|
|
Patience
for the Harvest -February 11, 2007
Southwest Premiere
a
brief description
. "Celebrity
is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent."
- Emily
Dickinson
 Harry Clark created "Patience for the Harvest " for Jill
Clayburgh, who gave the world premiere and recorded the work.
The “Swedish Nightingale,” Jenny Lind, renown as the world’s most
famous opera singer, and Emily Dickinson, America’s unknown, reclusive
poet, -- though living contemporaneous lives, seemingly would have
never chanced to meet. But, on one memorable October evening in 1851,
at the Dickinson’s Amherst homestead, a dinner celebrating Lind’s near
completion of her spectacular U.S. barnstorming tour with the master
showman P.T. Barnum; Emily & Jenny’s lives intersect with profound
implications for both, over the next two decades.
Witness the fabric that binds two of the most remarkable women artists
and the disparate paths they took to claim their respective harvests.
About the music
The musical selections are for cello and
piano. It would be impossible to not compare the voice of the supreme
Jenny Lind with anyone performing so - we opted for an all instrumental
approach, selecting the cello as the voice.
Selections include Handel, Bach, Schumann, Chopin, Mendelssohn, and
American
spirituals and hymns.
Performers
 Starring in the Southwest premiere of Patoence for the
Harvest is beloved Emmy winning actress Sharon Gless.
Blonde leading-lady Sharon Gless owns the distinction of being the
last-ever "contract player" at Universal Studios. Signed by Universal
in 1969, Gless did yeoman work
as a supporting player on such series as Marcus Welby MD and films like Airport 75.
She was a regular on Faraday and
Company (1973) before achieving a degree of stardom as Maggie, "Girl Friday", on the
popular series Switch
(1975-78). Her next series was the weekly House Calls (1981), in which she
replaced Lynn Redgrave. It
was another replacement assignment that solidified Gless as a bankable name: in 1982,
she replaced Meg Foster as
NYPD officer Chris Cagney on
the detective series Cagney and Lacey.
She remained in this role till the series' end in 1988, winning two
Emmy awards along the way, then reprised the part (with her co-star Tyne Daly) in the 1995 TV movie. Sharon Gless' other role on a
TV-series was as the public-defender heroine of The Trials of Rosie
O'Neill .(1990-92), produced by Gless' husband, Barney
Rosenzweig. Most recently, fans enjoyed Sharon Gless in the role of Debbie, in the five-year run
of Queer As Folk. (from Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide)
The Clark Schuldmann Duo
will be on hand for this special program.
Performance details:
Show time: 3
p.m.
Pre concert chat: 2:30 p.m.
Venue: The Berger Performing Arts Center, 1200 West Speedway Blvd.
Directions- Click
here for directions to the hall.
Individual
Ticket Price: $30
|
|
|
