Music Worcester Presents Violinist Vijay Gupta: WHEN THE VIOLIN
Yamini Kalluri, dancer & choreographer
John Wayne Cormier Jr., former inmate, narrator
OpporTUNEity Songwriting Class in the Worcester County House of Corrections
Directed by Vijay Gupta, 2023 Artist in Residence - Music Worcester
Welcome: Adrien Finlay - Executive Director: Music Worcester (0:00:03 - 0:02:32)
JS Bach: Partia II from Sei Solo, BWV 1004
Allemande (0:03:30 - 0:06:13)
Courante (0:06:14 - 0:08:49)
Sarabande (0:09:18 - 0:13:12)
Giga (0:13:47 - 0:15:59)
Ciaconna (0:16:49 - 0:30:27)
Reena Esmail, When The Violin (0:30:32 - 0:35:45)
Remarks: Lew Evangelidis, Worcester County Sheriff (0:37:22 - 0:42:47)
JS Bach: Sonata III from Sei Solo, BWV 1005
OpporTUNEity Music Connections: Four Songs
Turtle Suit - Lyrics by Marc Recor (0:42:51 - 0:46:07)
Adagio (0:46:10 - 0:50:15)
April Why'd You Take So Long - Lyrics by J. Commey, S. Oppong, Tajawn Boutwell-Campbell (0:50:16 - 0:53:39)
Fuga (0:53:40 - 1:03:30)
Wish I May - Inaugural OpporTUNEity Songwriting Class in the WCHOC (1:03:37 - 1:07:19)
Largo (1:07:21 - 1:10:28)
Luckiest Guy - John Wayne Cormier (1:10:30 - 1:14:28)
Allegro Assai (1:14:55 - 1:17:20)
Recorded at Mechanics Hall, Worcester MA.
Videography: Louis Ng
PROGRAM NOTES
"When the Violin, the title of a poem by the Sufi mystic Hafiz on the power of forgiveness and new identities, will present works by JS Bach and Reena Esmail in collaboration with dance artist and choreographer Yamini Kalluri. Opening with Bach's 2nd Partita in D minor with its concluding "Ciaconna" - considered an Everest for violinists - the program will present a new choreography of the preceding baroque dance movements of Bach's Partita. Kalluri is trained as a classical Indian dancer as well as in the Martha Graham school of avant-garde ballet.
Following the D minor Partita comes Esmail's When The Violin, originally written for choir and cello, and a companion work to the 16th century Spanish composer Victoria's O Vos Omnes. Esmail writes: "The text of O Vos Omnes is asking, simply, to be seen in a moment of sorrow to be beheld through suffering and darkness. And Hafiz's text responds in such a beautiful way - it moves through that darkness and begins to let those very first slivers of light in."
Concluding the program is Bach's equally monumental 3rd Sonata in C major, which is believed to have been written for the occasion of Pentecost. The Sonata's 2nd movement, a revolutionary 3- part fugue written for a four-stringed violin, sets a Lutheran hymn "Komm, Heiliger Geist” (Come, Holy Spirit), and famously reverses the hymn subject in a feat of contrapuntal mastery."
Bach was no stranger to grief. An orphan, a widower, a father who lost children, briefly himself an inmate under the custody of a cruel employer. And yet, Bach's creative force was a kind of soul-metabolism. Musical invention was equal parts worship, celebration, and liberation: a dance through grief, and an embrace of what he considered most holy. This program juxtaposes that instinct, borne through Bach, with the music of our neighbors here in Worcester, the men who live in the House of Corrections. The artists of OpporTUNEity have metabolized their own pain, grief and joy into song, and it is a distinct honor to collaborate with them in bringing this expression to life.
-Vijay Gupta, Music Worcester Artist-In-Residence 2023
OpporTUNEity Worcester County House of Corrections Songwriting Class Performers
J.C. Felix
Francisco Albino Garcia
Angel Garcia
Yaw Opoku
Marc Recor
Dan Thomas
Thomas Wilson
OpporTUNEity Instructors
Robert Sparks
Alcides Valentin
Tajawn Boutwell-Campbell
J. Commey
S. Oppong
John Wayne Cormier, Jr.
Paul Boisvert, College Student Intern (UMASS Amherst)
Video & Production: John Price
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Choreography Copyright 2023: Yamini Kalluri, Kritya Dance.
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