WNYC; New Sounds Live; Hildegurls Electric Ordo Virtutum
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- New Sounds Live
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- WNYC (New York, New York)
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- The World Financial Center Arts & Events presents as part of the music series New Sounds Live with John Schaefer : Hildegurls Electric Ordo Virtutum (Lisa Bielawa, Kitty Brazelton, Eve Beglarian, Elaine Kaplinsky, voices; Grethe Barrett Holby, director). Hildegurls Electric Ordo Virtutum Adapted from Hildegard van Bingen (1098-1179) Prologue Lisa Bielawa Act I The Soul encounters the Virtues but finds the path they propose difficult. She consorts with the Devil who insults the Virtues. Kitty Brazelton Act II Led by Humility, Queen of Virtues, the individual Virtues introduce themselves and praise each other. Eve Beglarian Act III The Soul suffers in the embrace of the Devil. She retums to implore the Virtues to accept her. They welcome her with robes of immortality. Elaine Kaplinsky Act IV The Devil makes a last effort to win the Soul, but she rejects him. The Virtues bind the Devil and cast him into the abyss where he taunts Chastity. Led by Victory, the Virtues celebrate their triumph over confusion. Grethe Barrett Holby, Director Franco Colavecchia & Paula Sjoblom, Set Design; Melissa Bruning, Costume Design; Allan Abrams, Lighting Design; Halie Mourabito, Hair & Make-up; Margo Manhattan, Jewelry; Manu Corazzini, Audio Engineer; Glenn Reed, Technical Director; W. Wilson Jones, Stage Manager; Hillary Jackson & Geren Raywood, ASM; Paul Coffey, ASM/Tape Cueing. Hildegard's morality play relates the dramatic struggle between a Soul, the Devil, and a host of allegorical Virtues. The cast calls for 20 female singing roles (the Soul and Virtues), a few male singing roles, and the non-singing role of the Devil. The four Women composer/singers - Lisa Bielawa, Kitty Brazelton, Eve Beglarian and Elaine Kaplinsky - each adapt a section of Hildegard's work in their own unique style, resulting in four distinct high-tech soundtracks that support their live voices. Originally the piece was presumably performed by the nuns in Hildegard's convent, and appears to be the oldest surviving Westem work of what may be called musical theater or opera. Hildegurls Electric Ordo Virtuturn was developed in a workshop at American Opera Projects, received its world premiere at Lincoln Center Festival 98, . and is a co-production of American Opera Projects and Lincoln Center Festival. Eve Beglarian is a composer, performer, and audio producer whose work has been performed in the U.S., Europe, Mexico, South America, Asia, and the Baltic States. Past collaborations include Chen Shi-Zheng (with the China National Beijing Opera Theater) and Terry O'Reilly (with Mabou Mines). She is a member of the performing duo twisted tutu, with keyboard player Kathleen Supove, which blends high technology with theater. Upcoming projects include Forgiveness, a collaboration with Chen Shi-Zheng, Queer Patterns, a twisted tutu musical theater piece to be presented by Dance Theater Workshop, and Open Secrets, a collaboration with Grethe Barrett Holby and architect Malcolm Holzman, to be performed at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Lisa Bielawa's compositions include concert works for orchestra, chorus, and solo voices, and music theater pieces and opera with playwright Erik Ehn. Recent works have evolved out of research into the writings of William Blake, Gertrude Stein, and the Berlin Dadaists. She is the co-producer of the Music at the Anthology concert series in New York, which commissions and premieres works by young composers, and has performed internationally with the Philip Glass Ensemble. Kitty Brazelton composer, improviser and leader of the rock nonet Dadadah (Knitting Factory's Texaco Jazz Fest 98 and of the punk-digital trio What Is It Like To Be A Bat? She received her doctorate in composition from Columbia University in 1994, and has drawn on everything from plainchant to funk ostinati since founding the band Musica Orbis in the 1970's. She has written for such pop artists as Terrence Trent D'Arby, Joan Jett and Madonna. She teaches at NYU and Columbia University, and is BMI composer-in-residence at LaGuardia High School of Music and Art. Elaine Kaplinsky is an active composer and performer on synthesizer and piano in Manhattan's downtown music scene. Recent projects include the electronic improvisational trio Trousers, her acoustic, jazz-influenced Kaplinsky Quartet, and a Berlin-New York collaboration, Koan Pool. Her works have been performed throughout the United States and Europe, where she regularly tours as a composer and performer. ComposersColiaborative presented her work for piano and digital delay last month