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| Event Name | Date / Time | Venue | Buy Tickets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Concert: Another Sunrise | Monday, May 14, 2012 - 6:30pm | Benaroya Hall | |
| 2012 Sunrise to Sunset Gala Dinner | Monday, May 14, 2012 - 8:30pm | Four Seasons Hotel |
Spring Concert: Another Sunrise
Venue: Benaroya Hall
Time: Monday, May 14, 2012 - 6:30pm
Additional times: 6:00PM: Meet the Composer: Jake Heggie & Gene Scheer
Another Sunrise, our second commission from composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer, tells of the day-to-day survival of Polish dissident Krystyna Zywulska. With her mother in tow, Krystyna walked out of the Warsaw ghetto in broad daylight in 1942, and joined the Polish resistance. Captured by the Gestapo and sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, she wrote satiric poetry that became camp anthems of resistance. The gifted soprano Caitlin Lynch sings in the world premiere of this theatrical song cycle. You’ll also hear the talented Northwest Boychoir perform a set of beautiful Yiddish and Hebrew folk songs, in a haunting arrangement created by Viktor Ullmann in the Terezín concentration camp. Works by Pavel Haas and Syzmon Laks are eloquent celebrations of national identities under assault by the Nazi onslaught. Composed in 1939, just after the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, Haas’ suite for oboe and piano expresses an intense love of country by incorporating the melody of the St. Wenceslas chorale - the emblematic Czech musical symbol. Laks’ third string quartet, his first composition after liberation from Auschwitz, returns to folk and dance elements of regions of his native Poland.
2012 Gala Dinner
Venue: Four Seasons Hotel Ballroom
Time: Monday, May 14, 2012 - 8:30pm
Circle May 14 in red right now. Our spring concert brings the world premiere of Jake Heggie's Another Sunrise, and concludes a stellar fourteenth season! But the evening will be just beginning.
Immediately after the concert, guests for our Sunrise to Sunset! gala dinner will stroll to the stunning Four Seasons Hotel Seattle at 99 Union Street. Amidst the beautiful Pacific Northwest decor, we will join Jake Heggie, Gene Scheer, MOR's Artistic Director Mina Miller, the evening's stellar performers . . . and a very special guest. We're honored that Krystyna's son Tadeusz Andrzejewski will be traveling from Paris to join us to be part of this occasion and share his reflections on his mother's life and ideals.
It's an unforgettable event you won't want to miss. To guarantee your place (seating is limited) at our Gala, buy your tickets now. Please mark your calendars for May 14, for Sunrise to Sunset!
Tickets for this unforgettable evening are $250 per guest.
