OOT veteran Matthew Curran Is a Busy Man this Spring!

Matt will be performing the bass-baritone solo role in Beethoven's 9th with the Jacksonville Symphony on May 10-12

BUT THEN!....get ready for it...

In late June he'll be premiering the role of porn star Helmut Langenschlange in The Enchanted Organ: A Porn Opera

"The Enchanted Organ” is a burlesque opera that celebrates sexuality and satirizes the porn industry—all while parodying four hundred years of operatic tradition. Join composer/librettist team Gordon Beeferman and Charlotte Jackson, with veteran director Beth Greenberg, on a journey to the Magical Kingdom of Porn…

Premiere work-in-progress performances

Friday/Saturday, June 22-23, 2012, 9:30 pm
Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street, New York City

Tickets: $15

OOTers Jeanai La Vita and Erika Hennings Perform in a Double Bill of Gertrude Stein!

From our OOTer Jeanai:
Please join us for an evening of musical fun with a double-bill of delightful short works by Gertrude Stein! TONIGHT at Symphony Space! BUY TICKETS!

Gertrude wrote CAPITAL CAPITALS in 1923, poking fun at four "VIP" gentlemen promoting their business ventures in the South of France. Composer Virgil Thomson, who met Gertrude in Paris, composed the witty score in 1927, with music that evokes fanfares and playground ditties, as well as amusing operatic tremolos. The Encompass singers are amazing.

Topping off the evening is the musical tour de force, THREE SISTERS WHO ARE NOT SISTERS, by composer Ned Rorem and Gertrude Stein. This imaginative spoof of parlour games and murder mysteries is scored for piano and five extraordinary singers!

Declaring the Encompass Stein evening "audaciously entertaining," Anthony Tommasini of The New York Times, hailed Encompass for its "charming production...and imaginative stagings" of these works.

So, please join us on Friday, April 27th at 7:00 pm for the first show and at 9:30 pm for the second show!

And, when the curtain rolls down, stroll over to the lively Cafe at Symphony Space. It's a great place to enjoy a nightcap with friends!

For more info, visit www.jeanai.com

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Delea Shand, presents music by Nils Vigeland and Charles Ives

Saturday, Jan 7, 2012

8:00 pm

Central Presbyterian Church

Delea Shand, proud OOT-er and New Brew-er, is honoured to be premiering a new work by Nils Vigeland, 'There Was a Child Went Forth,' a setting Whitman's epic poem, about a child's experience of the world. The program also includes 'Mother Leads Me,' an arrangement of Shaker Melodies; along with 'Three Songs,' with texts by Keats, Yeats and Octavio Paz. Pianist Anne Rainwater will play some solo works. We'll be pairing these intricate works with several songs by the legendary American composer, Charles Ives. 

FREE!

The Play of Daniel & Medieval Christmas Music

The Church of the Transfiguration (“The Little Church Around the Corner”), 1 East 29th Street (between Fifth and Madison) will perform The Play of Daniel(Ludus Danielis) on Friday, December 16, 2011 at 7:30 pm. This thirteenth-century liturgical drama about the Biblical prophet’s miraculous survival of a lion’s den is here performed in a fully staged and costumed production, sung entirely in Latin and accompanied by Medieval instruments, with an English narration by W. H. Auden. Special Christmas music features the Transfiguration Boys Choir.

 

Starring: Kannan Vasudevan as Daniel. 

With: Bernadette Fiorella (The Queen), Bill Gross (King Darius), Martin Gonzalez (King Belshazzar), Zander Ebin (The Prince), Reid Delahunt (Habakkuk), Ethan Fran (The Envious Counselor), and Grace Goldstein (The Angel). Featuring Charles Samuel Brown as the Narrator.

Music director: Claudia Dumschat. Stage Directors: Richard Olson and Brett Goldstein. Costumes by Terri Bush. This is an Arnold Schwartz Memorial Concert.

Tickets are $25 and $15 (seniors and students). Reservations:             (212) 684-4174      .

Subways: 1, N/R, or 6 to 28 Street