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Morton Subotnick’s Monodrama, from Jacob's Room, Debuts on San Francisco Symphony’s American Mavericks Series

Mar. 02, 2012

Morton Subotnick’s <em>Monodrama</em>, from <em>Jacob's Room</em>, Debuts on San Francisco Symphony’s American Mavericks Series

Morton Subotnick’s Monodrama, from Jacob’s Room, the composer’s new adaptation of music from his critically acclaimed chamber opera, premieres on the San Francisco Symphony’s American Mavericks series on March 11 in San Francisco. Commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony, Subotnick's Monodrama is a reworking of two scenes from the opera that provides a new, striking vignette into the internal narrative of loss, terror and personal confrontation with tragedy that is the world of Jacob’s Room. Members of the San Francisco Symphony premiere Monodrama, featuring Joan La Barbara and conducted by Jeffrey Milarsky.

The work travels with American Mavericks to Ann Arbor on March 25, and Carnegie Hall on March 30. The concert at Carnegie Hall marks the final performance on the 2012 American Mavericks series.

Subotnick's original incantation of Jacob's Room was commissioned by the Kronos Quartet who gave the premiere of the work in its first version for string quartet alone at the Cleveland Museum of Art's Gartner Auditorium on October 20, 1985.

Michael Tilson Thomas' and the San Francisco Symphony’s annual slate of concerts and events paying tribute to the leading voices, past and present, of 20th and 21st-century music, American Mavericks features an extraordinary line up of over 25 concerts in four cities from March 6 through March 30, 2012.

In addition to the world premiere performances and tour of Monodrama, Morton Subotnick will be honored with a Qwartz Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award on March 29 in Paris. The Paris-based Qwartz Foundation, sponsored by the French Ministry of Culture, the SACEM performance rights agency and French International Radio, is an international cultural organization whose mission is to promote new works of electronic music and the advancement of the art form. Each year Qwartz honors outstanding artists, recording labels and organizations for their leading efforts in the field of new electronic music. Morton Subotnick is honored at a gala event held in Paris’ Centquatre on March 29.

Learn more on Morton Subotnick and his music at www.schott-music.com and www.mortonsubotnick.com.

For details on American Mavericks, visit www.americanmavericks.org.

Morton Subotnick
Monodrama, from Jacob's Room (2012)
for voice, 2 violins, viola, cello and keyboard
ca. 25’

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