September 27, NYC, MATA Benefit Concert
Monday, September 27th 6:30 pm
Chelsea Art Museum
556 W 22nd Street, New York, NY
a MATA benefit event honoring
Vivian Perlis & Frances Richard
With Special Performances by
Gabriel Kahane
JACK Quartet
Corey Dargel (with Kathleen Supové & Courtney Orlando)
and a one-of-a-kind Silent Auction featuring
signed CDs, scores, special concert ticket offers,
original artwork and much more!
October 6, 2010, Baltimore, MD, Mobtown Modern Series
Part of the Contemporary Museum’s Mobtown Modern music series of Baltimore, MD.
The thoughts, actions, and idiosyncracies of “wannabe amputees” supply the material for Corey Dargel’s Removable Parts. With pianist Kathleen Supové, Dargel will perform selections from his award-winning musical theatre piece Removable Parts and will be joined by violinist and Peabody faculty member Courtney Orlando in excerpts from Every Day is The Same Day, a song cycle that presents worst-case scenarios as the only possible alternatives to boredom and loneliness.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010, 8 p.m.
The Windup Space | 12 W North Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21218 | Click for directions
Tickets: $10 general admission and $5 for Contemporary Museum members and students with a valid ID
Visit Mobtown Modern’s site for more information.
October 14-30, Brooklyn, NY, performing with Laboratory Theater’s GIT ALONG LIL DOGGIES at The Brick Theater
October 14 – 30, 2010
Laboratory Theater presents
GIT ALONG LIL DOGGIES
@ The Brick, 575 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
“Brokeback Mountain” meets “Naked Lunch” in Laboratory Theater‘s newest work, a cowboy dance-drama about the spiritual imprint of the windswept landscape of the American west. In an impressionistic narrative inspired by the work of William S. Burroughs and Annie Proulx, two outlaws conjure the violent forces of nature through sex-magic to take revenge on an old adversary. Commingling elements of country-western line dance and gay pornography, the performance unfolds against a projected video landscape of repainted Marlboro cigarette TV commercials and within an immersive soundscape incorporating contemporary new age music for pedal steel guitar.
Directed by Yvan Greenberg. Performed by Corey Dargel, Sheila Donovan, Oleg Dubson, and Wil Smith.
November 12, Brooklyn, NY, Vital Vox Festival
VITAL VOX: A VOCAL FESTIVAL explores the myriad power of the human voice in its solo and ensemble forms across a multitude of genres. This three day festival November 11, 12, and 13, 2010 at the ISSUE Project Room, will celebrate composer-performers in the vocal arts who stretch and expand the voice in new and original ways, continuing a strong contemporary tradition developed in the US.
Corey will perform on the November 12th concert, sharing the bill with composers/vocalists Samita Sinha, C Spencer Yeh, and Joan La Barbara:
Composer and singer/songwriter Corey Dargel will present the first incarnation of “Hold Yourself Together,” a collection of songs about composure — why we lose it, how we regain it, and for whom we keep it. The songs take a quizzical approach to the commonly held belief that we should “compose ourselves” when confronted with exciting or devastating situations. “Hold Yourself Together” will be performed by Dargel (vocals) with James Moore (guitars), and Wil Smith (synthesizers).
More 2010-2011 Season Events Coming Soon
Stay tuned.
Past Performances
07/09/2010 at 8pm (sharp) at Galapagos Art Space
American Opera Projects and Opera on Tap return to Galapagos Art Space for the ongoing series Opera Grows in Brooklyn which brings the best of contemporary opera to one of Brooklyn’s most innovative art venues.
The July 9th installment features a performance of songs from Removable Parts performed by Corey Dargel and Kathleen Supové. Here’s the concert program:
Brooklyn Poets – Past and Present featuring The Calamus Songs and Songs from the F Train
150 years ago, “The Calamus Poems” by Brooklyn’s poet-father Walt Whitman were first published. Less than 150 days ago, poems by three local Brooklyn boys were written in a grade-school poetry workshop. American Opera Projects and the Walt Whitman Project present these poems by Brooklynites past and present as new songs written by composers Daniel Felsenfeld, Andrew Staniland, and Gilda Lyons. Performed by Adrienne Danrich and Nicole Mitchell. Kelly Horsted, piano. Hamilton Berry, cello. Produced by American Opera Projects.
Removable Parts
Composer and singer/songwriter Corey Dargel and pianist Kathleen Supové will perform songs from Dargel’s Removable Parts, a music-theater piece about love and voluntary amputation. Dargel based his original lyrics on documented case-studies of wannabe-amputees. His characters’ idiosyncratic behaviors and strange desires are gradually subsumed into larger issues of disconnection and longing. As they sing their songs, you may be surprised to find your heart breaking for them. The New York Times theater and dance critic, Claudia LaRocco, calls Removable Parts ”almost perversely pleasurable… Amputation, especially when it’s self-imposed, is a loaded and problematic metaphor. Mr. Dargel and company handle it with an intelligent grace that is as moving as it is impressive.”
Removable Parts comprises the second CD of Dargel’s newly released and critically acclaimed double-CD album, Someone Will Take Care of Me. Removable Parts won the New York Innovative Theatre Award for Best Performance-Art Production and was nominated for Best Solo Performer (Corey Dargel) and Best Director (Emma Griffin). It was the subject of a “Critics Notebook” profile by Alex Ross inThe New Yorker magazine.
The Bloody Chamber
Opera on Tap will produce scenes from composer Daniel Felsenfeld’s The Bloody Chamber, a feminist retelling of Bluebeard. The Bloody Chamber is an adaptation of the 1979 novella by Angela Carter, set in decadent fin de siècle France. The obsessed and murderous Marquis has married Dora, a young soprano, and spirited her away to his castle in Brittany. Over the course of the darkly humorous piece, Dora transforms from ingénue to infamously disobedient wife — egged on by a ghostly chorus of her slaughtered predecessors. Librettist: Elizabeth Isadora Gold. Composer: Daniel Felsenfeld. Starring Indre Viskontas (pictured), Ross Benoliel, and Amanda Villegas with musical direction by Jennifer Peterson of operamission and stage direction by Sarah Stern of The Vineyard Theatre.
“Commited as strongly to freshness as to intelligibility, Daniel Felsenfeld composes music that’s strong, unusual, intelligent, and considerably skilled.” – Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Composer John Corigliano
05/21/2010 at 8pm (sharp) at Galapagos Art Space
in Brooklyn, NY
Tix – $15
The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), David T. Little, and pianist Kathleen Supové join Corey in a performance of songs from Corey’s new album, Someone Will Take Care of Me.
Also performing is Craig Wedren (Shudder to Think) withACME.
Part of New Amsterdam Records’ Archipelago series:
