FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
HERITAGE HALL | 3102 MAIN STREET (AT EAST 15th, IN EAST VAN), VANCOUVER |Google map
Bar open at 7:00PM | Concert starts at 8:00PM
featuring:
Siri Olesen, Melanie Adams, C.D. Saint, & Joel Klein, four of Vancouver’s leading vocalists
Corey Hamm, one of Canada’s finest pianists
Arneis Quartet, Boston-based winner of the St. Lawrence String Quartet’s John Lad Prize
Ariel Barnes, Vancouver’s celebrated cellist known for his dazzling technique and personal connection
Music on Main’s Modulus Festival returns with Love Thy Neighbour, a new, 10-minute opera from Edward Top and librettist Tom Cone. Set in Jerusalem on a Friday night, the opera weaves together seduction and murder, voyeurism and indifference.
You’ll also hear Jacob Ter Veldhuis’s The Body of Your Dreams for piano and boombox, and Schubert’s awe-inspiring Cello Quintet.
It’s an emotionally charged concert featuring great musicians from across North America.
programme
Set One
Edward Top & Tom Cone‘s Love Thy Neighbour
an a cappella opera
with Siri Olesen (soprano), Melanie Adams (mezzo-soprano), C.D. Saint (tenor), Joel Klein (bass) & Edward Top (conductor)
Jacob Ter Veldhuis‘s The Body of Your Dreams
for piano & boom box
with Corey Hamm (piano)
Set Two
Franz Schubert‘s Cello Quintet in C
with the Arneis Quartet & Ariel Barnes (cello)
