Michael Torke: Strawberry Fields

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"The clear audience favorite." - TIME

"A moving work - at the opening performance, tears in the audience flowed nearly as plentiful as on a good Madame Butterfly night." - NEW YORK NEWSDAY

While still a compostion student at Yale, Michael Torke practically defined post-minimalism, a music in which eclectic young composers utilize the repetitive structures of a previous generation to incorporate musical techniques from both the classical tradition and the contemporary pop world. Michael Torke's 1999 one-act opera Strawberry Fields had its premiere performance at Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, New York. Four months later it was given at Lincoln Center, and the following year it was telecast in WNET's Great Performances series. A.R. Gurney's libretto is a gently comic story of a confused old lady who imagines she is in the front seat at the opera while sitting on a bench in Central Park. Strawberry Fields is the second part of a commissioned trilogy called Central Park: Act I, The Festival of Regrets, is by Deborah Drattell and Wendy Wasserstein; Act III, The Food of Love, is by Robert Beaser and Terrance McNally. First performed in Troy, New York in March, 2005, Pentecost is one of Michael Torke's most recent productions. Pentecost was originally commissioned in 1998 by Fr. Dan Pakenham as a piece for organ, strings and soprano. In 2004 it was augmented by winds and brass to create a companion piece for Strawberry Fields. Pentecost is the Christian holiday commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles, and the text for the work is taken fom the Book of Acts of the Apostles.

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