10, 11, 12 Feb 2012 performing as The Devil in Histoire du Soldat w/Le Train Bleu and Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, New York, NY
Corey Dargel has been cast as The Devil in Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale.
Lar Lubovitch Dance Company presents
Histoire du Soldat and Crisis Variations
with live music by Le Train Bleu conducted by Ransom Wilson
Limited engagement – 3 nights only!
Friday Feb 10 @ 8pm (with opening celebration)
Saturday Feb 11 @ 8pm
Sunday Feb 12 @ 7pm
PERFORMANCE-ONLY tickets are available for all 3 performances, including Opening Night: Tickets @ $45 plus $3 surcharge for phone & walk-up or $2 for internet. (Limited number of discounted seats for students/seniors @ $15 plus $3 surcharge for phone & walk-up or $2 for internet.) Click here for PERFORMANCE-ONLY tickets OR call 212.787.1178.
Histoire du Soldat. Lar Lubovitch Dance Company and the music ensemble Le Train Bleu, conducted by Ransom Wilson, have joined forces to revive their highly acclaimed production of Igor Stravinsky’s Histoire du Soldat at Manhattan Movement & Arts Center, Fri-Sun, Feb 10-12, 2012, for 3 performances only. This riveting interpretation of Stravinsky’s 1918 work for theater had its debut as a one-night-only event at Galapagos Arts Space last March, earning rave reviews. Channel 13/WNET called it “one of those only-in-New-York performances that restores one’s faith in humanity,” while The New York Times called the production “riveting.” This year’s revival features (as Narrator) special guest artist Marni Nixon, the American soprano famous for her key roles in iconic movie musicals, as well as for her concerts with major symphony orchestras around the world and her work on Broadway. Her movie credits include the on- screen voice singing on behalf of Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Deborah Kerr in The King & I, Natalie Wood in West Side Story, and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady.
Crisis Variations. The program also includes the Lubovitch company’s latest dance, Crisis Variations, with Le Train Bleu once again providing live accompaniment of the work’s commissioned score by Yevgeniy Sharlat. The much-praised choreography for Crisis Variations has just been nominated for the prestigious 2012 Prix Benois de la Danse (to be awarded at Moscow’s renowned Bolshoi Theater).
For more info on this event and the artists involved, please visit www.lubovitch.org.
20 April 2012 world premiere of MORE LAST WORDS FROM TEXAS for voice and chamber orchestra with Le Train Bleu in Brooklyn, NY
The world premiere of More Last Words from Texas for voice and chamber orchestra, performed by Corey Dargel and the ensemble Le Train Bleu. Also on the program is Coming Together and Attica by Frederic Rzewski, both of which will be performed by Dargel and Le Train Blue.
Friday April 20, 2012 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main St, Brooklyn, NY (map)
Jacob TV- Grab It!
Dutch ‘avant pop’ composer JacobTV (Jacob Ter Veldhuis b.1951) started as a rock musician and studied composition and electronic music at the Groningen Conservatory, where he was awarded the Composition Prize of the Netherlands in 1980. He became a full time composer and soon made a name for himself with melodious compositions, straight from the heart and with great effect. ‘I pepper my music with sugar,’ he says. Long queues at the box office of the four-day Jacob TV Festival in Rotterdam in 2001 already attested to his growing popularity. Grab It! is a rousing work for tenor saxophone and boombox. Our own Patrick Posey will perform this piece, a great personal favorite of his.
Corey Dargel- More Last Words from Texas Sung by Corey Dargel
Corey Dargel (b. 1977) is a Texas-born, Brooklyn-based composer, writer, and singer whose gentle assault on pop and classical idioms creates a tension that pervades his music. According to the New York Times, “Mr. Dargel [is] one of the more original and consistently provocative artists pushing at the margins of modern classical music and adventurous pop.” The New Yorker magazine calls him “a baroquely unclassifiable” composer of “ingenious nouveau art songs.” Corey’s 2011 EP, Last Words From Texas, is a poignant setting of final statements from condemned Death Row inmates in the state of Texas. We are excited to announce that he will compose More Last Words from Texas specifically for this concert!
