Cantata Singers & Ensemble
David Hoose, Music Director
World Premiere: Lior Navok‘s
And the Trains Kept Coming . . .
Cantata Singers Commission
Kurt Weill: The Prophets from The Eternal Road
First Boston performance
Friday, January 18, 2008 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, January 20, 2008 at 3 p.m.
New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall,
30 Gainsborough St., Boston
617-868-5885
Available at www.cantatasingers.org
https://secure.cantatasingers.org/orderforms/tickets_season07-08.htm
TICKETS: $54, $34, & $20; $5 discount for WGBH members. $15 for students and seniors
(section C tickets only).
Limited student rush tickets available 30 min. before concert time with $10 cash and
student ID.
Jordan Hall Box Office
30 Gainsborough Street in Boston
(617-585-1260) or BosTix at Faneuil Hall & Copley Square.
Israeli born composer Lior Navok gives voice to the unspeakable tragedies of the
Holocaust. Continuing the powerful stream begun by Donald Sur’s Slavery Documents and spurred
on by T.J. Anderson, Navok’s Slavery Documents 3: And the Trains Kept Coming . . . also takes
its texts from primary source documents this time from Holocaust correspondence,
including communications that implored the Allies to bomb the railroad tracks
leading to the European death camps, transport train schedules, and scribbled notes
wedged into the cracked walls of the barracks. Weill s thrilling
The Prophets, from his colossal pageant The Eternal Road no less than the history
of the Jewish people takes its inspiration from the prophecies of the Book of
Jeremiah.
Read more about the program at http://www.cantatasingers.org/concerts.html
Friday, January 18, 2008 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, January 20, 2008 at 3 p.m.
And the Trains Kept Coming . . .
With guest artists from
Kurt Weill: The Prophets from The Eternal Road
First Boston performance
PALS Children s Chorus
Johanna Hill Simpson, Conductor
Spectrum Singers
John W. Ehrlich, Music Director
Soloists include
James Petosa and Jason McDowell-Green, narrators
Rockland Osgood, tenor
David Kravitz, baritone
Karyl Ryczek, soprano
Majie Zeller, mezzo-soprano
Stephen Williams, tenor
Brian Church, baritone
Dana Whiteside, baritone
Pre-concert discussion with Lior Navok
6:45 Friday and 1:45 Sunday in NEC’s St. Botolph Hall
On January 18 & 20, 2008 in New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall,
Cantata Singers & Ensemble under Music Director David Hoose presents the
world premiere performances of Israeli composer Lior Navok’s And the
Trains Kept Coming . . .
Navok has based the texts for And the Trains Kept Coming . . . on primary
source Holocaust documents including correspondence that implored the
Allies to bomb the railroad tracks leading to the WWII death camps in
Europe, train transport schedules, and scribbled notes wedged into barrack walls.
These compelling texts have inspired a rare musical confrontation between a
heartless political war machine and the personal anguish and death of millions of
innocent people.
And the Trains Kept Coming . . . represents the third commissioned work
in Cantata Singers’ “Slavery Documents” stream, begun in 1990 with Donald
Sur’s Slavery Documents and later lengthened by T.J. Anderson’s own
musical confrontation with American slavery.
Kurt Weill’s The Prophets, from his colossal pageant The Eternal
Road which chronicles the history of the Jewish people, complements
Navok’s monumental work. Music Director David Hoose leads the
Cantata Singers chorus, soloists, orchestra, and guest singers from The
Spectrum Singers and PALS Children’s chorus in these world premiere
performances.
Tickets are $20, $34 and $54, with group discounts available. Order at
617-868-5885 or online at www.cantatasingers.org.
Season sponsors include:
This program is funded in part by The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Inc., 7 East
20th Street, New York, NY; and grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and
the National Endowment for the Arts: