https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqAOUTdKV4pO-dVy_ubyd5cwGsrBfJy41Choral Chameleon presented a sold-out salon-style concert at ACME Studio in Williamsburg in May 2015. We wanted to find a fun and intimate, almost party-like space to present a program of all-secular, narrative music, and this delightful props warehouse and photo studio was perfect. The show combined the music with projected images, shadow puppetry and shadow-theatre (with the aid of stage director Liz Ostler) to enhance the storytelling. Vince Peterson built the program around an ‘ensalada’ by Mateo Flecha, a renaissance after-dinner piece, full of cheekiness and jousting puppets – we really wanted modern listeners to appreciate the original, entertaining context, so we made sure to provide surtitles. Other highlights included the world premiere of Rob Mosher’s ‘Adventures of Cow’, which is the first time we have commissioned a work incorporating a nonsense photo-story book as inspiration! Rob is a master of woodwinds and traverses effortlessly between jazz and classical flavors in his work. We also presented the world premiere of part two of Liz Hanna’s beautiful ‘The Story of the Jumping Mouse’ (not in this playlist, video to come in future) and a repeat performance of our commission from Angelica Negron ‘There Once Was’ for electronics inspied by Edward Lear’s nonsense poetry. As you’ll see, all this experimenting with visuals for the audience meant that Vince ended up conducting from the floor!
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