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Drew Peterson, pianist
Josephine Baker
John Edward Hasse, guest curator
Felix Conteras, conga
Ellington Carthan, pianist and narrator
Jeffrey Mumford, guest curator
Annie Jacobs-Perkins, cello
Katerina Burton, soprano
CAAPA Choir
Robin De Jesús, actor
David Strathairn, actor
Kevork Mourad, artist
Derek Goldman, playwright/director
José Sacín, bass baritone (Don Quihote)
Israel Lozano, tenor (Master Peter)
Jennifer Zetlan, soprano (Trujaman)
Ricardo Marlow, Flamenco guitar
Philip Kennicott, guest curator
Hany Hassan FAIA, visuals
Flávio Chamis, guest curator
André Mehmari, pianist and composer
Tatjana Mead Chamis, viola
Elin Melgarejo, vocalist
Jerod Tate, guest curator
Nino Rota, composer

Entwined: A Double Feature

Featuring the world-premiere of Entwined: Love’s Magicians by Derek Goldman and El retablo de maese Pedro (Master Peter’s Puppet Show) by Manuel de Falla.


In celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Manuel de Falla’s seminal chamber opera, El retablo de maese Pedro (Master Peter’s Puppet Show), PCE and playwright/director Derek Goldman team up to present Entwined: A Double Feature. This program features the world premiere of Goldman's sensuous new performance piece conjuring the deep and unlikely friendship between Federico García Lorca, widely regarded as the greatest Spanish poet of the twentieth century, and Manuel de Falla, Spain’s most prominent composer of the period. With Flamenco artists, solosits, actors, and more, the performance will help contextualize the second half of the program.


In the second half, PCE performs the chamber opera El retablo de maese Pedro, possibly de Falla's best work. The opera was premiered in March 1923 at the salon of Princess de Polignac who commissioned the work. The opera was inspired by a chapter in Don Quixote and is set in early 17th century Spain. In this collaboration with visual artist Kevork Mourad, puppets are replaced by animation synced with the score performed by PostClassical Ensemble.

“Entwined: Love’s Magicians'' by Derek Goldman

This is a sensuous new multi-disciplinary performance piece that conjures the deep and unlikely friendship between Federico García Lorca and Manuel de Falla. While on the surface the two men were a study in contrasts, they became entwined through a deep friendship and profound mutual influence on one another’s work, and their shared passion for the rich heritage of traditional Spanish music (Andalusian “cante jondo” or “deep song”). This performance explores and celebrates the many paradoxes at the heart of this profound and complex relationship such as: Lorca’s homosexuality and liberal world view and Falla’s devout Catholicism; old and new artistic forms (the recuperation of ancient traditional forms along with radical experimentation and innovation); love and tenderness alongside suffering and death; the beauty and poetic genius of Lorca’s writing, and his tragic untimely murder at the hands of Nationalist forces.

Selected Critic's Choice by Washington Classical Review

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READ: A short powerpoint about “Entwined: A Double Feature”

READ: The Centenary of the premiere of "El retablo"

WATCH: A short clip of Kevork Mourad’s illustrated “puppets”

WATCH: Kevork Mourad at work

Concert

Entwined: A Double Feature

Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 7:30pm

Terrace Theater | The Kennedy Center | 2700 F St NW, Washington, DC

Entwined: Love’s Magicians

Derek Goldman, playwright/director

David Strathairn, actor

Robin De Jesús, actor

Kevork Mourad, visual artist

Sonia Olla, Flamenco dancer

Ismael Fernandez, Flamenco singer

Ricardo Marlow, Flamenco guitar

‍PostClassical Ensemble conducted by Angel Gil-Ordóñez

El retablo de maese Pedro

Kevork Mourad, visual artist

Jennifer Zetlan, soprano

José Sacín, bass baritone

Israel Lozano, tenor

PostClassical Ensemble conducted by Angel Gil-Ordóñez

Program

Entwined: Love’s Magicians

Written and directed by Derek Goldman

Music excerpts from Manuel de Falla’s “El Amor Brujo” (Love, the magician), Silvestre Revueltas’ “Homage to Federico García Lorca”, and traditional Flamenco


Manuel de Falla: El retablo de maese Pedro (Master Peter’s Puppet Show)

Musical adaptation of scenes drawn from Chapters 25–26, Part II,

and elsewhere in The Ingenious Nobleman Don Quixote of La Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes (Part I, 1605; Part II, 1615)


El pregón (The Call)

La Sinfonía de Maese Pedro (Master Peter’s Overture)

Scene I. La Corte de Carlo Magno (The Court of Charlemagne), Entrada de Carlo Magno (Entrance of Charlemagne)

Scene II. Melisendra

Scene III. El suplicio del Moro (The Moor’s Punishment)

Scene IV. Los Pirineos (The Pyrenees)

Scene V. La fuga (The Escape)

Scene VI. La persecución (The Pursuit)

Finale


Post-Concert Discussion


This performance is an external rental presented in coordination with the Kennedy Center Campus Rentals Office and is not produced by the Kennedy Center.

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