Second
Lesher Center for the Arts rehearsal of Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera Fresh Voices XVI: Memories and Desires (8:15pm, Fridays-Saturdays, August 12-13, 26-27), featuring Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel, Op. 232, including
1879 - ANNA SOFIE BERGEN (Alma's Mother)
XV. 1893 - ALMA / SOPHIE / GRETE (Photograph III / Alma's Family Portrait)
XXVIII. 1906 - ALMA / MARIA / ANNA / GUSTAV (In the Home)
XXXV. 1913 - ALMA MAHLER / OSKAR KOKOSCHKA
(Kokoschka's Paintings / Bride of the Wind)
XXXVIII. 1916 - MANON GROPIUS (Alma's 3rd Daughter)
XL. 1918 - HULDA RESERL / HERMINE MOOS / MARTIN WERFEL
(Kokoschka's Design / Alma's Son)
XLI. 1919 -
THE PUPPET (Alma's Image)
LVI. 1934 - ELIAS CANETTI / MAID (Manon's Polio)
LVII. - 1935 MANON GROPIUS / ALBAN BERG (Manon / Berg's Deaths)
Before this,
take back the van
and
drive down.
After, compose The Great Widow (Alma, Part II), Op. 255: LXIX. 1947 - Thomas Mann / Arnold Schoenberg (Schoenberg's Ire), on the 150th day of summer, high again 95 (93 days 80+ / 57 90-or-beyond) -- 88 Walnut Creek...