Second rehearsal of Fresh Voices XVI: Memories and Desires (8:15pm, Fridays / Saturdays, August 12-13, 26-27, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA), and first for Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel, Op. 232, with our talented ensemble including
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
Feona Lee Jones - ALMA PIANIST DOUBLE
Josef Labor (Austrian Composer / Alma's 1st Teacher)
Ossip Gabrilowitsch (Russian-American Pianist / Alma's 6th Lover)
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)
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
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)
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Thereafter,
errands
in
Benicia,
to
the
local
Tahoe Joe's
for happy hour,
then home, on the 86th day of summer, high 99 (94 in Pleasant Hill, 33 days 80+, 14 days 90-or-beyond),
to continue the adventure of staging (IX-X)
and
instrumental parts (V) for AMSMGW,
partially over videos with
Megan and Harriet,
with an evening run to
UC Davis Library re The Opus Project presetns Opus 42: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Musicverse (8pm, Saturday, June 25, Park-Presidio United Methodist Church, San Francisco, CA)...
