2023 Artists in Conversation Festival
She Loves You Back & American Patriots
location
Historic Alberta House
5131 NE 23rd Ave, Portland, OR
She Loves You Back is a collection of staged art songs exploring the role of Earth as mother — a feminine body that is exalted and exploited. The piece argues: what befalls a feminine body befalls the planet. She Loves You Back weaves contemporary and classical art songs into a narrative work. The program includes Ashi Day’s For Whom the Dog Tolls, Shruthi Rajasekar’s The Letter, Robert Schumann’s Frauenliebe und Leben, and two works by local composer Lisa Neher: excerpts from No One Saves the Earth from Us But Us and Sonnet at the Edge of the Reef. Created by Director Joellen Sweeney, performer Claire Robertson-Preis, and pianist Jesse Preis, She Loves You Back is presented as part of the Artists in Conversation Festival at 3:00 pm on Saturday November 18 and 7:00 pm Sunday November 19.
Dates
November 18th: 3pm — She Loves You Back, 7pm — American Patriots
November 19th: 3pm — American Patriots, 7pm — She Loves You Back
American Patriots is a new opera-theater production that explores what it means to be American from four different perspectives: Black American, Indigenous American, New American, and white Working-Class American. Working with interviews of Americans today, composers Regina Harris Baiocchi, Danielle Jagelski, Marc LeMay, and Yaniv Segal create a dynamic auditory experience that combines classical, jazz, musical theater, and unique styles in unexpected ways. These episodic interviews are transformed into a gripping and impactful musical narrative that reflect America’s polyphonic identity, performed by 3 vocalists and 8-piece ensemble. American Patriots takes an unflinching look at American identity and unconscious bias, fostering connection across experiences. American Patriots, created by Samantha Rose Williams, is presented as part of the Artists in Conversation Festival at 7:00 pm on Saturday November 18 and 3:00 pm on Sunday November 19.
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American Patriots
Creative Producer & Vocalist / Samantha Rose Williams
Vocalist / Annie Sherman
Vocalist / Robert Wesley Mason
Stage Director / Bill Barclay
Musical Artistic Director & Composer / Yaniv Segal
Pianist / Claire Forstman
Saxophone / Owen Broder
Oboe & English Horn / Kelly M. Gronli
Percussion / Eric Parchen
Guitar / Matthew Rowning
Bass / Ryan Messling
Trumpet / Aaron Kahn
Violin / Cecille Elliott
Producers / Abby Krawson, Elliot Menard, Maddy Ross and Cath Brittan
Composers / Regina Harris Baiocchi, Danielle Jagelski, Marc LeMay, and Yaniv Segal
She Loves You Back
Soprano / Emily Way
Mezzo-Soprano / Claire Robertson-Preis
Stage Director / Joellen Sweeney
Music Director & Pianist / Jesse Preis
Producers / Claire Robertson-Preis and Jesse Preis
Composers / Lisa Neher, Shruthi Rajasekar, Ashi Day, and Robert Schumann