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The wildest and most open of his operas, New Year is an extraordinarily youthful conception for a composer in his mid-eighties, a work that spins his lyrical ecstasy and rhythmic vitality into a new world on the point of disintegration. Unlike its four predecessors, all of which had been written for the Royal Opera House, this one was composed for Houston Grand Opera, a relocation that encouraged Tippett to veer from opera to musical, even
rock musical, giving space to pop song, spoken dialogue, joke and, above all, dance—the communal movement of bodies that would, as in The Midsummer
Marriage but now within a much looser framework, with music say what words could not. Jo Ann and Donny—young woman and young
man, white and black, both orphans—cannot join the dance, isolated as they are inside their personal fears and fantasies. And the dance itself is imperilled by social unease in this city that is ‘Somewhere and Today’.
To it come visitors from ‘Nowhere and Tomorrow’: the captain (Regan), pilot (Pelegrin) and computer wizard (Merlin) of a space vessel—though these
science-fiction characters turn out to be ritual agents (and to have human problems of their own). Donny undergoes a magical transformation; Jo Ann, through love, gains the courage to leave the room in which she has been hiding.
(Paul Griffiths)
Orchestral Cast
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Content
I The Space Ship Lands (tape)
II Prelude
III The Shaman Dance
IV The Hunt for the Scapegoat
V Donny's Skarade
VI Donny's Dream
VII Dream Interlude (includes taped voices)
VIII Jo Ann's Dreamsong
IX Love Scene for Jo Ann and Pelegrin
X Paradise Dance
XI The Beating-Out of the Scapegoat (the Bad Old Year)
XII Ringing in the New Year
XIII The Space Ship takes off again (tape)
II Prelude
III The Shaman Dance
IV The Hunt for the Scapegoat
V Donny's Skarade
VI Donny's Dream
VII Dream Interlude (includes taped voices)
VIII Jo Ann's Dreamsong
IX Love Scene for Jo Ann and Pelegrin
X Paradise Dance
XI The Beating-Out of the Scapegoat (the Bad Old Year)
XII Ringing in the New Year
XIII The Space Ship takes off again (tape)
More Information
Title:
New Year Suite
for orchestra
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
1989
Duration:
30 ′
World Premiere:
January 10, 1990 · San Francisco, CA (USA)
Flint Centre
Conductor: Muhai Tang · San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Flint Centre
Conductor: Muhai Tang · San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Commissioned work :
Commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony in honour of Herbert Blomstedt through the generosity of Mrs Paul L. Wattis
Series:
Technical Details
Product number:
LSL 4024-02
Performances
New Year Suite
Ballett "Orlando"
Conductor: Marius Burkert
Orchestra: Oper Graz Orchestra
December 20, 2023 |
Graz (Austria) , Opernhaus Hauptbühne
New Year Suite
Ballett "Orlando"
Conductor: Marius Burkert
Orchestra: Oper Graz Orchestra
December 9, 2023 |
Graz (Austria) , Opernhaus Hauptbühne
New Year Suite
Ballett "Orlando"
Conductor: Marius Burkert
Orchestra: Oper Graz Orchestra
December 1, 2023 |
Graz (Austria) , Opernhaus Hauptbühne
New Year Suite
Ballett "Orlando"
Conductor: Marius Burkert
Orchestra: Oper Graz Orchestra
November 17, 2023 |
Graz (Austria) , Opernhaus Hauptbühne
New Year Suite
Ballett "Orlando"
Conductor: Marius Burkert
Orchestra: Oper Graz Orchestra
November 11, 2023 |
Graz (Austria) , Opernhaus Hauptbühne
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