Ring Cycle Prelude, part of LA Opera’s Ring Festival LA
May 22 8:00 pm
First Pres Santa Monica

Paul Hindemith
  Septet for winds (1948)
Franz Schubert
  Longing (1827); Night Song in the Forest (1827)
  The Gondolier (1825); Bright Night (1827)
  Song of the Spirits over the Waters (1828)
Richard Wagner
  Siegfried Idyll (1870)   
Gustav Mahler/H. Stadlmair
  Adagio from Symphony No. 10 (1911)        

Julie Gigante, Alyssa Park, Shalani Vijayan, Rafael Rishik, Susan Rishik, Songa Lee,
Philip Vaiman, Neli Nikolaeva, Marina Manukian & Ashoka Thiagarajan, violins
Robert Brophy,  Jeanie Lim, Ariana Solotoff, violas
Timothy Loo, David Low, Tina Soule & Elizabeth Wright, cellos
Nico Abandolo, Don Ferrone, Steve Dress, double basses
Eileen Holt, flute
Stuart Clark & James Sullivan, clarinets
Leslie Reed, Oboe
Richard Beene, bassoon
Teag Reaves, Danielle Ondarza, Joseph Meyer & Amy Sanchez, horns
David Etterbeek, trumpet
James Callon, tenor
Steven Vanhauwaert, piano
Men of the Jacaranda Chamber Singers: Reid Bruton, James Callon, Daniel Chaney,
Dylan Gentile, Jody Golightly, Abdiel Gonzales, Scott Graff & Michael Lichtenauer
Mark Alan Hilt, conductor

Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll was written in the middle of composing his great Ring Cycle. It is laden with personal and artistic significance. This before-and-after program offers an infectious anti-Wagnerian post-war gem, five mini-dramas that anticipate, and – among life’s great ironies – one of the great Jewish heirs to the legacy of this famously anti-Semitic composer at his most impassioned.

Three complete Wagner Ring Cycles run from May 29 to June 26 at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.