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United Nations 50th Anniversary Concert

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Company
San Francisco Opera Association
Location
San Francisco, CA
Venue
War Memorial Opera House
Season
1994-1995

Show Dates

Acknowledgements

Tonight's concert is made possible by the generous support of the Renaissance Vineyard and Winery. The William Bolcom commission has been made possible, in part, by the support of the G.H.C. Meyer Family Fund.

Legacy Commission

(see notes)

Notes

The concert featured:
Adler Fellows of the San Francisco Opera Center
1995 Merola Opera Program Singers
San Francisco Opera Orchestra
San Francisco Opera Chorus

Program:

Benjamin Britten, Four Sea Interludes from "Peter Grimes"

William Bolcom, A Whitman Triptych (WORLD PREMIERE)
Commissioned by San Francisco Opera
Come Up from the Fields, Father
Scented Herbage of My Breast
Years of the Modern
Marilyn Horne

INTERMISSION

Aaron Copland, Fanfare for the Common Man

Aaron Copland, At the River (from "Old American Songs")
Marilyn Horne

Leonard Bernstein, Selections from "Songfest"
To the Poem
Music I Heard With You
(Zheng Cao, soloist)
Israfel
Adler Fellows:
Kristin Clayton, Elizabeth Bishop, Zheng Cao, Alfredo Portilla, David Okerlund, Bojan Knezevic

Ludwig van Beethoven, Finale from Symphony No. 9
Claudia Waite
Elisabeth Bishop
Alfredo Portilla
Chester Patton
Members of the 1995 Merola Opera Program
San Francisco Opera Chorus