Word, Image, Music

Marc André Hamelin, Pianist, and
Jody Karin Applebaum, Soprano

Special Cabaret Performance at the
Philadelphia Museum of Art

8:00 pm, Friday, October 28, 2005
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Van Pelt Auditorium
Benjamin Franklin Parkway & 26th Street Philadelphia

Tickets: $20; PMA members $16; students $10.
Call the PMA to order: 215.235.7469 or purchase at the museum. Phone orders: $3.00 handling charge; $2.50 PMA members. Seating is unreserved and does not include museum admission.

The power of the written word to inspire vivid imagery is undeniable, whether in the mind or in a tangible medium such as music and visual art. In this performance specially arranged in association with the Penn Humanities Forum on Word & Image and the Philadelphia Museum of Art's exhibition of Edvard Munch's Mermaid, soprano Jody Karin Applebaum and pianist Marc-André Hamelin explore music-literature-painting connections in works by Ives, Ornstein, Weill, Schumann, Schubert, Satie, and others.

The Penn Humanities Forum is pleased to again
host—this year in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art—soprano Jody Karin Applebaum and piano virtuoso Marc-André Hamelin, who in October 2004 produced a special, one-night only performance on the Music of Sleep and Dreams.

Program

Le Verger  (LeMaire), Léon Xanrof
Toutou  (Bruant) , Charles Cuvillier
La Diva de l’Empire  (Bonnaud, Blès) , Erik Satie
Complainte de la Seine (Magre) , Kurt Weill
Dame in Weiß, Friedrich Hollaender
In der Nacht, op. 12, no. 5, Robert Schumann
Twilight  (Tyutchev), Nikolai Medtner
Il Vole  (Apollinaire), Francis Poulenc
Gretchen am Spinnrade  (Goethe), Franz Schubert
Love Went A-Riding  (Coleridge), Frank Bridge

Intermission

Stripsody, Cathy Berberian
Suicide in an Airplane, Leo Ornstein
Down East, Charles Ives
Circus Band, Charles Ives
O Close the Curtain (Weinstein), William Bolcom
Lime Jello Marshmallow Cottage Cheese Surprise, William Bolcom
Christopher Robin (A.A. Milne), Bruce Montgomery
The Twelve Days After Christmas, Frederick Silver

Suggested Reading

Wikipedia on the Cabaret.

Cabaret 101 by John Kenrick

Edvard Munch, The Dance of Life Site

Wikipedia on Edvard Munch

Image used with permission. At the Moulin Rouge: The Dance. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1890. Oil on canvas. Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Henry P. McIlhenny Collection in memory of Frances P. McIlhenny, 1986.