The program also includes Pribaoutki and Ragtime. Eos will also make a return engagement to Purchase College in Purchase, New York, with this program on March 2. H.K. Gruber, the first guest conductor of the Eos Orchestra, will appear on April 19 in a program of Gruber and Kurt Weill. H.K. Gruber is one of the most well known figures on the Austrian contemporary music scene. Without Words completes the Eos season on May 17.
Text guides the musical gestures in opera, dictating form and content in composition.
Jake Heggie is a young composer of great range and talent who has focused primarily on the creation of vocal work for the past decade. In 1995 he was a winner of G. Schirmer's National Art Song Competition, and Frederica von Stade commissioned him to create a variety of songs which she has recorded. He collaborated with playwright Terrence McNally on Dead Man Walking, which will premiere in Fall 2000 at San Francisco Opera. Other activities, in addition to education and outreach programs to expose school-age children in New York City to music and the live concert experience, reflect the Eos vision of musical presentation that steps beyond the confines of the concert stage, seeking to engage audiences on multiple levels. Senior and student discounts are available.