- | ### ♀♂ the Vocalists ♂♀ | ||
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- | * [Heather Buck](http:// | ||
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- | . | ||
- | **♂ [New York Polyphony](http:// | ||
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- | * Christopher Dylan Herbert as _Paul Watson_: baritone vox; | ||
- | * Craig Phillips as _Cleveland_: | ||
- | * Geoffrey Williams as one of _Paul' | ||
- | * Steven Caldicott Wilson as _Cleveland' | ||
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- | ## ♀♂ the Performers ♂♀ | ||
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- | **♀♂ [St. Lawrence String Quartet](http:// | ||
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- | * Christopher Costanza: cello; | ||
- | * Geoff Nutall: violin; | ||
- | * Lesley Robertson: viola; | ||
- | * Scott St. John: violin; | ||
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- | . | ||
- | **♀♂ and supporting performers ♂♀** | ||
- | * [Pascal Archer](http:// | ||
- | * [Pedja Muzijevic](http:// | ||
- | * Tara Helen O’Connor: flute; | ||
- | * Steven Schick: percussion | ||
- | * Stephen Tramontozzi: | ||
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- | . | ||
- | **♀♂ with invaluable contributions from ♂♀** | ||
- | * [Jonathan Berger](https:// | ||
- | * [Rinde Eckert](http:// | ||
- | * [Dan O’Brien](http:// | ||
- | * Christopher Rountree: conductor. | ||
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- | ## ☺ Notes ☺ | ||
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- | Tonight we enjoyed our best seats of the season thus far -- smack dab in the middle of row H, a great vantage point to observe the theatrics of tonights two works. And the sound tonight was excellent, except for one very important issue, which is that the singing was not especially intelligible. I can't say whether this is a matter of enunciation on the part of the singers, acoustic issues with the hall, or a simply failure of hearing on our part, but no matter the cause, it was quite annoying! As both Ting and Tom mentioned during the intermission, | ||
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- | For my part, I enjoyed both works, and found the music to be consistently interesting, | ||
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- | [Promo article](https:// | ||
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- | [Jesse Hamlin' | ||
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- | [Rebecca Wallace' | ||
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