Cipullo: After Life - Laitman: In Sleep the World is Yours / Music of Remembrance
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Cipullo: After Life - Laitman: In Sleep the World is Yours / Music of Remembrance

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Composer
CIPULLO LAITMAN
Artist
Cook, Orth, Pine, Chenovick, Music Of Remembrance, Miller
Format
CD
Discs
1
Label
Naxos
Released
Feb 12, 2016
Catalog #
8669036
UPC
730099903677

About

After Life, Tom Cipullo’s modern opera, investigates the role of art in a distressed world, and asks heavy questions about an artist’s obligation in confronting humanity in all of its good and bad parts. David Mason wrote the libretto for the work, which imagines a meeting between Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein as ghosts, who show their brilliance and flaws. In Sleep the World Is Yours, a song cycle by Lori Laitman, sets three lovely poems by Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, who sadly would perish in a Nazi camp at the young age of 18.

Reviews:

Cipullo weaves David Mason’s ingenious, rhapsodic libretto into an absorbing, often lively, occasionally desultory narrative told in words and music that is translucently scored and makes full use of the five-member ensemble’s colours, astonishingly vocal at times in their effect.

– Gramophone

The coupling of the two works makes perfect sense thematically and stylistically. Both are well worth hearing and well performed, very good examples of some of the significant tonal modern work being made right now in the US.

_Gapplegate Classical/Modern Music Review

Tracklist 11 tracks

  1. 1 Hey. He. Ah. Oh! Who? (Gertrude, Picasso) 07:38
    Track
    1
    Title
    Hey. He. Ah. Oh! Who? (Gertrude, Picasso)
    Duration
    07:38
    Composer
    Tom Cipullo
    Performer
    Catherine Cook, Robert Orth
    Ensemble
    Music of Remembrance
    Conductor
    Stilian Kirov
  2. 2 Fernande, have you brought me here? (Picasso, Gertrude) 04:40
    Track
    2
    Title
    Fernande, have you brought me here? (Picasso, Gertrude)
    Duration
    04:40
    Composer
    Tom Cipullo
    Performer
    Robert Orth, Catherine Cook
    Ensemble
    Music of Remembrance
    Conductor
    Stilian Kirov
  3. 3 But Picasso gave birth to himself (Picasso, Gertrude) 10:19
    Track
    3
    Title
    But Picasso gave birth to himself (Picasso, Gertrude)
    Duration
    10:19
    Composer
    Tom Cipullo
    Performer
    Robert Orth, Catherine Cook
    Ensemble
    Music of Remembrance
    Conductor
    Stilian Kirov
  4. 4 I resisted in my art (Picasso, Gertrude, Girl) 05:45
    Track
    4
    Title
    I resisted in my art (Picasso, Gertrude, Girl)
    Duration
    05:45
    Composer
    Tom Cipullo
    Performer
    Robert Orth, Catherine Cook, Ava Pine
    Ensemble
    Music of Remembrance
    Conductor
    Stilian Kirov
  5. 5 Miss Stein, I remember (Girl, Gertrude, Picasso) 05:46
    Track
    5
    Title
    Miss Stein, I remember (Girl, Gertrude, Picasso)
    Duration
    05:46
    Composer
    Tom Cipullo
    Performer
    Ava Pine, Catherine Cook, Robert Orth
    Ensemble
    Music of Remembrance
    Conductor
    Stilian Kirov
  6. 6 It wasn't the gas (Girl) 05:37
    Track
    6
    Title
    It wasn't the gas (Girl)
    Duration
    05:37
    Composer
    Tom Cipullo
    Performer
    Ava Pine
    Ensemble
    Music of Remembrance
    Conductor
    Stilian Kirov
  7. 7 So many died (Picasso, Gertrude, Girl) 07:31
    Track
    7
    Title
    So many died (Picasso, Gertrude, Girl)
    Duration
    07:31
    Composer
    Tom Cipullo
    Performer
    Robert Orth, Catherine Cook, Ava Pine
    Ensemble
    Music of Remembrance
    Conductor
    Stilian Kirov
  8. 8 Did I once have a name? (Girl) 02:24
    Track
    8
    Title
    Did I once have a name? (Girl)
    Duration
    02:24
    Composer
    Tom Cipullo
    Performer
    Ava Pine
    Ensemble
    Music of Remembrance
    Conductor
    Stilian Kirov
  9. 9 No. 1. Lullaby 05:30
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 1. Lullaby
    Duration
    05:30
    Composer
    Lori Laitman
    Performer
    Megan Chenovick, Ben Hausmann, Mina Miller
  10. 10 No. 2. Yes 05:38
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 2. Yes
    Duration
    05:38
    Composer
    Lori Laitman
    Performer
    Megan Chenovick, Ben Hausmann, Mina Miller
  11. 11 No. 3. Tragedy 06:07
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 3. Tragedy
    Duration
    06:07
    Composer
    Lori Laitman
    Performer
    Megan Chenovick, Ben Hausmann, Mina Miller