Ich fühle Luft von anderem Planeten: The Second Viennese School

Curated and conducted by UCCS Music faculty Colin McAllister, this concert is conceived as a musical counterpart to (and will be staged on the set of) the UCCS/THEATREWORKS student production of the Georg Büchner play Woyzeck, directed by UCCS Theatre and Dance director Kevin Landis.  

Ensemble Peak FreQuency will perform a classic of the early 20th century, Arnold Schoenberg's melodrama Pierrot Lunaire, op.21 for soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano, which sets a cycle of short poems by the Belgian writer Albert Giraud.  Also on the program will be Anton Webern's Variations, op. 27 and the Sound Poems of Hugo Ball. Featured performers include: Solveig Olsen – soprano, Jane Rigler – flute, Sergei Vassiliev – clarinet, Martha Morrison – violin, Susan Smith – cello, Angelina Gadeliya – piano and Colin McAllister – conductor.