“Supernatural”
Ross Edwards: White Ghost Dancing (7:00)
Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin (31:00)
INTERMISSION
Purcell: Suite from The Fairy Queen (20:00)
MacMillan: The Confession of Isobel Gowdie (26:00)
Why This Program
This program consists of four stories involving aspects of the supernatural, ranging from an Aboriginal myth to music written in the second decade of the twentieth century. The music encompasses an equally wide range of musical styles. Written in a minimalist style, the Edwards is derived from a story of the Aboriginal people mistaking early Europeans in Australia for the ghosts of their ancestors who were believed to be light colored. The ballet streetscape of Bartok is a harsh depiction of prostitution in the 1920s and love of the Mandarin whose infatuation isn’t quelled even by his death.
The delicate colors of the Purcell accompany the 17th-century adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. MacMillan’s tone poem explores the period of the English Reformation, when witch-hunting was pursued with hysterical fervor, and, when combined with a toxic cocktail of torture and forced confessions, created a maelstrom of cruelty.
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More dull. Another program with the Bartok…and then the overplayed music of MacMillan. At least it offers something by Ross Edwards, an unjustly neglected composers.
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So it’s their fault someone else programmed the Bartok?
By what standard is MacMillan overplayed?? Seriously?
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