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Later the Same Evening
Later the Same Evening, an opera inspired by five paintings of Edward Hopper,
with music by Pulitzer Prize-nominated composer John Musto and a libretto by Mark Campbell, will be given its New York premiere by the Manhattan School of Music Opera Theater on Wednesday, December 10 at 7:30 pm in the School’s John C. Borden Auditorium. Additional performances will take place on Friday, December 12 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, December 14 at 2:30 pm. Michael Barrett will conduct with the stage direction by Leon Major. The set design is by Erhard Rom, costumes are by David Roberts, and the lighting design is by Scott Bolman. Later the Same Evening is a 75-minute production and will be performed without intermission. A pre-opera discussion will be offered on Wednesday, December 10 at 6:00 pm in the School’s Greenfield Recital Hall. Gordon Ostrowski, assistant dean of opera studies, will coordinate the free discussion among the opera’s artistic team.
Later the Same Evening, a joint project of the National Gallery of Art, the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center and the University of Maryland School of Music, received its world premiere on November 15, 2007, in conjunction with the first comprehensive Edward Hopper exhibit mounted in American museums outside New York City in more than 25 years. Later the Same Evening breathes life into the figures depicted in five Hopper paintings and brings them all together on an eventful evening in New York City during one night in 1932. All five Hopper paintings, “Room in New York” (1932), “Hotel Window” (1955), “Hotel Room” (1931), “Two on the Aisle” (1927), and “Automat” (1927) will be displayed throughout the entire opera.
Tickets, priced at $20; $12 for students and seniors, are available by calling the Manhattan School of Music Manhattan School of Music Concert Office at 917.493.4428 or by visiting www.msmnyc.edu. The MSM Concert Office is open Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and one hour before curtain for ticketed events.
Manhattan School of Music is located at the northwest corner of 122nd Street and Broadway, and is accessible by public transportation. Several MTA bus lines stop within two blocks at Broadway and 122nd Street: the M5 arrives at Riverside Drive, the M4 and M104 arrive at Broadway, and the M60 and M11 arrive at Amsterdam Avenue. From the 116th Street stop the No. 1 subway line. If arriving via Metro North, stop at Harlem-125th Street and board the M60 bus from any subway line with a 125th stop.
Composer and pianist John Musto is regarded as one of the most versatile musicians before the public today. His artistry as composer and pianist was made clear in 2006 when he appeared as soloist in the premieres of his Piano Concerto No. 1 and No. 2 in the space of five months. Michael Barrett led the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at the Caramoor Festival in the first concerto, and George Steel led the Gotham Sinfionetta at the Miller Theater in the second. As an opera composer, John Musto has teamed with Mark Campbell on three operas in the past four years, with a fourth opera, An Inspector from Rome, currently being composed for the Opera Theatre of St. Louis and Wolf Trap Opera. Their first opera together was the comic opera Volpone, a commission by Wolf Trap in 2004 that was hailed as a masterpiece by the Washington Post. It received a second Wolf Trap production in 2007. Their second opera was Later the Same Evening, followed by Bastianello four months later, a commission from the New York Festival of Song to celebrate their 20th Anniversary. Mr. Musto was a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for his orchestral song cycle Dove Sta Amore. In 2000, he was awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship at Bellagio, Italy, and in 2006, was chosen for a Lakond Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has also garnered two Mid-Atlantic Emmys and two CINE Awards for his scores written for public television. Mr. Musto has been featured on the Great Performers series at Lincoln Center in 1995 and the Composer Portrait series at Columbia University’s Miller Theater in 2001. John Musto earned his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees at Manhattan School of Music, pursuing piano studies with Seymour Lipkin. He also studied privately with Paul Jacobs. His music is published by Peer Music Classical.
Mark Campbell wrote the libretto for John Musto’s Volpone, which received its premiere at Wolf Trap in 2004, directed by Leon Major. He also wrote the libretti for two comic operas commissioned by the New York Festival of Song for its 20th Anniversary -- Bastianello and Lucrezia, with music by John Musto and William Bolcom, receiving premieres in March 2008. A new full-length comic opera co-commissioned by Opera Theatre of St. Louis and Wolf Trap, with music by John Musto, will premiere in 2010. Past productions include Songs from an Unmade Bed
(New York Theatre Workshop); The Audience (The Transport Group); Splendora (Bay Street Theatre Festival and American Place Theatre); Chang & Eng (SOBT) and Light Shall Lift Them (BAM). Among his awards are two Richard Rodgers Awards, the first recipient of the Kleban Foundation Award for Lyricist, a New York Foundation for the Arts Playwriting Fellowship, three Drama Desk Award nominations, a Rockefeller Foundation Award, and a Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Award. Other projects include a screenplay (with co-writer Ivy Meeropol) for The Happy Island.
