VIRTUAL CONCERT | Women's Suffrage: Past + Present | RPO 19/20 Season Concert Rebroadcast + Live Chat
*The event has already taken place on this date: Mon, 06/29/2020
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Women’s Suffrage: Past & Present
June 29 | 8PM | Classical 91.5 or www.Classical915.org
Ward Stare, conductor
Mark Mobley, playwright
Alexa Scott-Flaherty, director
- MENDELSSOHN-HENSEL: Overture in C major
- GEMMA PEACOCKE: All on Fire
- PERRY Short Piece for Orchestra
- MARK MOBLEY True and Devoted***
Join Music Director Ward Stare for the world premiere of a new work by renowned composer, Gemma Peacocke. Plus, playwright Mark Mobley is creating a new theatrical work setting the stories of strong Rochester women, past and present, to music.
Cast
Mayor Lovely Warren…..Shirlyn Washington
Elaine Spaull…..Nancy Berg
Catherine Cerulli…..Jodi Beckwith
Tamara Leigh…..E.B. Okung
Lola DeAscentiis…..Tali Beckwith-Cohen
Interviewer……Rick Staropoli
*** A documentary-style play consisting of re-enacted interviews with five Rochesterian women (Mayor Lovely Warren, Elaine Spaull, Catherine Ceruli, Tamara Leigh, and Lola DeAscentiis) as a means of investigating the legacy of Susan B Anthony and the suffrage movement, accompanied by the following orchestral selections:
JOAN TOWER Sixth Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman
ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK Church Street Serenade
SCHUBERT Act III Entr’acte (Andantino) from Rosamunde
ARVO PÄRT Fratres
SMITH Allegretto amoravole from Symphony in C minor
COPLAND Corral Nocturne from Rodeo
DVORÁK Romanze from Czech Suite in D major, op. 39
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