Who's Who in Central & East Europe - A Journey in the Text
(Audio Work), CD, Tzadik #8157, 2010
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Who's Who in Central & East Europe - A Journey in the Text
(Audio Work), CD, Tzadik #8157, 2010
(Audio Work), CD, Tzadik #8157, 2010
"This is the long awaited release of one of Dreyblatt's most personal and major extended works.
Created in 1991, it combined documentary photographs, films, texts and sound materials selected from archives and private collections with original music and was a landmark in multimedia opera production, touring a dozen cities and winning the Philip Morris Art Prize in 1992." - Tzadik, 2010
Created in 1991, it combined documentary photographs, films, texts and sound materials selected from archives and private collections with original music and was a landmark in multimedia opera production, touring a dozen cities and winning the Philip Morris Art Prize in 1992." - Tzadik, 2010
Video Documention: (click "View Video" on right)
1. Excerpts from performances at Gasteig, Munich, 1991
2. French Television reports on Dreyblatt and the Who's Who project
1. Overture: 6:36
2. Beginnings: 7:31
3. Famous: 5:54
4. Forgotten Provinces: 6:43
5. National States: 2:30
6. War: 4:18
7. Destinies: 4:39
8. Women: 3:53
9. Friendship: 2:53
10. Jews: 3:32
11. Invention: 4:49
12. Personal Philosophies: 4:58
13. Collection:s 3:11
14. 1933: 7:05
15. Now: 5:57
Concept, Text, Music by Arnold Dreyblatt
Executive Producer: John Zorn
Associate Producer: Kazinori Sugiyama
Speakers:
Peter Gilbert Cotton
Ilene Winckler
Alexandr Krestovskij
Tibor Szemzö
Voice Recordings: Choose, Berlin by Jörg Hiller
Sound Design: Jörg Hiller with Joachim Schütz, Choose, Berlin
Mastering: Mastertone by Scott Hull, 2010
Musicians and Participants:
Pierre Berthet: Water Drip Drum Installation, Percussion, Shelley Hirsch: Voice, Joachim Schütz: Guitar; Robin Hayward: Tuba; Jan Schade: Tuba; Jörg Hiller: Electronics; Hans Peter Kuhn: Sound Environment for original opera performance; Arnold Dreyblatt: Piano, Electronics, Sound Composition
Full Text / Libretto Album Notes Photos
Who's Who in Central & East Europe 1933
hypertext multimedia opera, 1991
hypertext multimedia opera, 1991
Production was realized in 1991 as a commission from Inventionen '91, Berlin and
the DAAD program; and later at the Gasteig, München; Secession
Wien, (Wiener Fest Wochen); in Kulturpalast Dresden; in
1994 at the Berlin Festival in Prague (in Czech Language); in 1995 at Kunstmuseum
Wolfsburg and the Goethe Institute Budapest (in Hungarian Language); and
in 1997 at the Zurich Theater Spektakel, Stadtheater Ludwigshaven, and
at Festspielhaus Hellerau-Dresden.
The production won the Philip Morris Art Prize in 1992.
Materials: Computer synchronized slide projection system, eight channel sound environment, 16 mm film projection
Performers: three speakers of texts, composition performed by The Orchestra of Excited Strings; Vocalist: Shelley Hirsch
Set in a Procenium arch situation, in which a series of scrim material walls divide the stage space laterally into several light zones. Private (amateur) photographs and films, and documentary sound materials (language and music) representing the regions and the time period have been selected from archives and personal collections. Light and shadow integrate the performers within the projections. An opera libretto composed of textual historical fragments was sung and spoken by the performers.
Texts from: Who's Who in Central & East Europe 1933
Images: Horus Archive, Private Film Archive, Budapest
Image Composition: Etta Von Cramer
Sound Material: German Radio Archive.
Sound Composition by Hans Peter Kuhn
Stage and Light Design, Co-Direction: Fred Pommerehn
Hypertext: Heiko Idensen
The production won the Philip Morris Art Prize in 1992.
Materials: Computer synchronized slide projection system, eight channel sound environment, 16 mm film projection
Performers: three speakers of texts, composition performed by The Orchestra of Excited Strings; Vocalist: Shelley Hirsch
Set in a Procenium arch situation, in which a series of scrim material walls divide the stage space laterally into several light zones. Private (amateur) photographs and films, and documentary sound materials (language and music) representing the regions and the time period have been selected from archives and personal collections. Light and shadow integrate the performers within the projections. An opera libretto composed of textual historical fragments was sung and spoken by the performers.
Texts from: Who's Who in Central & East Europe 1933
Images: Horus Archive, Private Film Archive, Budapest
Image Composition: Etta Von Cramer
Sound Material: German Radio Archive.
Sound Composition by Hans Peter Kuhn
Stage and Light Design, Co-Direction: Fred Pommerehn
Hypertext: Heiko Idensen
Performances:
Inventionen '91, Kino Babylon, 1991
Wiener Fest Wochen, Vienna, 1991
Kulturpalast, Dresden (Production: Philip Morris), 1991
Gasteig, München (Production: Philip Morris), 1991
Berlin Hier und Jetzt Festival (Dnes a Tady), in collaboration with the Goethe
Institute, Prague, 1994
Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, 1995
Petrofi Czarnok, Budapest, in collaboration with the Goethe Institute, Prague,
1995
Theater Spektakel, Zurich, 1997
Festspielhaus Hellerau-Dresden, 1997
Theater im Pfalzbau, Ludwigshafen/Rhein, 1997