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Recognized as one of the foremost opera training programs in the world, Manhattan School of Music’s Opera Program attracts some of the most talented young singers from the US and more than forty countries. The program is led by Dona D. Vaughn, who is Artistic Director of Opera Programs and Gordon Ostrowski, who is Assistant Dean of Opera Studies. Students in the program refine their technique and develop their artistry under the guidance of a faculty of eminent artist-teachers while gaining exposure before New York City audiences through performances in opera scenes, community outreach programs, and two-fully staged productions each year.
The Manhattan School of Music Opera Program has a long and proud tradition of producing some of the finest operatic artists in America and abroad. The school’s opera productions have been praised by The New York Times “as a significant contribution to operatic life in New York City,” and many students have gone on to major careers. Among notable alumnae are Sopranos Alexandra Deshorties, Olivia Gorra, Catherine Malfitano, Tonna Miller and Dawn Upshaw and Mezzo-Sopranos Jennifer Dudley, Susan Graham, and Delora Zajick of the Metropolitan Opera. Alumni appearing at New York City Opera are Sopranos Pamela Armstrong, Patricia Coffen, Lauren Flanigan and Nina Warren; Mezzo-Soprano Beth Clayton; Tenors Matthew Chellis and Brandon Jovanovich; and Baritone Scott Altman. Another noted alumnus is Conductor George Manahan, Music Director of the New York City Opera. The Manhattan School of Music Opera Theater has issued CDs of Ned Rorem’s Miss Julie, Benjamin Britten’s Albert Herring, Gaetano Donizetti’s Il campanello di notte, Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti, Gustav Holst’s Savitri, Nicolas Flagello’s The Piper, Ludwig Spohr’s Beauty and the Beast, the world premiere recordings of Daniel Catan’s Rappaccini’s Daughter, William Mayer’s A Death in the Family, Scott Eyerly’s The House of Seven Gables, Robert Ward’s Roman Fever, Thomas Pasatieri’s The Seagull, and Lee Hoiby’s A Month in the Country.
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Manhattan School of Music Opera Theater
Dona D. Vaughn, Artistic Director
Wednesday, December 10 and Friday, December 12 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, December 14 at 2:30 pm
John C. Borden Auditorium
A New York Premiere
Later the Same Evening
Music by John Musto
Libretto by Mark Campbell
with music by Pulitzer Prize-nominated composer John Musto and a libretto by Mark Campbell, will be given its New York premiere by the Manhattan School of Music Opera Theater on Wednesday, December 10 at 7:30 pm in the School’s John C. Borden Auditorium. Additional performances will take place on Friday, December 12 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, December 14 at 2:30 pm. Michael Barrett will conduct with the stage direction by Leon Major. The set design is by Erhard Rom, costumes are by David Roberts, and the lighting design is by Scott Bolman. Later the Same Evening is a 75-minute production and will be performed without intermission. A pre-opera discussion will be offered on Wednesday, December 10 at 6:00 pm in the School’s Greenfield Recital Hall. Gordon Ostrowski, assistant dean of opera studies, will coordinate the free discussion among the opera’s artistic team.
Later the Same Evening, a joint project of the National Gallery of Art, the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center and the University of Maryland School of Music, received its world premiere on November 15, 2007, in conjunction with the first comprehensive Edward Hopper exhibit mounted in American museums outside New York City in more than 25 years. Later the Same Evening breathes life into the figures depicted in five Hopper paintings and brings them all together on an eventful evening in New York City during one night in 1932. All five Hopper paintings, “Room in New York” (1932), “Hotel Window” (1955), “Hotel Room” (1931), “Two on the Aisle” (1927), and “Automat” (1927) will be displayed throughout the entire opera.
Tickets, priced at $20; $12 for students and seniors, are available by calling the Manhattan School of Music Manhattan School of Music Concert Office at 917.493.4428 or by visiting www.msmnyc.edu. The MSM Concert Office is open Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and one hour before curtain for ticketed events.
Manhattan School of Music is located at the northwest corner of 122nd Street and Broadway, and is accessible by public transportation. Several MTA bus lines stop within two blocks at Broadway and 122nd Street: the M5 arrives at Riverside Drive, the M4 and M104 arrive at Broadway, and the M60 and M11 arrive at Amsterdam Avenue. From the 116th Street stop the No. 1 subway line. If arriving via Metro North, stop at Harlem-125th Street and board the M60 bus from any subway line with a 125th stop.