at HERE, commissioned and performed by pianist Kathleen Supove. Grethe Barrett Holby has directed and/or choreographed for La Scala, The Kennedy Center, Houston Grand Opera, Washington Opera, and Wolftrap Opera, among others. Her production of Faust was broadcast on PBS. Ms. Holby directed the world premiere of Persichetti's The Sibyl, the American premiere of Werle's Animalen, and choreographed the world premiere of Bernstein's Trouble in Tahifi and A Quiet Place. Upcoming projects include Ken Valitsky/Kathy Acker's Requiem, and Open Secrets (in collaboration with Eve Beglarian) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. American Opera Projects (Grethe Barrett Holby, Founder/Artistic Director, Charles Jarden, Managing Director) is com- mitted to the creation, development and presentation of new American opera and music theater. Founded in 1988, AOP provides a stable environment and artistic resources where established and emerging creators can develop their works. Projects are guided from conception and further developed by AOP and other producing organizations. Recent projects include Cigarettes & Chocolate, a new play with music by Anthony Minghella (screenwriter/director of The English Patient) which toured to Berlin and Vienna after a NY premiere; AOP and Lincoln Center Festival 98 co-presented the world premiere performances of the folk opera Patience & Sarah, a love story about two pioneering women in the 1800's who settle in upstate New York. Lincoln Center Festival. In 1996, Lincoln Center initiated an annual three-week summer performing arts festival fea- turing music, dance, theater, opera and video from around the world and around the comer. The Lincoln Center Festival has established a broad artistic profile, presenting artists from Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe and throu- out the United States using approximately ten different venues in and around Lincoln Center. The annual activities which take place each July include over 100 performances, symposia and ancillary events. In its first three years, the Lincoln Center Festival has presented 17 world premieres, 27 United States premieres, 6 New York premieres, 4 U.S. debuts and 7 New York debuts. Lincoln Center Festival 99 will take place July 6 to July 25, 1999. New Sounds Live with John Schaefer - John Schaefer has been Musical Director at WNYC since 1991. He has host- ed and produced the nationally syndicated radio series New Sounds since 1982. This program, which has also includ- ed a successful and popular annual series of live broadcast concerts since 1986, is devoted to many types of new, unusual, uncategorizable, and overlooked forms of music, and has been heard via National Public Radio in the US and Puerto Rico, via the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Australia, and via Taipei Public Radio in Taiwan. Schaefer's program was called "The #1 radio show for the Global Village" by Billboard magazine. In addition to being music director for WNYC, Schaefer has written extensively about music, including the book New Sounds: A Listener's Guide to New Music (Harper & Row, NY 1987; Virgin Books, London, 1990; recently translated into Chinese and Japanese) and a biography of composer La Monte Young, Sound and Light (Bucknell University Press, 1996.) He was contributing editor for SPIN and Ear magazines, and has written numerous articles and reviews. His liner notes appear on more than 50 recordings, ranging from The Music of Cambodia to Venice Music, from Terry Riley's In C to Bobby McFerrin's Paper Music. SUPPORT FOR NEW SOUNDS LIVE COMES FROM THE KAPLAN FOUNDATION
- Description
- Electric Ordo Virtutum, by Saint Hildegard, Lisa Bielawa, Kitty Brazelton, Eve Beglarian, and Elaine Kaplinsky.
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- Performance
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Performer: Hildegurls (Musical group)
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WNYC-FM
Identifier: 64362.1 (WNYC Media Archive MDB)
Format: DAT
Generation: Original
Duration: 00:00:00
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WNYC-FM
Identifier: 64362.2 (WNYC Media Archive MDB)
Format: audio/vnd.wave
Generation: Master
Duration: 00:00:00
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- Chicago: “WNYC; New Sounds Live; Hildegurls Electric Ordo Virtutum,” WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed December 15, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-515mm7x9.
- MLA: “WNYC; New Sounds Live; Hildegurls Electric Ordo Virtutum.” WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. December 15, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-515mm7x9>.
- APA: WNYC; New Sounds Live; Hildegurls Electric Ordo Virtutum. Boston, MA: WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-515mm7x9