The Orphic Moment by Matthew Aucoin takes a freeze-frame look at the moment before Orpheus turns fatefully to look at Eurydice. In Harbison's Symphony No. 5, the Orpheus myth is reflected in vivid poetry of Milosz, Glück, and Rilke, the eponymous hero's lute represented by an electric guitar. With a libretto by Cocteau based on Sophocles, Stravinsky's monumental and chilling opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex is a throbbing musical engine of fate.
Ryan Turner conducts he Orchestra and Chorus of
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The Orphic Moment by Matthew Aucoin takes a freeze-frame look at the moment before Orpheus turns fatefully to look at Eurydice. In Harbison’s Symphony No. 5, the Orpheus myth is reflected in vivid poetry of Milosz, Glück, and Rilke, the eponymous hero’s lute represented by an electric guitar. With a libretto by Cocteau based on Sophocles, Stravinsky’s monumental and chilling opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex is a throbbing musical engine of fate.
Ryan Turner conducts he Orchestra and Chorus of Emmanuel Music with the Harvard Glee Club and Urbanity Dance.
Aucoin: The Orphic Moment
Deborah Rentz-Moore, mezzo-soprano
Heather Braun-Bakken, violin
Jacob Regan, dancer
Harbison: Symphony No. 5
Krista River, mezzo-soprano
David Tinervia, baritone
Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
Oedipus, Jon Jurgens, tenor
Jocasta, Michelle Trainor, soprano
Creon, David Kravitz, baritone
Tiresias, David Cushing, bass
Messenger, David Kravitz, baritone
Shepherd, Matthew Anderson, tenor
Narrator, Chris Lydon
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