Yellow Barn Concert

50 years ago this night, the first Yellow Barn musicians watched the first moon landing together.

Harrison Birtwistle (b.1934) Crescent Moon over the Irrational (2010)
Rosie Gallagher, flute; Yasmina Spiegelberg, clarinet; Noël Wan, harp; Anthony Marwood, SoYoung Choi, violins; Maria Lambros, viola; John Myerscough, cello

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) Dreimal sieben Gedichte aus Albert Giraud’s “Pierrot Lunaire,” Op.21 (Three Times Seven Poems from Albert Giraud’s “Pierrot Lunaire”) (1912)
Lucy Shelton, voice; Rosie Gallagher, flute/piccolo; Yasmina Spiegelberg, clarinet/bass clarinet; Mélanie Clapiès, violin/viola; Jean-Michel Fonteneau, cello; Seth Knopp, piano

Intermission

IL MONDO DELLA LUNA
Libretto by Carlo Goldoni
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) Act II: Ecco qui buonafede nel mondo della luna (Here is good faith in the world of the moon) (1777)
Lucy Shelton, soprano; Benjamin Butterfield, tenor; William Sharp, baritone; Jean-Michel Fonteneau, Stephen Coxe, continuo
Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785) Act II: A quelle luci amate (To those beloved lights) (1750)
Benjamin Butterfield, tenor; Magdalena Filipczak, Claire Bourg, violins; Roger Tapping, viola; Jean-Michel Fonteneau, Stephen Coxe, continuo

George Crumb (b.1929) Makrokosmos II (1973)
Sophiko Simsive, Pedro Borges, Alice Chenyang Xu, Emely Phelps, Marisa Gupta, Seth Knopp, piano

The Beatles/Stephen Coxe (b.1966) Across the Universe (2013, rev.2019)
William Sharp, baritone; Alice Chenyang Xu, piano