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Discord-Accord

a cabaret/music-theater

With music by Eric Salzman, William Schimmel and Osvaldo Pugliese

Featuring Laila Salins, mezzo and William Schimmel, accordion

CCO steps out of its box as it presents an engaging evening of new music theater. Distinguished accordionist William Schimmel opens with an amazing version of the “Poet & Peasant” Overture, a set of drinking songs and tangos from Latvia (introduced and performed by Laila Salins; some of the texts are by her father who is a leading contemporary Latvian poet); “Accord” a mini-theater solo for Schimmel in which he wanders through the audience, serenading, flirting, singing, laughing, breaking down and crying; music from the Brecht “Good Person of Szechuan”, also organized as a mini-theater piece; and, finally, a set of those biting, hard-hitting Osvaldo Pugliese tangos, instrumental and vocal, with translations and a running commentary.

The program also features three of New York’s top string players: Machiko Ozawa and Marc Levine, violins, and Leo Grinhauz, cello.

Advance tickets $20

THE SECRET AGENT

by Michael Dellaira

Atelier: New Work-in-Progress

Michael Dellaira Composer

J.D. McClatchy Librettist

Based on Joseph Conrad’s novel The Secret Agent, this new operatic work-in-progress is set in fin-de-siècle London, and hinges on the attempt of a group of anarchists to blow up the Greenwich Observatory–terrorism in its early days!

Tickets $20

includes a  post-performance wine reception