{"id":5738,"date":"2011-01-24T16:52:08","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T00:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=5738"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:35:48","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:35:48","slug":"car-man-suite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/24\/car-man-suite\/","title":{"rendered":"Car Man Suite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, in addition to the Higdon <em>Percussion Concerto<\/em>, we&#8217;re doing Rodion Shchedrin&#8217;s remarkable arrangement of a suite from Bizet&#8217;s opera <em>Carmen<\/em> for strings and percussion. \u00a0Instruments take up the vocal lines in addition to the full complement of orchestral lines, so the strings and percussion do find themselves very busy. \u00a0The arrangement was made for a ballet set by the Cuban choreographer Alberto Alonso and premiered in Moscow in 1967 (hence, the <em>Cuban Overture<\/em> of Gershwin on this same program!). \u00a0It includes two additional bits of other works of Bizet: his famous <em>farandole <\/em>from the Arlisienne Suite, and the <em>Danse boh\u00e9mienne<\/em> from his opera <em>La jolie fille de Perth<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Other choreographers have taken up Carmen, among the most noteworthy being the Enlishman Matthew Bourne (who famously set <em>Swan Lake<\/em> for two male leads) in a version called <em>Car Man<\/em>. \u00a0Here&#8217;s a taste:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/g3DxqEuEd9o\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, in addition to the Higdon Percussion Concerto, we&#8217;re doing Rodion Shchedrin&#8217;s remarkable arrangement of a suite from Bizet&#8217;s opera Carmen for strings and percussion. \u00a0Instruments take up the vocal lines in addition to the full complement of orchestral lines, so the strings and percussion do find themselves very busy. \u00a0The arrangement was made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1335,2],"tags":[2509,2506,2507,2510,2508],"class_list":["post-5738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dance","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-alberto-alonso","tag-bizet","tag-carmen","tag-matthew-bourne","tag-rodion-shchedrin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1uy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5756,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/31\/percussion-fest\/","url_meta":{"origin":5738,"position":0},"title":"percussion fest","author":"Charles Noble","date":"January 31, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"This past weekend's concerts were built around pieces that had a very good amount of percussion in them, including the centerpiece of the concert, Jennifer Higdon's Percussion Concerto, with the Scottish percussion soloist Colin Currie. 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