Evento

Broadway Chamber Players Presents "The Soldier's Tale"

Igor Stravinsky's Faustian tale pits a deserted soldier against the devil himself in a battle for love, art, and the soldier's soul. Written while exiled in Switzerland during World War I, "L'Histoire du Soldat" finds Stravinsky moving away from his Russian traditionalism to embrace the new world of jazz--resulting in an economical theater work that merges acting, dancing, and a septet of seemingly disparate instruments.

Broadway Chamber Players presents its first multidisciplinary program, bringing together some of the Theater District's finest artists, who can currently be seen nightly in "The Lion King," "The King and I," "Finding Neverland," and "Les Misérables."

PROGRAM

Igor Stravinsky
L'Histoire du Soldat (The Soldier's Tale)

Constantine Kitsopoulos, conductor

Louise Owen, violin
David Sapadin, clarinet
Alden Banta, bassoon
Paul Murphy, trumpet
Jeff Nelson, trombone
David Romano, bass
Matthew Beaumont, percussion

Jeffrey Binder, narrator

Vera Huff, choreographer

William Briscoe, Jere Hunt,
Shannon Maynor, Sarah Rodak, dancers

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Broadway Chamber Players comprises the finest instrumentalists, composers, and conductors across classical, jazz, and new-music fields, unified by one common threadwe all perform on Broadway. BCP seeks to continue Broadway's great tradition of live music by bringing its musicians from the pit to the stage, further enriching the Theater District concert scene by programming diverse chamber-music concerts and providing a fresh approach to hearing some of New York City's finest musicians in an intimate setting.