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Date(s) - Sat. Jun. 18, 2022
7:00 pm
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American composer Jeff Beal presents a world premiere chamber arrangement of his dreamy song cycle, The Paper Lined Shack, featuring two-time Grammy award winning soprano Hilà Plitmann & the New Hollywood String Quartet.
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Doors open 6:30PM.
About this Event
For American composer Jeff Beal, finding a strong female voice to set to music for the fierce soprano Hilá Plitmann ultimately led to The Paper Lined Shack, a song cycle for soprano and orchestra using texts from his great-grandmother’s memoirs, excerpted and arranged by Joan Beal. These reflections of her life at the turn of the 20th century in Idaho, recently widowed and raising her six children in a single-room shack, spoke to Beal in a very personal way, and he began composing the piece for Plitmann in a commission by the St. Louis Symphony and conductor Leonard Slatkin.
This June, a recording of The Paper Lined Shack will be released on Supertrain Records on an album also featuring Things Unseen performed by the New Hollywood String Quartet. This program is a world premiere chamber arrangement of The Paper Lined Shack for Plitmann and the New Hollywood, conducted by Beal himself, in a performance featuring projections of images, now more than a century old, from these memoirs.
