Portrait and a Dream - ACT 1, IX. Mural (Jackson Pollock Opera)
WATCH THE FULL OPERA: https://youtu.be/atDVCVRDqrU "Mural" performed by Kendra Berentsen https://www.kendraberentsen.com/ Portrait and a Dream (2021), an opera about Jackson Pollock & Lee Krasner by Brian Petuch https://www.brianpetuch.com/ Lee Krasner - Kendra Berentsen Jackson Pollock - Brian Giebler Hans Hofmann, Hans Namuth - Ricardo Rivera Commissioned and premiered by Contemporaneous, conducted by David Bloom This filming is from the premiere on 9/18/21 at Irondale Center in Brooklyn, NY https://www.contemporaneous.org/ _________________________________________________________ Much gratitude to Helen Harrison and the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center for granting use and access to the interviews from Jeffrey Potter's book "To a Violent Grave". Video filmed and edited by Mary & Christopher Smith at Point of Order Productions https://www.pointoforderproductions.com/ Direction - Ashley Tata https://www.ashleytata.com/ Scenic & Video Design - Magnus Pind https://magnuspind.com/ Lighting Design - Abigail Hoke-Brady http://www.hokebradydesigns.com/ Costume Design - Márion Talán de la Rosa http://www.mariontalan.com/ Associate Video Design - Adam J. Thompson Production Stage Manager - Dustin Z. West Assistant Stage Manager - Thomas Giles Production Manager - Zachary James Ritter Technical Director - Steven Brenman Production Interns - Claudia Cangemi, Wendy Kya Live Sound - Zack O’Brien Recording Engineer - Charles Mueller Mastering Engineer - Matt Baltrucki Produced by Contemporaneous Flute - Fanny Wyrick-Flax Oboe - Stuart Breczinski Clarinet - Madison Greenstone Saxophone - Daniel Kochersberger Bassoon - Dirk Wels Horn - Cameron West Trumpet - Evan Honse Trombone - Daniel Linden Bass Trombone - Owen Caprell Percussion - Matt Evans, Adam Holmes, Robby Bowen Keyboard - Paul Kerekes Piano - Isabelle O'Connell Harp - Anna Bikales E Bass - Tristan Kasten-Krause Violin 1 - Sabrina Tabby Violin 2 - Finnegan Shanahan Violin 3 - Nikita Morozov Violin 4/Viola 2 - Josh Henderson Viola 1 - Chelsea Wimmer Cello 1 - Amanda Gookin Cello 2 - Julia Henderson Contrabass - Pat Swoboda Special thanks to Floy & Kurt Berentsen, Linda & Ed Petuch, Antonio Romero, Paul Kerekes, Michael Roberts, Emily Moore, Matt Baltrucki, David Lang, Glenn Whitworth, Morgan Spann, and Jenna Lipman _________________________________________________________ To tell about a man’s life by anecdote is swinish – yet history is now beginning to file away those peculiar sentiments that make glamour out of unhappiness, and unhappiness out of art. With Pollock, we have a double tragedy – both death and a life in the art world came too soon. Jackson, oh Jackson – we did not know you. Why do we feel it is our fault. Why is it that we make this terrible separation from what a man does and what a man is, from what a man should do, and from what a man can’t do. And how we watched you, El Matador, waiting for the slaughter or the glory. -Morton Feldman #kendraberentsen #jacksonpollock #leekrasner #opera #abstractart #pollockmural #newopera
WATCH THE FULL OPERA: https://youtu.be/atDVCVRDqrU "Mural" performed by Kendra Berentsen https://www.kendraberentsen.com/ Portrait and a Dream (2021), an opera about Jackson Pollock & Lee Krasner by Brian Petuch https://www.brianpetuch.com/ Lee Krasner - Kendra Berentsen Jackson Pollock - Brian Giebler Hans Hofmann, Hans Namuth - Ricardo Rivera Commissioned and premiered by Contemporaneous, conducted by David Bloom This filming is from the premiere on 9/18/21 at Irondale Center in Brooklyn, NY https://www.contemporaneous.org/ _________________________________________________________ Much gratitude to Helen Harrison and the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center for granting use and access to the interviews from Jeffrey Potter's book "To a Violent Grave". Video filmed and edited by Mary & Christopher Smith at Point of Order Productions https://www.pointoforderproductions.com/ Direction - Ashley Tata https://www.ashleytata.com/ Scenic & Video Design - Magnus Pind https://magnuspind.com/ Lighting Design - Abigail Hoke-Brady http://www.hokebradydesigns.com/ Costume Design - Márion Talán de la Rosa http://www.mariontalan.com/ Associate Video Design - Adam J. Thompson Production Stage Manager - Dustin Z. West Assistant Stage Manager - Thomas Giles Production Manager - Zachary James Ritter Technical Director - Steven Brenman Production Interns - Claudia Cangemi, Wendy Kya Live Sound - Zack O’Brien Recording Engineer - Charles Mueller Mastering Engineer - Matt Baltrucki Produced by Contemporaneous Flute - Fanny Wyrick-Flax Oboe - Stuart Breczinski Clarinet - Madison Greenstone Saxophone - Daniel Kochersberger Bassoon - Dirk Wels Horn - Cameron West Trumpet - Evan Honse Trombone - Daniel Linden Bass Trombone - Owen Caprell Percussion - Matt Evans, Adam Holmes, Robby Bowen Keyboard - Paul Kerekes Piano - Isabelle O'Connell Harp - Anna Bikales E Bass - Tristan Kasten-Krause Violin 1 - Sabrina Tabby Violin 2 - Finnegan Shanahan Violin 3 - Nikita Morozov Violin 4/Viola 2 - Josh Henderson Viola 1 - Chelsea Wimmer Cello 1 - Amanda Gookin Cello 2 - Julia Henderson Contrabass - Pat Swoboda Special thanks to Floy & Kurt Berentsen, Linda & Ed Petuch, Antonio Romero, Paul Kerekes, Michael Roberts, Emily Moore, Matt Baltrucki, David Lang, Glenn Whitworth, Morgan Spann, and Jenna Lipman _________________________________________________________ To tell about a man’s life by anecdote is swinish – yet history is now beginning to file away those peculiar sentiments that make glamour out of unhappiness, and unhappiness out of art. With Pollock, we have a double tragedy – both death and a life in the art world came too soon. Jackson, oh Jackson – we did not know you. Why do we feel it is our fault. Why is it that we make this terrible separation from what a man does and what a man is, from what a man should do, and from what a man can’t do. And how we watched you, El Matador, waiting for the slaughter or the glory. -Morton Feldman #kendraberentsen #jacksonpollock #leekrasner #opera #abstractart #pollockmural #newopera