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Reverend Stormfield Goes to Heaven is an operetta in six scenes for seven vocalists and
flute, clarinet, horn, percussion, piano, violin, cello, and double bass. The work’s approximate length is 40 minutes. The libretto is written by the composer and based on the short story by Mark Twain titled “Captain Stormfield Goes to Heaven.” The short story features the typical biting sarcasm of Mark Twain. The libretto combines part of the original text with alterations to satirize modern day Christianity and religious values in general. The story follows Reverend Stormfield as she arrives in Heaven and quickly learns that the locations and people she expected to see and meet are shockingly different. The journey takes her through comical scenarios and deeper philosophical dilemmas, and in the end she is left to confront her own disturbing past.
The musical elements of the operetta include traditional and octatonic scales, twelve- tone rows and set theory based on the overriding intervallic relationship of the perfect fourth. The sets implemented as motivic ideas: 0-1-4-5, 0-1-6-7, and 0-2-5-7 are based on the perfect fourth and serve as the framework for many of the melodic ideas. The instruments provide an accompanimental role often incorporating melodic fragmentation and contrapuntal textures and techniques. Instrumental solos are featured prominently in arias and the instrumental interludes between scenes.
flute, clarinet, horn, percussion, piano, violin, cello, and double bass. The work’s approximate length is 40 minutes. The libretto is written by the composer and based on the short story by Mark Twain titled “Captain Stormfield Goes to Heaven.” The short story features the typical biting sarcasm of Mark Twain. The libretto combines part of the original text with alterations to satirize modern day Christianity and religious values in general. The story follows Reverend Stormfield as she arrives in Heaven and quickly learns that the locations and people she expected to see and meet are shockingly different. The journey takes her through comical scenarios and deeper philosophical dilemmas, and in the end she is left to confront her own disturbing past.
The musical elements of the operetta include traditional and octatonic scales, twelve- tone rows and set theory based on the overriding intervallic relationship of the perfect fourth. The sets implemented as motivic ideas: 0-1-4-5, 0-1-6-7, and 0-2-5-7 are based on the perfect fourth and serve as the framework for many of the melodic ideas. The instruments provide an accompanimental role often incorporating melodic fragmentation and contrapuntal textures and techniques. Instrumental solos are featured prominently in arias and the instrumental interludes between scenes.
ContributorsSakamoto, Dale Toshio (Author) / Rogers, Rodney (Thesis advisor) / Rockmaker, Jody (Committee member) / Suzuki, Kotoka (Committee member) / DeMars, James (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2019
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Light Emerging is a symphonic dance suite in five movements. The work’s approximate length is 25 minutes; it is scored for flute, oboe, clarinet in Bb, bassoon, horn in F, trumpet in C with loop pedal, trombone, percussion, electronic percussion, piano, strings, and fixed media. Each movement of the dance suite is written to be performed as a standalone piece or together as one multimovement work. The music showcases open quintal sonorities layered in conflicting substructures, which contract into denser brooding passages and transform into tonal fanfares.
Attempting to capture the essence of how humanity uniquely experiences light and assigns personification to it, the composer presents light and dark as the main characters in a grand ballet of good and evil. Prism (Movement I) is an overture that is constantly shifting and evolving. A rainbow of colors is presented by the various orchestra members, as timbral and pitch evolutions showcase the ever-changing perspectives of a prism held to light. Yin/Yang (Movement II) explores the relationship between light and dark. The solo clarinet represents light breaking through the darkness as its colorful flourishes pierce through the brooding fixed media. Sunrise (Movement III) captures the impressive majesty of light bursting over the dark horizon in the early morning. Lux (Movement IV) is a dance of light, using solo trumpet and a chorus of phantom trumpets. Light Eternal (Movement V) expresses the deep need for humans to worship that which is unknown and eternal, and the power of light to overcome the dark. The “March of Eternal Light” signals our end in this world and the journey to the beyond.
