[NEohioPAL] WordStage -a Chamber Music Theater presents "Proust in Love"

[Tim Tavcar]

WordStage – a Chamber Music Theater Presents -  
PROUST IN LOVE ~The Story of Marcel Proust and Reynaldo Hahn

"Everything I have ever done has always been thanks to
Reynaldo." Marcel Proust
By the age of nineteen in 1894, the musical child prodigy,
Reynaldo Hahn, had written many songs about love; however, his
worldly sophistication masked shyness about his own personal
feelings. He had close intimate friendships with women but he
reportedly loved them only at a distance his whole life. 
1894 was
to prove a fateful year for Hahn. At the home of artist Madeleine
Lemaire, he met an aspiring writer three years older than himself.
The writer was the then little-known, "highly strung and snobby"
Marcel Proust. Proust and Hahn shared a love for painting,
literature, and the composer, Frederic Chopin. They became lovers and
often traveled together and collaborated on various projects. One of
those projects, Portraits de Peintres (1896), is a work consisting of
spoken text with piano accompaniment.
Although by the end of 1896, they were no longer lovers, after
their bitterness healed they came together again as loving friends
and mutually supportive colleagues  until Proust's death in 1922,  before the final volumes of his masterpiece  - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - were published.

The text of this WordStage production  has been adapted from the
biography  'Proust in Love' by William C. Carter  as well as from
letters, diaries and written works of Mracel Proust and Reynaldo
Hahn.  Featured performers are Aaron Mucciolo, Tim Collingwood and
Tim Tavcar, and CIM Faculty members, baritone Mark Wanich and pianist Adam
Whiting, who will  perform five of Hahn's romanticChansons and
the music he composed to illustrate Proust's Portraits de Peintres

The performances will take place at WordStage's West and East Side "home" locations :

West Side: Friday, February 8, 2013 – 8:00pm
West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church, 20401 Hilliard Blvd.,
Rocky River 

East Side: 8:00pm – Saturday, February 9, 2013 – 8:00pm
First Unitarian Church, 21600 Shaker Blvd., Shaker Heights 

Reservations are requested, but ticket will be available at the
door.
Ticket are $15.00 general Admission – and WordStage also
maintains a “Pay What  You Can” policy to make its performances
available to anyone interested in attending them. 


For reservations and information call 216-712-6926, visit our web
site at www.wordstagevt.com or email www.wordstagechambermusictheater at gmail.com

(submitted by Tim Tavcar)
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