Frederic Rzewski- Coming Together and Attica Spoken and sung by Corey Dargel
Rzewski (pronounced zheff-skee) has become, over the past several decades, one of the leading figures in the “minimalist” school of composition. Many of Rzewski’s works are inspired by secular and socio-historical themes, show a deep political conscience and feature improvisational elements. Coming Together (1971) is a setting of letters from Sam Melville, an inmate at Attica State Prison, at the time of the famous riots there )
Michael Gordon- Yo Shakespeare
Michael Gordon’s music is an outgrowth of his experience with underground rock bands in New York City and his formal training in composition at Yale where he studied with Martin Bresnick. Tuneful, rhythmic and raw, Gordon has embraced elements of dissonance, minimalism, modality and popular culture in what has been considered by some people as a bold and direct sound. He is one of the founders of the Bang on A Can Festival. His Yo Shakespeare is a masterpiece of hard-driving rhythms and urban textures.
Past Performances
01/21/2012 at 7:30pm
Wertheim Performing Arts Center
FIU School of Music
11200 SW 8 St., Miami, FL
As part of Wil Smith‘s recital of 21st Century Music for Pipe Organ, Corey sang in the premiere of his new work for voice and pipe organ, False Comfort. This was part of the New Music Miami festival.
01/20/2012 at 8pm
GAB Gallery
105 Northwest 23rd Street, Miami, FL
Corey performs songs from Last Words from Texas, Removable Parts, and Sexual Side Effects as part of Miami’s 12 NIGHTS concert series, accompanied by Wil Smith on keyboards.
01/09/2012 at 9pm
Zebulon Café,
258 Wythe Ave. Brooklyn, NY
Corey sings in an improvised set with Brian Chase (of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and Rob Reich (of Tin Hat and Gaucho), opening for Herculaneum and Tomas Fujiwara.
01/07/2012 at 10pm
Public Assembly
70 North 6th St., Brooklyn, NY
Part of the American Realness Festival, Corey performs a short set of songs on AMERICAN PUSSY FAGGOT! REALNESS. a performance-laden club night with two stages showcasing over twenty artists from the often-disparate worlds of dance, burlesque, cabaret, club and contemporary performance.
12/09/2011 at 8pm
South Oxford Space, 138 South Oxford St., Brooklyn
TWO SIDES SOUNDING, CONTEMPORARY MUSIC VOICE AND PIANO DUO presents “A CONEY ISLAND OF THE MIND: SONGS OF THE BOARDWALK” Featuring the world premieres of “The Sirens, or Pleasure” by Eve Beglarian, “Coney Run” by Gilda Lyons and “Rapid Transit” by Eric Moe, and works by Corey Dargel, Daniel Felsenfeld, Christopher Gable and Gabriel Kahane
11/09/2011 and 11/10/2011 at 8pm both nights
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Center, the historic Hamm Building, St. Paul, MN
Tickets $22/$18
Wednesday, November 9, at 8:00 pm sharp and Thursday, November 10, at 8:00 pm sharp
The Walker Art Center, in cooperation with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and Kate Nordstrum Projects, presents Corey Dargel: Song Cycles
Brooklyn-based composer/writer/singer Corey Dargel’s wry and witty assault on both pop and classical idioms employs deadpan vocals, awkward rhythms, and fragile harmonies to reveal heartbreaking intimacies. Join us for a two-part evening that features songs from Dargel’s art-pop song cycles Every Day Is the Same Day and Thirteen Near-Death Experiences. He’ll be joined by violinist Todd Reynolds and the Twin Cities’ own Ensemble 61 for a brilliantly lyrical series of songs that flit gracefully between (more…)
