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Jacalyn Kreitzer
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Jacalyn Kreitzer, dramatic mezzo-soprano and Artistic Advisor for Opera San Luis Obispo, kicks off the 2012-13 Cal Poly musical season on Saturday, September 29, with a recital in the Spanos Theater on the Cal Poly campus in San Luis Obispo. Her wide-ranging program spans four centuries, from the Baroque to the present.
Kreitzer has sung locally with the San Luis Obispo Symphony and Festival Mosaic, and with many major opera companies and orchestras, from the Los Angeles Philharmonic to the Prague National Symphony, and from the Metropolitan Opera to Paris Chatelet Opera, with conductors such as Jeffrey Tate, Simon Rattle, James Levine, Zubin Mehta, Lorin Maazel, Michael Tilson-Thomas and others.
Several colleagues will join her for the program. Susan Azaret Davies will be piano accompanist. Appearances will also be made by Gabrielle Cassotti, oboe soloist in selections from Canteloube's ethereal Songs of the Auvergne, Shelly Granger, flutist, in Ravel's languid Sheherazade, and Paul Severson, violist, in Brahms' "Geistliches Wiegenlied" and "Gestillte Sehnsucht."
Leading off the program will be music by composers such as Benedetto Marcello and Giovanni Paisiello, from "Twenty-Four Italian Songs and Arias of the 17th and 18th Centuries." Kreitzer observes, "[This]is one of the first anthologies voice teachers around the world are likely to ask beginning students to purchase, to introduce them to the bel canto literature." She continues, fondly, "Someday I will sing the entire collection in recital, for they are still some of the most beautiful art songs I have ever heard."
Between 1923 and 1930 composer Joseph Cantaloube arranged folk songs from the Auvergne region of France, Songs of the Auvergne, for soprano and orchestra or piano. They are in the local language Occitan. Kreitzer notes that "The best known of the songs is the "Bailero," which has been frequently recorded and performed in slight variations of Cantaloube's arrangements, such as for choir or instruments instead of the original soprano solo."
The American composer John Corigliano has built a large body of work in many different genres over the last 40 years. He has made a foray into cabaret songs to lyrics by Mark Adamo. From his set of three cabaret songs, "End of the Line," "Marvelous Invention" and "Dodecaphonia" (or,"They Call her Twelve-Tone Rose"), Jacalyn will sing the third.
In a composer note, Corigliano has written "I had always wanted to write a cabaret song entitled They Call Me Twelve-Tone Rose, only because the delicious absurdity of the title appealed to me. I made the mistake of mentioning this to Mark Adamo . . . and before long the lyric appeared on my desk." The song has been described as "pulp fiction meets contemporary art song!"
Kreitzer's program will conclude with Two Songs, Op. 91 by Johannes Brahms, "Geistliches Wiegenlied" (Sacred Lullaby) and "Gestillte Sehnsucht" (Stilled Longing). These songs have connections with violinist Joseph Joachim and his wife mezzo-soprano Amalie Schneeweiss, both of whom were part of Brahms' musical circle.
Tickets to the recital are available by calling 756-2787. General admission is $12, and $9 for students and seniors. Proceeds go to help fund the Cal Poly Music Department.
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In other matters operatic, Opera San Luis Obispo is seeking singers to be considered for main stage production roles, chorus, and OperaSLO To Go outreach performances. OperaSLO will have a general audition on Saturday, September 22, from 10am until 7pm in the Spanos Theater on the Cal Poly campus. Dr. Brian Asher Alhadeff, Artistic Director of Opera San Luis Obispo, and Jacalyn Kreitzer, Artistic Advisor, are auditors. For information and to schedule an audition, contact Jacalyn Kreitzer.
