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Jacob's Room: Monodrama

for voice, keyboard, string orchestra and electronics
based on scenes from Morton Subotnick’s chamber opera "Jacob’s Room"
voice, keyboard, string orchestra, electronics
Morton Subotnick’s chamber opera Jacob’s Room is set in the mind of a young man struggling with the loss of family in various worldwide calamities. Jacob tries to forget by turning inward, losing track of everything and everyone around him. He reads, studies and tries to absorb Platonic thought. A woman (the conscience of humanity) appears and forces him to confront his past, the horror and the pain of his loss and his feelings of guilt for having survived. Subotnick draws from multiple literary sources to create a contemporary parable, explicitly leaving out references to a specific time or location. Jacob’s Room is commissioned by Kunst aus der Zeit, Bregenzer Festspiele, and soniq performing arts, Berlin in cooperation with the American Academy, Berlin and supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin.
Edition: Performance material

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Inspired by Phaedrus by Plato, Eleni by Nicholas Gage, The Pit and the Trap by Moshe Kohn, The Little School House by Alicia Partnoy and The Holocaust Kingdom by Alexander Donat and Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf. 

Morton Subotnick’s new chamber opera Jacob’s Room is set in the mind of a young man struggling with the loss of family in various worldwide calamities. Jacob tries to forget by turning inward, losing track of everything and everyone around him. He reads, studies and tries to absorb Platonic thought. A woman (the conscience of humanity) appears and forces him to confront his past, the horror and the pain of his loss and his feelings of guilt for having survived. Subotnick draws from multiple literary sources to create a contemporary parable, explicitly leaving out references to a specific time or location. Jacob’s Room is commissioned by Kunst aus der Zeit, Bregenzer Festspiele, and soniq performing arts, Berlin in cooperation with the American Academy, Berlin and supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin.

Orchestral Cast

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More Information

Title:
Jacob's Room: Monodrama
for voice, keyboard, string orchestra and electronics
based on scenes from Morton Subotnick’s chamber opera "Jacob’s Room"
Language:
English
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
2012 (2013)
Duration:
30 ′
World Premiere:
March 11, 2012 · San Francisco, CA (USA)
Davies Symphony Hall
Joan La Barbara, voice; members of the San Francisco Symphony · Conductor: Jeffrey Milarsky


October 11, 2013 · New York, NY (USA)
Peter Jay Sharp Theater
Joan La Barbara, voice; AXIOM Ensemble · Conductor: Jeffrey Milarsky
(world première of the revised version)
Commissioned work :
Commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony with the generous support of the Ralph I. Dorfman Commissioning Fund

Technical Details

Product number:
LSMC 50603
Delivery rights:
Worldwide

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  • Jacob's Room: Monodrama
    Conductor: Jeffrey Milarsky
    October 11, 2013 | New York, NY (United States of America) , Peter Jay Sharp Theater — World Premiere (Revision) (Uraufführung der revidierten Version)
  • Jacob's Room: Monodrama
    Conductor: Jeffrey Milarsky
    March 11, 2012 | San Francisco, CA (United States of America) , Davies Symphony Hall — World Premiere
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