NWEAMO 2022
Gene Pritsker & Todd Rewoldt "Duets For The End Of The World"
Also on the program will be works by Debra Kaye & Da Cooper as well as Southern California composers Texu Kim, Madelyn Byrne, Aaron Alter
The Magic Hummingbird at The Cutting Room, NYC
Bringing Waters’ songs to life, at Nweamo and New York City, are an eclectic group of singers including the amazing, versatile Leonard Patton, whose three octave range, from Baritone through Countertenor, is put to full use in Waters’ score. Breakout soprano Karen Garcia, who has been working with Waters over the last six years in the germination and development of the work. Ms. Garcia has a luminous upper range that blooms above the staff. She performs the role of Apollonia, a mystical creature, half human and half plant in the opera. At the Nweamo concert she will be performing “We“ based on the sacred poetry of Mexican curandera Maria Sabina.
Joining in duets with Patton will be Cat Rojo, performing the role of Clara, based on St. Clara from the Saint Francis mythology upon which the opera is loosely based. Patton plays Franklin, tortured and talented friend and sometimes frenemy of Saint Francis. The opera is about breaking borders, set equally in Tijuana and San Diego, and between a group of refugees and a white separatist cult, led by an insane, Trump-like sociopath The Preacher.
NWEAMO 2022 – Concert number one
Benefit for the victims of Ukraine
Friday, April 29, 2022
7:00 PM Smith Recital Hall
San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Dr, San Diego, CA 92182
CompCord Ensemble
Gene Pritsker – guitar/Di.J.
Todd Rewoldt – alto Sax
Petro Krysa – violin
Program
1. Duets for the End Of The World Movement 1 – Gene Pritsker
2. Anguish—Compassion — Requiem – Joseph Waters
3. Images – movements 1&2 – Texu Kim
4. The Will – Gene Pritsker
5. Lament Prayer and Renewal – Aaron Alter
6. Pand Q. – Gene Pritsker
7. TBA – Dan Cooper
8. Duets for the End Of The World Movement 2 – Gene Pritsker
9. COFFEE!!! – Madelyn Byrne
10. Figar-Oh – Gene Pritsker
11 Bagatelle No. 1. – Debra Kaye
Music begins at 40:00
For Waters’ 2016 NWEAMO festival, he brought Pritsker’s four-member CompCord ensemble to the San Diego Festival, but this year only Pritsker came to serve as electric guitar soloist and program emcee. Fortunately, he was assisted Friday by two stellar musicians, saxophone virtuoso and Waters’ fellow SDSU music faculty member Todd Rewoldt and Seattle-based violin maestro Petro Krysa.
Pritsker offered two movements from his “Duets for the End of the World,” a title that salutes Olivier Messaien’s iconic 20th-century “Quartet for the End of Time.” Pritsker’s opening movement of the Duet grounded Rewoldt’s languid but haunting alto saxophone themes in his own edgy guitar ostinato. If the Duet’s second movement began with a similar guitar ostinato, it quickly evolved into violent licks that engaged both guitar and saxophone in highly charged dueling motifs that eventually resolved in exalted parallel declamations….
NWEAMO 2022 – Concert number Two
Benefit for the victims of Ukraine
Sunday, May 1, 2022
7:00 pm
Venue: The Jazz Lounge
6818 El Cajon Blvd., San Diego, CA, 92115
Music@TheJazz lounge.Live
Admission: benefit for Ukraine. $20 suggested. Payments will go directly via QR code to UNICEF
Works by:
Maile Pacumio
Nakul Tiruviluamala
Jordan Kuspa
plus selections fromThe Magic Hummingbird
(El Colibrí Mágico)
The Magic Hummingbird at The Cutting Room, NYC
Bringing Waters’ songs to life, at Nweamo and New York City, are an eclectic group of singers including the amazing, versatile Leonard Patton, whose three octave range, from Baritone through Countertenor, is put to full use in Waters’ score. Breakout soprano Karen Garcia, who has been working with Waters over the last six years in the germination and development of the work.
Ms. Garcia has a luminous upper range that blooms above the staff. She performs the role of Apollonia, a mystical creature, half human and half plant in the opera. At the Nweamo concert she will be performing “We“ based on the sacred poetry of Mexican curandera Maria Sabina.
Joining in duets with Patton will be Cat Rojo, performing the role of Clara, based on St. Clara from the Saint Francis mythology upon which the opera is loosely based. Patton plays Franklin, tortured and talented friend and sometimes frenemy of Saint Francis. The opera is about breaking borders, set equally in Tijuana and San Diego, and between a group of refugees and a white separatist cult, led by an insane, Trump-like sociopath The Preacher.
- Shouldn’t
- Cat Rojo vocal
- Antonina Styczeń Alto flute
- Todd Rewoldt Tenor sax
- Tina Chong Piano
- Andrew Michel e. bass
- We
- Karen Garcia vocal
- Antonina Styczeń Alto flute
- Todd Rewoldt Alto sax
- Tina Chong Piano
- Andrew Michel e. bass
- The Border
- Cat Rojo vocal
- Leonard Patton vocal/cajon
- Antonina Styczeń flute
- Todd Rewoldt Alto sax
- Tina Chong Piano/keyboard
- Michael Jones guitar
- Andrew Michel bass
- David Sullivan Drums
- Underground
- Cat Rojo vocal
- Leonard Patton vocal/cajon
- Antonina Styczeń flute
- Todd Rewoldt Alto sax
- Tina Chong Piano/keyboard
- Michael Jones guitar
- Andrew Michel bass
- David Sullivan Drums
- Circle of pain
- Cat Rojo vocal
- Leonard Patton vocal/Cajon
- David Sullivan Drums
- Philip Gomez vocal
- Antonina Styczeń Alto flute
- Todd Rewoldt tenor sax
- Tina Chong Piano
- Sonya Schumann: Combo organ: Vox continental
- Michael Jones guitar
- Andrew Michel bass
- Saint children
- Karen Garcia vocal
- Rudy Giron vocal
- Cat Rojo vocal
- Leonard Patton vocal/Cajon
- Philip Gomez vocal
- Antonina Styczeń flute/bass flute/nose flute
- Todd Rewoldt Alto sax
- Tina Chong Piano
- Michael Jones guitar
- Andrew Michel bass
- David Sullivan Udu
Musicians:
Cat Rojo
Karen Garcia
Leonard Patton
Philip Gomez
Michael Jones
Todd Rewoldt
Antonina Styczeń
Tina Chong
David Smith-sound reinforcement
Several of the NWEAMO May 1 selections are available as videos and singles:
Sincerely, Jozefius Vaatierz Rattus (Joseph M. Waters):
Founder & Artistic Director
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