Composer and pianist John Musto is regarded as one of the most versatile musicians before the public today. His artistry as composer and pianist was made clear in 2006 when he appeared as soloist in the premieres of his Piano Concerto No. 1 and No. 2 in the space of five months. Michael Barrett led the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at the Caramoor Festival in the first concerto, and George Steel led the Gotham Sinfionetta at the Miller Theater in the second. As an opera composer, John Musto has teamed with Mark Campbell on three operas in the past four years, with a fourth opera, An Inspector from Rome, currently being composed for the Opera Theatre of St. Louis and Wolf Trap Opera. Their first opera together was the comic opera Volpone, a commission by Wolf Trap in 2004 that was hailed as a masterpiece by the Washington Post. It received a second Wolf Trap production in 2007. Their second opera was Later the Same Evening, followed by Bastianello four months later, a commission from the New York Festival of Song to celebrate their 20th Anniversary. Mr. Musto was a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for his orchestral song cycle Dove Sta Amore. In 2000, he was awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship at Bellagio, Italy, and in 2006, was chosen for a Lakond Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has also garnered two Mid-Atlantic Emmys and two CINE Awards for his scores written for public television. Mr. Musto has been featured on the Great Performers series at Lincoln Center in 1995 and the Composer Portrait series at Columbia University’s Miller Theater in 2001. John Musto earned his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees at Manhattan School of Music, pursuing piano studies with Seymour Lipkin. He also studied privately with Paul Jacobs. His music is published by Peer Music Classical.
Mark Campbell wrote the libretto for John Musto’s Volpone, which received its premiere at Wolf Trap in 2004, directed by Leon Major. He also wrote the libretti for two comic operas commissioned by the New York Festival of Song for its 20th Anniversary -- Bastianello and Lucrezia, with music by John Musto and William Bolcom, receiving premieres in March 2008. A new full-length comic opera co-commissioned by Opera Theatre of St. Louis and Wolf Trap, with music by John Musto, will premiere in 2010. Past productions include Songs from an Unmade Bed
(New York Theatre Workshop); The Audience (The Transport Group); Splendora (Bay Street Theatre Festival and American Place Theatre); Chang & Eng (SOBT) and Light Shall Lift Them (BAM). Among his awards are two Richard Rodgers Awards, the first recipient of the Kleban Foundation Award for Lyricist, a New York Foundation for the Arts Playwriting Fellowship, three Drama Desk Award nominations, a Rockefeller Foundation Award, and a Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Award. Other projects include a screenplay (with co-writer Ivy Meeropol) for The Happy Island.
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Recognized as one of the foremost opera training programs in the world, Manhattan School of Music’s Opera Program attracts some of the most talented young singers from the US and more than forty countries. The program is led by Dona D. Vaughn, who is Artistic Director of Opera Programs and Gordon Ostrowski, who is Assistant Dean of Opera Studies. Students in the program refine their technique and develop their artistry under the guidance of a faculty of eminent artist-teachers while gaining exposure before New York City audiences through performances in opera scenes, community outreach programs, and two-fully staged productions each year.
The Manhattan School of Music Opera Program has a long and proud tradition of producing some of the finest operatic artists in America and abroad. The school’s opera productions have been praised by The New York Times “as a significant contribution to operatic life in New York City,” and many students have gone on to major careers. Among notable alumnae are Sopranos Alexandra Deshorties, Olivia Gorra, Catherine Malfitano, Tonna Miller and Dawn Upshaw and Mezzo-Sopranos Jennifer Dudley, Susan Graham, and Delora Zajick of the Metropolitan Opera. Alumni appearing at New York City Opera are Sopranos Pamela Armstrong, Patricia Coffen, Lauren Flanigan and Nina Warren; Mezzo-Soprano Beth Clayton; Tenors Matthew Chellis and Brandon Jovanovich; and Baritone Scott Altman. Another noted alumnus is Conductor George Manahan, Music Director of the New York City Opera. The Manhattan School of Music Opera Theater has issued CDs of Ned Rorem’s Miss Julie, Benjamin Britten’s Albert Herring, Gaetano Donizetti’s Il campanello di notte, Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti, Gustav Holst’s Savitri, Nicolas Flagello’s The Piper, Ludwig Spohr’s Beauty and the Beast, the world premiere recordings of Daniel Catan’s Rappaccini’s Daughter, William Mayer’s A Death in the Family, Scott Eyerly’s The House of Seven Gables, Robert Ward’s Roman Fever, Thomas Pasatieri’s The Seagull, and Lee Hoiby’s A Month in the Country.
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Manhattan School of Music Opera Theater
Dona D. Vaughn, Artistic Director
Wednesday, December 10 and Friday, December 12 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, December 14 at 2:30 pm
John C. Borden Auditorium
A New York Premiere
Later the Same Evening
Music by John Musto
Libretto by Mark Campbell
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