Infamous Composers!

Each May, Apple Orange Pair has offered these unique programs in New Haven, CT, as a crowd-pleasing “composer roast,” featuring the music of history’s most notorious composers alongside entertaining stories and anecdotes about their lives. Our “Infamous Composers” programs have also served as important venues for premiere performances of new pieces we have commissioned.

Infamous Composers I: First performed May 28, 2011.

Infamous Composers II: First performed May 26, 2012.

Infamous Composers I

Musical program:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Aria from the Magic Flute

Carlo Gesualdo, O vos omnes and Moro, lasso (arr. AOP)

Robert Schumann, selections from Dichterliebe (arr. AOP)

I. Im wunderschönen Monat Mai
II. Aus meinen Tränen spriessen
V. Ich will meine Seele tauchen
VI. Im Rheim, im heil’gen Strome
X. Hör ich das Liedchen klingen
XIV. Allnächtlich im Traume

Robert Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, Première Fantaisie pour cor et harpe

Louis Vierne, selections from Quatre poèmes grecs pour chant et harpe, Op. 60 (arr. for horn by Emily Boyer)

I. Offrande à Pan
II. Le Repos
III. Offrande à Kypris
IV. Chanson pour avril

*Russell Nadel, Orchard Sunset (2011)

 

*commissioned by AOP

Infamous Composers II

Musical program:

Richard Wagner, Song to Venus from Tannhäuser

Barbara Strozzi, Selections from Cantate, ariette, e duetti, Op. 2 (arr. AOP)

Amor dormiglione
La Vendetta

*Naftali Schindler, Chants, Pastorals, and Antiphons of the New Moon (2012)

Claude Debussy, En Bâteau (arr. AOP)

Erik Satie

Gnossiennes 1, 2, and 4
Gymnopédie (arr. AOP)

*Michael Weinstein-Reiman, Roland (2012)

 

*commissioned by AOP