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Mark Morris Dance Group : with the MMDG Music Ensemble and Trinity Choir

Title: Mark Morris Dance Group : with the MMDG Music Ensemble and Trinity Choir / choreography by Mark Morris ; presented by Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Publication: 2012.

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Description

1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.

Uniform Title

Four saints in three acts (Choreographic work : Morris)
Choral Fantasy (Choreographic work : Morris)

Alternative Title

BAM 2012 Winter/Spring
Four Saints in Three Acts
Choral Fantasy

Genre/Form

Dance.
Video.
Filmed dance.
Filmed performances.

Note

This performance was recorded for the Brooklyn Academy of Music Hamm Archives.
Widescreen.
Title from opening video credits and house program.

Access (note)

Permission required.

Credits (note)

Camera operated by Ben Cohen (Manager of Video and Media Production).

Source (note)

Brooklyn Academy of Music

Biography (note)

Four Saints in Three Acts premiered on June 28, 2000 at the London Coliseum, London, England.

Contents

Four Saints in Three Acts (60 min.) / music by Virgil Thomson ; libretto by Gertrude Stein ; set design by Maira Kalman ; costume design by Elizabeth Kurtzman ; lighting design by Michael Chybowski ; singers, Yulia Van Doren (St. Teresa I), Laura Mercado-Wright (St. Teresa II), CLarissa Lyons (St. Settlement), Michael Kelly (St. Ignatius), Zachary Finkelstein (St. Chavez/St. Stephen), Timothy McDevitt (St. Plan), Danya Katok (Commère), Douglas Williams (Commère) ; dancers, Michelle Yard (replaced by Rita Donahue) (St. Teresa), Samuel Black (St. Ignatius) ; Chelsea Lynn Acree, Rita Donahue (replaced by Jenn Weddel), Lesley Garrison, Brial Lawson, Aaron Loux, Laurel Lynch, Dallas McMurray, Amber Star Merkens, Maile Okamura, Spencer Ramirez, William Smith III, Noah Vinson (Assorted Saints).
A Choral Fantasy (World Premiere) (22 min.) / music by Ludwig van Beethoven (Fantasia in C Minor for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra, Op. 80) ; costume design by Isaac Mizrahi ; lighting design by Michael Chybowski ; singers, Yulia van Doren (soprano), Clarissa Lyons (soprano), Laura Mercado-Wright (mezzo-soprano), Zachary Finkelstein (tenor), James Kennerley (tenor), Timothy McDevitt (baritone) ; piano, Colin Fowler ; dancers, Chelsea Lynn Acree, Samuel Black, Rita Donahue, Lesley Garrison, Brian Lawson, Aaron Loux, Laurel Lynch, Dallas McMurray, Amber Star Merkens, Maile Okamura, Spencer Ramirez, William Smith III, Noah Vinson, Jenn Weddel, Michelle Yard (replaced by Domingo Estrada Jr. and Stacy Martorana).

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-8068

OCLC

908578742

Title

Mark Morris Dance Group : with the MMDG Music Ensemble and Trinity Choir / choreography by Mark Morris ; presented by Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Production

2012.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

video

Type of Carrier

videodisc

Restricted Access

Permission required.

Performer

Performed by Mark Morris Dance Group (artistic director, Mark Morris): Chelsea Lynn Acree, Samuel Black, Rita Donahue, Domingo Estrada, Jr., Lesley Garrison, Lauren Grant, John Heginbotham, Brian Lawson, Aaron Loux, Laurel Lynch, Stacy Martorana, Dallas McMurray, Amber Star Merkens, Maile Okamura, Spencer Ramirez, William Smith III, Noah Vinson, Jenn Weddel, Michelle Yard.

Music performed by MMDG Music Ensemble (conductor, Stefan Asbury) and Trinity Choir with Yulia Van Doren (soprano), Clarissa Lyons (soprano), Danya Katok (soprano), Laura Mercado-Wright (mezzo-soprano), Zachary Finklestein (tenor), James Kennerley (tenor), Michael Kelly (baritone), Timothy McDevitt (baritone), Douglas Williams (baritone).

Credits

Camera operated by Ben Cohen (Manager of Video and Media Production).

Event

Videotaped in performance at BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, Brooklyn, N.Y., as part of the BAM 2012 Winter/Spring season on 2012 March 3.

Biography

Four Saints in Three Acts premiered on June 28, 2000 at the London Coliseum, London, England.

Source

Gift; Brooklyn Academy of Music, 2015.

Added Author

Morris, Mark, 1956- choreographer.

Morris, Mark, 1956- artistic director.

Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Four saints in three acts.

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Fantasien, piano, mixed voices, orchestra, op. 80, C minor.

Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946, librettist.

Kalman, Maira, set design.

Kurtzman, Elizabeth, costume designer.

Chybowski, Michael, lighting designer.

Mizrahi, Isaac, costume designer.

Fowler, Colin, 1981- performer.

Asbury, Stefan, conductor.

Van Doren, Yulia, performer.

Lyons, Clarissa, performer.

Mercado-Wright, Laura, performer.

Finkelstein, Zach, performer.

Kennerley, James, performer.

McDevitt, Timothy, performer.

Kelly, Michael, performer.

Katok, Danya, performer.

Williams, Douglas, 1982- performer.

Acree, Chelsea Lynn, dancer.

Black, Sam (Dancer), dancer.

Donahue, Rita, dancer.

Estrada, Domingo, dancer.

Garrison, Lesley, dancer.

Lawson, Brian (Dancer), dancer.

Loux, Aaron, dancer.

Lynch, Laurel, dancer.

Martorana, Stacy, dancer.

McMurray, Dallas, dancer.

Merkens, Amber, dancer.

Okamura, Maile, dancer.

Ramirez, Spencer, dancer.

Smith, William, dancer.

Vinson, Noah, dancer.

Weddel, Jenn, dancer.

Cohen, Ben, videographer.

Mark Morris Dance Group, performer.

Trinity Church (New York, N.Y.). Choir, performer.

Brooklyn Academy of Music, presenter.

Brooklyn Academy of Music, donor.

Added Title

Container of (work): Four saints in three acts (Choreographic work : Morris)

Container of (work): Choral Fantasy (Choreographic work : Morris)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-8068

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