Carrolling: The Lewis Carroll Project Composition and Music Direction by Bruce Lazarus
About This Show
Featuring:
Jennifer Winn
Lena Gilbert
Jason Koth
Bruce Lazarus
A cabaret/theater piece for singers and piano celebrating Lewis Carroll’s wit, loopy logic, engagement with mathematics, and love of the world of children. Using poems from the ever-loved Alice books, this night also weaves together songs based on poems from less familiar works such as Sylvia and Bruno, Rhyme and Reason, Tangled Tales, and The Game of Logic.
The menu: The 15 songs are exuberant and occasionally introspective in the slightly asymmetrical phrasing and mildly spicy harmony of the contemporary art-song. A few of the songs – such as “Tweedledum and Tweedledee” – are complete dramatic scenes in themselves. There are also fun songs (“Twinkle Twinkle Little Bat”), songs with satirical edges (“Beautiful Soup”), sad songs (“Be As A Child”), sweetly naïve songs (“Doll Song”), songs which relate to the disappointments and hassles of everyday life (“Voice of the Lobster” and “Mad Gardener’s Song”), and songs which express a calm, almost Zen-like approach to life (“Is All Our Life a Dream?”).
About the Artist
New York City composer and pianist Bruce Lazarus characterizes his music as diverse, concise, architectural, contemporary, and in turn meditative, energetic, humorous, moody, and exuberant.” His works have often been inspired by the poems of Lewis Carroll, and decades of involvement in the worlds of theater and dance. The CD of his major cycle for solo piano, Musical Explorations of the Messier Catalogue of Star Clusters and Nebulae (Comcon0014/Naxos), is available online at iTunes, Amazon, B&N, and other venues. Lazarus studied at Juilliard where he earned his B.M. and M.M. in music composition.
Thursday, Apr. 30 at 7:30pm
Free Admission
35 minutes
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Bruce Lazarus