June 12 - Going a Bit Crazy, in a Good Way


Second rehearsal of Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel, Op. 232, as part of Fresh Voices XVI: Memories and Desires (8:15pm, Fridays / Saturdays, August 12-13, 26-27, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA), beginning where we had left off previously with XL. 1918  - HERMINE MOOS / HULDA RESERL / MARTIN CARL JOHANNES WERFEL, and marvelous now to have our


complete cast including:



Kassidy Grace Mayernik - ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER (Austian Composer / Socialite)                        Hans Pfitzner (German Composer / Alma's 4th Lover)
        Anna Justine "Gucki" Mahler (Austrian Sculptor / Alma's 2nd Daughter)
        The Alma Doll (Kokoschka's Design / Moos's Manufacture)
        Darius Milhaud (French Composer / Alma's 2nd Soiree Attendee)
        Hanna Fuchs-Robettin (Werfel's Sister / Berg's Mistress)
        Brunner Arbeitzeitung (Anti-Alma Newpaper Reporter) II

Larissa Lorenz - ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER MAHLER
        Julius Viktor Berger (Austrian Artist / Alma's Mother's 1st Lover)
        Manon Gropius (Alma's 3rd Daughter)
        Hulda Reserl (Chambermaid / Kokoschka's Mistress)
        Rupert Koller (Anna Mahler's 1st Husband)
        Anton Webern (Composer / Schoenberg's 1st Student / Alma's 4th Editor)
        G.K. Noble (Kammerer's Critic)
        Franz von Papen (German Officlal / Alma's 2nd Party Attendee)
        Egon Friedell (Austrian Philosopher / Cabaret Performer)

Christa Durand - ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER MAHLER GROPIUS
        Carl Moll (Artist / Alma's Mother's 2nd Lover / Alma's Stepfather)
        Manon Auguste Pauline Scharnweber Gropius (Gropius's Mother)
        Marie Theienemann Hauptmann (Hauptman's Wife)
        Madame M (Mahler's Lover)
        Igor Stravinsky (Russian Composer / Mahler's 1st Critic)
        Claude Debussy (French Composer / Mahler's 2nd Critic)
        Franz Schreker (German Composer / Alma's 2nd Suitor)
        Kokoschka Doll-Party Police Officer I
        Maid (To Manon, in Alma's Employ)
        Brunner Arbeitzeitung (Anti-Alma Newpaper Reporter) III
        Carl Zuckmayer (German Writer / Alma's 1st Party Attendee)

Jill Wagoner - ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER MAHLER GROPIUS WERFEL
        Anna Sophie Bergen Schindler (Alma's Mother)
        Otto Mahler (Austrian Composer / Mahler's Younger Brother)
        Pauline Strauss (Richard Strauss's Wife)
        Paul Dukas (French Composer / Mahler's 3rd Critic)
        Martin Carl Johannes Werfel (Alma's Son)
        Kokoschka Doll-Party Attendee I
        Gropius's Prostitute Police Officer I
        Maurice Ravel (French Composer / Alma's 1st Soire Attendee)
        Dmitri Shostakovich (Russian Composer / Alma's 5th Editor)   

Feona Lee Jones - ALMA PIANIST DOUBLE
        Josef Labor (Austrian Composer / Alma's 1st Teacher)
        Ossip Gabrilowitsch (Russian-American Pianist / Alma's 6th Lover)

Mark Alburger - GUSTAV MAHLER  (Austrian Composer / Alma's 1st Husband)
        Hermine Moos (German Avante-Garde Puppet Maker  / Artist)
        Alban Berg (Composer / Schoenberg's 2nd Student / Alma's 3rd Editor)
        Adolf Hitler (German Nazi-Party Leader)
        Nazi II (Storm-Trooper / Negotiator)


Jamie Samantha Lee - WALTER GROPIUS (German Architect / Alma's 2nd Husband)
        Crown Prince Rudolf (Alma's Father's Employer)
        Oma Bergen (Alma's Grandmother)   
        Geza Zichy (Hungarian One-Armed Pianist-Composer/ Mahler's Rival)
        Max Burckhard (Austrian Theatre Director / Alma's 1st Lover)   
        Arnold Schoenberg (Austrian Composer / Alma's 2nd Editor)
        Bruno Walter (German Conductor / Mahler's 1st Colleague)
        Richard Strauss (German Composer / Mahler's 2nd Colleage)
        Felix Muhr (Artist / Alma's 2nd Admirer)
        Jean Sibelius (Finnish Composer / Mahler's 3rd Colleage)
        August Rodin (French Sculptor / Mahler's Artistic Admirer)
        Arturo Toscanini (Italian Conductor / Mahler's American Rival)
        Paul Kammerer (Austrian Biologist / Alma's 7th Lover)
        Kokoschka Doll-Party Attendee II
        Paul Zsolnay (Austrian Publisher / Anna's 3rd Husband)
        Johannes Hollnsteiner (Austrian Theologian / Alma's 9th Lover)
        Heinrich Bruning (Chancellor of Weimar Germany)
        Nazi I

Jacqueline Goldorin - OSKAR KOKOSCHKA (Austrian Artist / Alma's 8th Lover)
        Gustav Klimt (Austrian Artist / Alma's 2nd Lover)
        Margarethe Julie Schindler (Alma's 1st Half-Sister)
        Maria Anna "Putzi" Mahler (Alma's 1st Daughter)
        Sigmund Freud (Austrian Neurologist / Mahler's Psychoanalyst)   
        Gropius's Prostitute
        Francis Poulenc (French Composer / Alma's 3rd Soiree Attendee)
        Paul Zsolnay (Austro-Hungarian Publisher / Anna's 3rd Husband)
        Elias Canetti (Bulgarian-German Writer / Alma's 2nd Critic)
        Brunner Arbeitzeitung (Anti-Alma Newpaper Reporter) I

Harriet March Page - FRANZ WERFEL (Austrian Writer / Alma's 3rd Husband)
        Emil Jakob Schindler (Austrian Artist / Alma's Father)
        Alexander von Zemlinsky (Composer / Alma's 2nd Teacher / 3rd Lover)
        Gerhart Hauptmann (German Writer / Alma's 1st Admirer)
        Carl Goldmark (Austro-Hungarian Composer / Mahler's 3rd Colleage)
        Gustave Charpentier (French Composer / Alma's 5th Lover)
        Enrico Caruso (Italian Tenor / Mahler's 3rd Associate)
        Joseph Fraenkel (Austro-American Neurologist / Alma's 1st Suitor)
        Siegfried Ochs (German Composer / Alma's 3rd Suitor)
        Kokoschka Doll-Party Police Officer II
        Gropius's Prostitute Police Officer II
        Ernst Krenek (Composer / Anna's 2nd Husband / Alma's 1st Critic / 1st Editor)
        Albrecht Joseph (German-American Theatre / Film Director)
        Brunner Arbeitzeitung (Anti-Alma Newpaper Reporter) IV
        Anna Sophie Bergen Schindler Moll

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to


do more staging


(XXIII-XXIV)


and


instrumental parts (XII) for AMSMGW,


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