To Wake the Dead: Words, Love & Time
Picosa brings its 13th season to an unforgettable, tour-de-force conclusion featuring acclaimed soprano Amanda DeBoer Bartlett, conductor Michael Lewanski, and an expanded chamber ensemble!
The evening opens with the poignant, tender intimacy of Stacy Garrop’s My Dearest Ruth (inspired by Martin Ginsburg’s final letter to Ruth Bader Ginsburg), the rhythmic intrigue of Rolando Gomez’s The Two Clocks, and the fiery, teenage Romanticism of Mahler’s sole surviving chamber work, the Piano Quartet in A minor.
The season culminates in Stephen Albert’s Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece, To Wake the Dead—a kaleidoscopic 30-minute sonic adventure channeling the cyclical genius and wild imagination of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.
Program
Stacy Garrop | My Dearest Ruth – Soprano Version (soprano, clarinet, violin, cello, piano)
Rolando Gomez | The Two Clocks (clarinet, violin, cello, piano) *CCCC Premiere
Gustav Mahler | Piano Quartet in a minor (violin, viola, cello, piano)
Stephen Albert | To Wake the Dead (soprano, flute, cl/bass cl, violin, viola, cello, pianox2)
Artists
Amanda DeBoer Bartlett | soprano
Michael Lewanski | conductor
Jennie Oh Brown | flute
Andrea R. DiOrio | clarinet
Elizabeth Brausa Brathwaite | violin
Russell Rolen | cello
Daniel Schlosberg | piano
Jonathon Kirk | composer-in-residence
If you need ticketing assistance, please contact the Holtschneider Performance Center Box Office by email: musicboxoffice@depaul.edu or by phone at 773.325.5200. The HPC Box Office is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10-3pm.
