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1 with Time Gallery FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2019, 8PM FLETCHER OPERA THEATER PROGRAM SPONSOR: Love_2-1-19Fri_8pm.indd 1 MEDIA SPONSOR: SPONSORED BY:

2 LOVE IN THE TIMES OF THE DAY Music: J. Mark Scearce Choreography: Robert Weiss Costumes: Kerri Martinsen Scenery and Projections: Jeff A.R. Jones Lighting: Ross Kolman (Dedicated to Patricia and Malcolm Brown, good friends of mine and also of Carolina Ballet.) Pianist: WILLIAM WOLFRAM I DAWN TAYLOR AYOTTE with LUKE POTGIETER II NOON SOPHIE NELSON with CHRISTIAN GUTIERREZ THE SUNFLOWERS SASKIA DE MUINCK KEIZER RACHEL ROBINSON DEIRDRE SCANLON JACQUELINE SCHILLER ANNE WRIGHT III DUSK LILY WILLS with MILES SOLLARS-WHITE Love_2-1-19Fri_8pm.indd 4

3 THE REVELERS KATHLEEN BLACK AYLA O DAY JENNY PALMER McKENZIE VAN OSS NICHOLAS FOKINE MAXMILIAN ISAACSON JAYSON PESCASIO BILAL SMITH IV NIGHT JAN BURKHARD THE MOON KIEFER CURTIS THE STARS SAM AINLEY KEENAN ENGLISH RAUM ARON GENS-OSTROWSKI CHRISTIAN GUTIERREZ INTERMISSION TIME GALLERY Music: Paul Moravec* Choreography: Robert Weiss Scenic Design: Jeff A. R. Jones Costume Design: Anne Porterfield Lighting Design: Ross Kolman (For Jolene McGehee, with love) I BELLS: DEVOTIONAL HOURS (Encompasses a waking day as measured at medieval Benedictine monasteries) Men CHRISTIAN GUTIERREZ MAXMILIAN ISAACSON YEVGENY SHLAPKO BILAL SMITH SAM AINLEY KEENAN ENGLISH NICHOLAS FOKINE RAUM ARON GENS-OSTROWSKI LUKE POTGIETER Women ALYSSA PILGER KATHLEEN BLACK MARGARET SEVERIN-HANSEN TAYLOR AYOTTE ASHLEY HATHAWAY HEATHER DUNCAN ANNE WRIGHT SARA ROE RACHEL ROBINSON ALYSSA PILGER Pas de Deux CHRISTIAN GUTIERREZ Love_2-1-19Fri_8pm.indd 5

4 II TIME MACHINE (A dream-like tour of the development of clocks and clock-thought) KATHLEEN BLACK HEATHER DUNCAN RACHEL ROBINSON SARA ROE ANNE WRIGHT Mechanical Clock III PULSE: THE FEELING OF WHAT HAPPENS (An asymmetrical heart-beat which appears at times as a steady, regular pulse, and at times, in radical, playful digressions) TAYLOR AYOTTE BILAL SMITH IV OVERTIME: MEMORY SINGS (A meta-temporal imagination of an ideal mind remembering) ASHLEY HATHAWAY MAXMILIAN ISAACSON Pendulum: Body Swayed to Motion MARGARET SEVERIN-HANSEN And the entire cast SAM AINLEY *Published by Subito Music Publishing, a division of Subito Music Corporation. Celebration of Robert Ricky Weiss Founding Artistic Director/CEO March 22, 2019, 8:30 PM A.J. Fletcher Opera Theater YEVGENY SHLAPKO A Clockwork Universe...Radioactive Clock: The Rhythm of Disintegration And KEENAN ENGLISH LUKE POTGIETER RAUM ARON GENS-OSTROWSKI NICHOLAS FOKINE This special performance will include five of Ricky s remarkable Pas de Deux performed by our Principal Dancers. Reservations are available on carolinaballet.com starting February 4, Love_2-1-19Fri_8pm.indd 6

5 PROGRAM NOTES LOVE IN THE TIMES OF THE DAY This ballet is dedicated to Patricia and Malcolm Brown, dear friends of mine and also of Carolina Ballet s. When my wife, Melissa Podcasy, and I visited our good friend Mark Scearce in Prague in early November 2017, he took us to the Museum dedicated to the work of revered Czech artist Alphonse Mucha. We came across a large quadriptych entitled Times of the Day. It consisted of four women in various poses representing Dawn / Morning; Mid-day / Noon; Evening / Twilight; and Night. Each part of the monumental work was approximately nine feet tall by six feet wide. Standing there looking at these beautiful images, I turned to Melissa and Mark and said we should do a ballet, Times of the Day, based on these art nouveau images of women. There are many musical compositions based on the four seasons, as well as ballets, but as far as I know there are no musical compositions based on the times of the day. When we arrived back in Raleigh and Zalman Raffael and I were planning the season, I suggested we call the ballet Love in the Times of the Day and present it in February for Valentine s Day. Since we had such a great experience working with William Wolfram last season, I asked Mark if he would compose a piece for solo piano which he did. The final result you are about to see. It then seemed a great opportunity to pair this work with Paul Moravec s Time Gallery for an evening exploring time. Robert Weiss Love_2-1-19Fri_8pm.indd 2

6 TIME GALLERY For Jolene McGehee, with love. I have always been fascinated by the ways in which we, as temporal beings, react to time the cycles of life, the cycle of the day, the way time seems to slow down on some occasions and other times dissipate before our eyes, and, finally, how our memories often seem to affect our relationship to time s passing. All of this seemed embodied in Paul Moravec s work The Time Gallery, which, as pure music, has many complex rhythms and instrumental textures upon which to build the architecture of a dance through time. When he sent me this score in 20XX, I knew immediately this could be a ballet. Robert Weiss COMPOSER NOTES For composer notes of Love in the Times of the Day and Time Gallery, please view our digital program online at MUSICIAN BIO WILLIAM WOLFRAM (Pianist, Love in the Times of the Day) American pianist William Wolfram was a silver medalist at both the William Kapell and Naumburg International Piano Competitions and a bronze medalist at the prestigious Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow. Wolfram has appeared with many of the greatest orchestras of the world and has developed a special reputation as the rare concerto soloist who is also equally versatile and adept as a recitalist, accompanist and chamber musician. In all of these genres, he is highly sought after for his special focus on the music of Franz Liszt and Beethoven and is a special champion for the music of modernist 20th century American composers. His concerto debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony under the baton of Leonard Slatkin was the first in a long succession of appearances and career relationships with American conductors and orchestras. The numerous American orchestras he has appeared with include San Francisco, Saint Louis, Indianapolis, Seattle and New Jersey symphonies, and the National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, DC). Abroad, Wolfram has appeared with the BBC Symphony Orchestra of London, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and many others. As educator and teacher, Mr. Wolfram is a long-standing member of the piano faculty of the Eastern Music Festival in North Carolina, and a regular featured guest at the Colorado College Music Festival in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He also teaches a performance class at the acclaimed Manhattan School of Music. A graduate of The Julliard School, William Wolfram resides in New York City with his wife. They have two daughters, one of whom, Lauren, is a dancer with Carolina Ballet. Mr. Wolfram is a Yamaha artist. Love_2-1-19Fri_8pm.indd 3