Dress rehearsal for Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera's
Fresh Voices XVI: Memories and Desires (8:15pm, Fridays-Saturdays, August 12-13, 26-27,
Lesher Center for the Arts,
Walnut Creek, CA) --
Jostein Stahlheim / John Bilotta
Rosetta's Stone
and
Mark Alburger's Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel, Op. 232, including
XVII. 1895 - MAX BURCKHARD / OTTO MAHLER (Alma's 1st Lover / Otto Mahler's Suicide)
XIX. 1897 - GUSTAV KLIMT (Alma's 2nd Lover)
XXI. 1899 - MARIA MOLL (Photograph IV / Alma's 2nd Half Sister)
XXII. 1900 - ALEXANDER VON ZEMLINSKY (Alma's 2nd Teacher / 3rd Lover)
XXIV. 1902 - RICHARD STRAUSS / MARIA ANNA "PUTZI"
(Mahler's Friend / Alma's 1st Daughter)
XXXIV. 1912 - PAUL KAMMERER / OSKAR KOKOSCHKA (Alma's Lovers)
XXXV. 1913 - ALMA MAHLER / OSKAR KOKOSCHKA
(Kokoschka's Paintings / Bride of the Wind)
XXXVIII. 1916 - MANON GROPIUS (Alma's 3rd Daughter)
XXXIX. 1917 - FRANZ WERFEL (Alma's 2nd Affair)
XL. 1918 - HULDA RESERL / HERMINE MOOS / MARTIN WERFEL
(Kokoschka's Design / Alma's Son)
XLI. 1919 - THE PUPPET (Alma's Image)
XLII. 1920 - GROPIUS / PROSTITUTE / FESTIVAL (Alma's Divorce)
XLVIII. 1926 - ALBRECHT JOSEPH / OSKAR KOKOSCHKA / PAUL KAMMERER
(Alma's Inspiration)
L. 1928 - ALBAN BERG / OSKAR KOKOSCHKA (Kokoschka's Letters)
LIII. 1931 - GEORGE BERNARD SHAW / PAUL VON ZSOLNAY (Anna's 3rd Separation)
LIV. 1932 - THEO JOHANNES HOLLNSTEINER (Alma's 3rd Affair)
LVI. 1934 - ELIAS CANETTI / MAID (Manon's Polio)
LX. 1938 - ANSCHLUSS (Alma's Departure)
-- the day
beginning with
the first
Fall 2016 Diablo Valley College Music Faculty Meeting and
score study at Magoo's,
and ending via composition re The Great Widow (Alma, Part II): LXXI. 1949 - Strauss / Pfitzner / Schoenberg / Mann / Stravinsky / Gropius / Kokoschka / Toch / Milhaud / Zuckmayer / Schuschnigg / Krenek / Britten -- on the 152nd day of summer, high back up 2 to 95 (an AABA of 95-95-93-95 past 4 days -- 95 days 80+ / 59 90-or-better) -- 90 Pleasant Hill, 88 Walnut Creek...