Attempting to capture the essence of how humanity uniquely experiences light and assigns personification to it, the composer presents light and dark as the main characters in a grand ballet of good and evil. Prism (Movement I) is an overture that is constantly shifting and evolving. A rainbow of colors is presented by the various orchestra members, as timbral and pitch evolutions showcase the ever-changing perspectives of a prism held to light. Yin/Yang (Movement II) explores the relationship between light and dark. The solo clarinet represents light breaking through the darkness as its colorful flourishes pierce through the brooding fixed media. Sunrise (Movement III) captures the impressive majesty of light bursting over the dark horizon in the early morning. Lux (Movement IV) is a dance of light, using solo trumpet and a chorus of phantom trumpets. Light Eternal (Movement V) expresses the deep need for humans to worship that which is unknown and eternal, and the power of light to overcome the dark. The “March of Eternal Light” signals our end in this world and the journey to the beyond.
ContributorsJohnson, Brice (Author) / Rogers, Rodney (Thesis advisor) / Rockmaker, Jody (Committee member) / Suzuki, Kotoka (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2019
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The ASU School of Dance presents Elina's LINEage, September 19-21, with works by Elina Mooney and Cliff Keuter, performed at Galvin Playhouse.
ContributorsAmmerman, Mark C. (Set designer) / Basting, Samantha (Dancer) / Benard, Jacqueline (Set designer, Costume designer) / Britt, Melissa (Dancer) / Canto, Melissa (Dancer) / Davis, Paul (Set designer, Costume designer) / Gonzales, Casey (Dancer) / Keuter, Cliff (Choreographer, Costume designer, Artist) / Lundell, Eva (Musician) / Martinez, Brandt (Dancer) / McDowell, John Herbert (Composer) / McGloin, Aaron (Dancer) / Mihaleva, Galina (Set designer, Costume designer) / Mooney, Elina (Choreographer, Dancer) / Naimark, Steven (Musician) / Nuber, Gregory (Dancer) / Radcliffe, Elisa (Dancer) / Rockmaker, Jody (Composer) / Teachout, Kim (Musician) / Herberger Institute School of Dance (Publisher)
Created2008
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The ASU School of Dance presents Lyric Reflections, November 15-18, with works by dance faculty, undergraduates, graduates, and visiting artists, performed at Galvin Playhouse Theatre.
ContributorsHergerber Institute School of Dance (Publisher) / Ammerman, Mark C. (Set designer) / Bernard, Jacqueline (Costume designer) / Britt, Melissa (Dancer) / Burnett, Cherie (Dancer) / DeBoer, Andrew (Musician) / Doherty, Kelley (Dancer) / Dostal, Michael (Lighting designer) / Fitzgerald, Mary (Choreographer) / Harriosn, Christina (Dancer) / Ingalls, Todd (Composer) / Kirwan, Molly (Dancer) / Kroon, Anjuli (Dancer) / Lee, Yeongwen (Dancer) / Limon, Jose (Choreographer) / Ma, Shouze (Choreographer, Dancer) / Malan-McDonald, Sara Jean (Dancer) / Manners, Robin (Dancer) / Manus, Nicole (Dancer) / Mapes, Aileen (Choreographer, Conductor, Dancer) / McHale, Samantha (Dancer) / Mihaleva, Galina (Costume designer, Set designer) / Mooney, Elina (Choreographer) / Mumford, Jessica (Dancer) / Norman, Katie (Musician) / Ouper, Jeffery (Composer) / Raymond, Kelley (Musician) / Rockmaker, Jody (Composer) / Schupp, Karen (Choreographer) / Shipley, Samantha (Dancer) / Spenceley, Jenni (Dancer) / Stein, Derek (Musician) / Sephens, Jr. Sanny (Dancer) / Tomlinson, Charles (Costume designer) / Tovson, Kristin (Dancer) / Trujillo, David (Dancer) / Vessey, Julia (Dancer) / Watt, Nina (Director) / Wernsman, David (Dancer) / Williams, LaShonda L. (Dancer) / Wooldridge, Holly (Dancer)
Created2007