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Arizona Cultural Forum 2009
NEVERMORE: DREAMS
THE ONLY REALITY
An exploration in lecture and
performance of the extraordinary influence Edgar Allan Poe exerted on
Claude Debussy and the French Symbolist poets.
Celebrate Poe’s 200th birthday with Tucson’s best known scholars and
performers including William A. Fry, Brian Moon, Harry Clark, Paula
Fan, Rex Woods, Charles Roe, James Reel, Marie-Pierre le Hir and others
in scintillating lectures, music, poetry readings and theatrical works.
Scroll across the page and click on the photos to read short bios of some of our guests.
Schedule
of Events:
Friday,
April 17, 2009, 10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Free Admission
Venue - AZ SENIOR ACADEMY -13701 E.Old
Spanish Tr.
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9:30-10 a.m.-Meet & Greet
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10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.-Lecture/Music Performance: Poe &
American Composers presented by Brian Moon wih Vocalists: Connie
Nokes-Roberts & Dennis Tamblyn
Dr. Moon, a UA musicologist,
has created a fascinating lecture with musical performances of the many
American composers inspired to set Poe’s work to song. Experience
rarely heard settings by such diverse composers as John Philip Sousa,
Irving Berlin and Stephen Foster, and a special treat—an
audience-participation performance of The Raven.
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11:30 a.m.-
12:30 p.m. Theatrical Portrait/Music Performance: Art, The
Most Beautiful Deception, written by Harry Clark
Dr. Rex Woods, piano,
James Reel and Steve McKee, readers
A specially created
theater piece for two readers and pianist. Rex Woods will perform
several of Debussy’s marvelous Preludes for solo piano, as James Reel
and Steve McKee employ the words of Debussy, Poe, and friends and foes
of the two artists, to make dramatic sense of Debussy’s comment on art,
“ art, the most beautiful deception.”
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Saturday, April 18, 2009, 9:30 a.m. - 4p.m. Free Admission
Venue - UA
POETRY CENTER
- 1508
East Helen Street (At Vine Avenue)
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| 9:30 - 10 a.m.-Meet & Greet |
10:00 - 11:30 a.m.-Lecture: Mr. Poe: The Man and His
Poetry
Presented by Dr. William A. Fry
An overview of Poe's life,
his theory of poetry, readings from some of the poems, and time for
questions and comments from our audience. Dr. Fry is a lifetime board
member of the E.A. Poe Society of Baltimore, and a frequent lecturer on
Poe for nearly 40 years.
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11:30 – 12:30 p.m.- Theatrical Portrait/Music Performance: Art,
The Most Beautiful Deception, written by Harry Clark
Dr. Rex Woods, piano,
James Reel and Steve McKee, readers
A
specially created theater piece for two readers and pianist. Rex Woods
will perform several of Debussy’s marvelous Preludes for solo piano, as
James Reel and Steve McKee employ the words of Debussy, Poe, and
friends and foes of the two artists, to make dramatic sense of
Debussy’s comment on art, “ art, the most beautiful deception.”
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12:30
p.m - 1:15 p.m. LUNCH
A box lunch may be purchased at the
UA Poetry Center and enjoyed outdoors. Presenters and audience will
have time to mingle and continue the conversation.
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1:15 - 2: 45 p.m. Lecture/Music Performance: Poe &
American Composers presented by Brian Moon wih Vocalists: Connie
Nokes-Roberts & Dennis Tamblyn
Dr.
Moon, a UA musicologist, has created a fascinating lecture with musical
performances of the many American composers inspired to set Poe’s work
to song. Experience rarely heard settings by such diverse composers as
John Philip Sousa, Irving Berlin and Stephen Foster, and a special
treat—an audience-participation performance of The Raven. |
2: 45 - 4 p.m. Lecture/Music
Performance: Poetry as Music, Music as Poetry: Baudelaire, Verlaine and
French Symbolism, Presented by Dr. Marie-Pierre Lehir
Performances of French art songs by Charles Roe and Paula Fan
The French Symbolist
poets were deeply influenced by the writings of Poe. Dr. Lehir, a UA
French professor, will be joined by UA music stalwarts baritone Charles
Roe and pianist Paula Fan in French art songs of Claude Debussy, Henri
Duparc and Reynaldo Hahn. Explore Poe’s sentiment that “Music, when
combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry.”
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Parking: Free parking is available all day
on weekends
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To register: call 520-400-5439
or E-Mail us.
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Chamber Music PLUS SW appreciates
your consideration for support. Tickets and grants cover 80% of our
budget. Your support is much appreciated. Thank You
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