Name: Cactus Pear Music Festival Program # 1 “OFF THE TOP OF YOUR HEAD”
Start: 2024-07-13T15:00:00-05:00
Location: University of the Incarnate Word, Diane Bennack Concert Hall, 4301 Broadway St, San Antonio, TX 78209

$Cactus Pear Music Festival Program # 1 \u201cOFF THE TOP OF YOUR HEAD\u201d$

CPMF 2024 SEASON: SPUR OF THE MOMENT This summer will be Cactus Pear Music Festival’s 28th season. All concerts this season are free musical offerings, due to limited seating we do need you to register for your free ticket.
“OFF THE TOP OF YOUR HEAD” University of the Incarnate Word, Diane Bennack Concert Hall, 4301 Broadway St, San Antonio, TX 78209 Saturday, July 13 • 3pm
“Off the Top of Your Head” includes the beautiful Suite dans le style ancien of French composer Mélanie Bonis, one of the most important women composers in France at the turn of the century. The program continues with Mozart’s playful and gorgeous Piano Concerto no. 17 in G major, performed by artistic director Jeffrey Sykes in an arrangement made for our ensemble. The centerpiece of the program is Kevin Puts’ epic solo cantata about the life of Albert Einstein, Einstein on Mercer Street. Kevin Puts won the Pulitzer Prize for his opera Silent Night and recently had a huge success at the Metropolitan Opera with the premiere of his opera The Hours. Einstein on Mercer Street was his first major vocal work and is considered to be his first masterpiece. The work was written for bass-baritone Timothy Jones, and Timothy will be joining us to sing the role of Einstein. With the recent success of the movie Oppenheimer, interest in Einstein’s life is at an all-time high. This work is a profound reflection on the life and work of the greatest scientist of the twentieth century. Not to be missed!
Mel Bonis (1858-1937): Suite dans le style ancien (1928)— Stephanie Jutt, Wyatt Underhill, Colin Sorgi, Jeffrey Sykes
Mozart (1756-1791): Piano Concerto no. 17 in G Major, K. 453 (1784)— Jeffrey Sykes, SoJin Kim, Wyatt Underhill, Colin Sorgi, Lachezar Kostov, David Milburn, Stephanie Jutt, IIya Shterenberg
Kevin Puts (b. 1972): Einstein on Mercer Street (2002) —Timothy Jones, Stephanie Jutt, IIya Shterenberg, Lauren Eberhard, Wyatt Underhill, Lachezar Kostov, Peter Flamm, Scott Cuellar
Although it is a free concert, due to limited seating we do need you to register for your free ticket.