Klarinet Archive - Posting 000047.txt from 2003/07

From: "Thiel, Mark" <mark.thiel@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] experimental opera
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 16:41:58 -0400

Intriguing story about some experimental opera in NY Times today:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/01/arts/music/01VERA.html?th

It may not be possible to open this without signing on to the Times so I'll
quote a bit (I hope short enough so the copyright enforcers don't break my
knees):

"For example "Salome's Flea Circus," which opened the first performance of
Mr. Eaton's program on Wednesday night, was a 10-minute showpiece for the
admirably versatile clarinetist Jean Kopperud, here portraying the biblical
Salome in later life, who has sunk to touring the circuit with a flea
circus. Dressed as an exotic belly dancer, the limber, long-haired and
fearless Ms. Kopperud alternated playing insinuating instrumental lines on
the clarinet with speaking text in a raspy Sprechstimme style, all the while
twisting, gyrating and falling to her back on the stage floor with her legs
kicked up. Eventually she executed a bedraggled version of Salome's dance,
as the pianist, Stephen Gosling, while hardly missing a note of Mr. Eaton's
Expressionistic piano music, yanked off one of Salome's seven veils with his
teeth."
(copyright NY Times 7/1/03) If you want to see the picture you have to go
to the site.

Now that's my idea of culture -- a stripping clarinettist!! Any of you
NYers catch this?

Mark Thiel

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