SUNDAY MARCH 16, 2008 @ 3PM
Announcing the World Premiere of
The
restless yearning
towards my Self
A Musical Collaboration
and a Transformative Work in Healing the Heart
“I see it as I am rowing on the dark waters
towards a rock, large and bright—like a moon,
rigged, distant, rising at the end.
It is that marker, moorage, beckoning;
I dreamed of it in the cold, my body rolled,
amphibian-soft, primitive as defense....”
from The Restless Yearning
Towards My Self, Perry Brass.
Most people take many detours in the course of their
lives, as they follow their goals and ambitions, often finding
themselves detracted by a confusion of byways and misleading directions.
But at the center of their actions (and themselves),
lies a psychic/emotional core, that they often lose sight of but the
loss of which leaves them with an almost indelible sense of its
absence. So, instead of re-discovering this core, they erect
“impostors,” stand-ins for their real selves: bright, glowing public
figures, of significance, certainly, to them and much of the outside
world—while the real “Self,” that almost physical realization of the
inner soul, still waits, until some moment of starkest Self
recognition, which brings with it an almost uncontainable feeling of
contentment and a much longed for, blessed unity.
“The restless yearning towards my Self” is about realizing this search,
and finally achieving its goal, when the Self after years of denial
recognizes and claims you; when the deepest part of you speaks to you,
and offers you that genuine feeling of achievement and unity most of us
seek. It is this great recognition that in many ways powers the most
lasting of the Arts, and we have brought to life once more this
recognition of the Self by merging the text of a starkly moving poem by
poet/novelist Perry Brass (“The restless yearning towards my Self”) to
music by opera composer Paula M. Kimper, scored for counter-tenor and
string quartet.
This premiere will be part of
THE DISTAFF SIDE: WOMEN AT WORK:
DOWNTOWN MUSIC PRODUCTIONS
mimi stern-wolfe, artistic director
EAST VILLAGE CONCERT SERIES
St Marks in the Bowery 10th street and 2nd avenue
SUNDAY MARCH 16 @ 3PM
Restless Yearning will feature counter tenor
Marshall Coid, and a string quartet. This piece lasts approximately 26
minutes.
Also on this program will be MADELEINE DRING (Trio for oboe, flute
& piano); MARY CAROL WARWICK (premiere) (Viola Sonata); (Song:
(Imagination) (Ilsa Gilbert ) Dan Strba (vla); & Mimi
Stern-Wolfe, piano.
MEIRA WARSHAUER (Aecha) with Downtown Chamber Trio A.
Bolotowsky, fl;; Jeffrey Hale, oboe; LAURA WOLFE, vocals and
guitar with DAVE EGGAR:, cello; (Original songs); MIRA SPEKTOR, (Turn
Around) ;Songs: Maeve Hoglund, soprano.
Suggested donation: $10, 15; information: dmpmimi@msn.com;;
www.downtownmusicproductions.org; 212 477 1594
Marshall Coid Mimi Stern-Wolfe Paula
Kimper Perry Brass
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