“Chamber Music Theatre,” a phrase coined by critic Charles Passy, encompasses an approach to producing new work that the CORE Ensemble has taken over the last several years. The idea of melding other performance genres, such as dramatic narrative and dance/movement to our chamber music performances has become the focus of our performance presentation the last five years.
	Of Ebony Embers | Tres Vidas | CORE and Chamber Music Theatre
	OF EBONY EMBERS
	Of Ebony Embers is a music theatre work for solo actor and chamber music trio. This evening length piece explores the life and times of African Americans who helped shape the Harlem Renaissance. Of Ebony Embers connects us to the lives of three outstanding but very different African-American poets - Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen and Claude McKay - as seen through the eyes of the great painter and muralist Aaron Douglas. The CORE Ensemble, the nationally acclaimed trio of cello, piano and percussion, performs music by African American composers ranging from jazz greats Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton, Billy Strayhorn, Thelonious Monk and Charles Mingus to concert music composers Jeffrey Mumford and George Walker.
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	TRES VIDAS*
	Tres Vidas, for solo singing actress and chamber music trio, is based on the lives of three legendary Latin American women: renowned Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, Argentinean poet Alfonsina Storni, and Salvadoran peasant-activist Rufina Amaya. The musical score includes arrangements of popular and folk music from Latin America, music by tango master Astor Piazzola and new music by Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Osvaldo Golijov, Jorge Liderman, and Michael DeMurga. The singing actress, performing in both Spanish and English, will portray the three heroines. The scenes include images of Frida Kahlo’s dramatic visual art, passages from Rufina Amaya’s heartfelt testimony regarding a brutal massacre of her village and excerpts from Alfonsina Storni’s passionate poetry.
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	*new for 2000-2001
	CORE ENSEMBLE AND CHAMBER MUSIC THEATRE
	Music theatre works include Earth Studies (1996), with music by Martin Brody, commissioned by Palm Beach Community College/Duncan Theatre with major funding from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Charcoal Sketches (1997), Of Ebony Embers-Vignettes of the Harlem Renaissance (1998) commissioned by Palm Beach Community College/Duncan Theatre and the Harid Conservatory, El Mozote (1999) with music by Carlos Sanchez-Guiterrez and Osvaldo Golijov, jointly commissioned by Penn State University, Central Park Summerstage and Duncan Theatre/Palm Beach Community College with support from the Barlow Foundation, Myths of the Subtropics (1999), with music by Michael DeMurga and Kari Juusela, Houdini-Memories of a Conjurer (2000) with music by Judith Shatin.

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