10-11 Season
NUMBERS AND DATES
January 21, 2011 at 8pm | Metro Gallery, 1700 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21201
RWO opens for We Used To Be Family, Ryat, and The Great Tap Root. Starts at 8pm sharp!
January 22, 2011 at 8pm | PLEASE NOTE NEW VENUE!
Danger! Danger! Gallery at 5013 Baltimore Ave, Philadelphia, PA
RWO opens for We Used To Be Family, Ryat, and others.
- THOM LIMBERT Numbers And Dates (2009-10, commissioned by RWO)
- JASON REED juniper frag, complete (2010, premiere, commissioned by RWO)
- KATHLEEN BADER Leads (2010, premiere, commissioned by RWO)
- arr. RUBY FULTON and GEORGE LAM Sun Cycle: A Mixtape of Love, Loss and Loneliness
CRIMINAL INTENT
Featuring the West End String Quartet
Orphée Redux and Someone Anyone directed by Elspeth Davis
Friday, June 17 at 7pm | Café Orwell
247 Varet St, Brooklyn, NY 11206
Saturday, June 18 at 6pm | Windup Space
12 W North Ave, Baltimore, MD 21201
*A party for Friends of RWO after the show!*
Friday, June 24 at 7:30pm | Real Art Ways
56 Arbor St, Hartford, CT 06106
Saturday, June 25 at 2pm | Yes!Oui!Si! Space
19 Vancouver St, Boston, MA 02115
- RYAN JESPERSON Orphée Redux
- MARTIN ZIMMERMAN and GEORGE LAM Someone Anyone
- DAVID SMOOKE Criminal Element (2011, premiere, commissioned by RWO)
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Baltimore composer David Smooke’s Criminal Element, composed for Rhymes With Opera and the West End String Quartet, is an experimental journey through the mind of the French rogue trader Jerome Kerviel, who nearly brought down the entire European financial system in 2008. The composer describes the new nonopera composed in a fabricated language as “exploring the possibilities of sound in order to consider issues of class and how minor errors can lead to dire consequences.”
In addition to the new work by Smooke, Rhymes With Opera and the West End String Quartet will perform short operas by composers George Lam (Boston) and Ryan Jesperson (Hartford). Lam’s thrilling mystery Someone Anyone holds us breathless as we follow a prostitute held hostage by her client, and Jesperson’s Orphée Redux beautifully re-imagines the Orpheus myth in 1980s New York. In addition, the West End String quartet will perform an opening set including works by Kyle Gann, Alfred Schnittke and Ruby Fulton.
ARTSCAPE 2011
Saturday, July 16, 6-7pm | Corpus Christi Church
110 W Lafayette Ave, Baltimore, MD
- KETAMYTH music by Ruby Fulton, words by Baynard Woods
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