PNME Program Book 2018

To love
and
be loved
i want to live from Shelter. . . david lang
text by Deborah Artman
If this world would stop from FACES . . . Lee Kesselman
text by Amanda Riva
Amor . . . William Bolcom
text by Arnold Weinstein
yes I said yes I will Yes . . . Amy Beth Kirsten
text by James Joyce, Ulysses
WEEK 3
July 20–21 8 pm
“that’s what life is all about “
an evening with soprano Lindsay Kesselman
Song with the Violins . . . John Bucchino
text by John Bucchino
I Am Writing Poetry from FACES . . . Lee Kesselman
text by Rita Dove
Covenant . . . Jeffrey Nytch
The Country Wife from Three Portraits . . . Kieren
MacMillan
text by Dana Gioia
“i want to live” . . . david lang
“I want to live” is from an evening-length piece called “SHELTER” that looks at different ways we think of
shelter in our lives —a place, a need, a feeling, something we may have, something we may lack. It occurred
to me that the sentence “I want to live where you live” could take on many of those meanings.
“If this world would stop” from FACES . . . Lee Kesselman
Tonight, there are three snapshots of interior life from my FACES—all explore the gap between the faces
people show and the ones they keep to themselves. “If this world could stop” is the voice of the overlooked
one, the the one who just wants to fit in and be noticed.
“Amor “. . . William Bolcom
A woman steps out on the town . . . and is noticed.
“yes I said yes I will Yes” . . . Amy Beth Kirsten
The text is about self-abandon and the end of all resistance.
“i carry your heart” from FACES . . . Lee Kesselman
i carry your heart from FACES . . . Lee Kesselman
text by e.e. cummings
i live in pain . . . david lang
A full-fledged profession of love.
text by david lang after Beatriz de Dia continued . . .
Faults from How Do I Love Thee? . . . Alicia Bachorik
16 text by Sara Teasdale
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