Daron returns to Yakima to help the Seasons Performance Hall celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Seasons Fall Festival with a Hagen musical and filmic double feature:
Chaplin Symphony, performed live by Aaron Hirsch and the Seasons Festival Chamber Orchestra to a screening of Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights
Catered Dinner, during which Seasons Director Pat Strosahl and Fall Festival Artistic Director Hagen will discuss the festival’s legacy and Hagen’s scores for the Chaplin film and the Orson Welles-inspired opera film Orson Rehearsed.
Orson Rehearsed, Washington screened premiere
Photo: Angeline Townsend.
Photo: Elliott Mandel
The Seasons Performance Hall.
About the Seasons Performance Hall
Purchased in 2005 from the Church of Christ Scientist and re-purposed as a music venue, today nonThe Seasons Performance Hall serves many different constituencies and audiences in Yakima — classical and jazz performances, indie, rock, gospel, soul, folk, and many other genres of music. Through attentive listening to our community, we have become Yakima's "second living room." We are attentive to each customer's experience, knowing that it's not just music that people come for, but camaraderie, good food, beverages, and a unique experience. In these difficult moments, our guiding light stands clear: Learn more here.
About the Chaplin Symphony
A Chaplin Symphony serves as both a companion in live performance to Chaplin’s City Lights and as a concert symphony. The work is in three movements, and consists of several themes and motives developed and intertwined in the fashion beloved of every working opera composer—there’s a tender pavane for the Flower Girl, of course; a bittersweet shuffle for the Tramp, a sexy, dissolute tango for the Plutocrat, and so forth. But the interplay of musical ideas is more akin to the way Strauss manipulated the ideas in the Symphonia Domestica. As Strauss wove in themes from his earlier works to provide context, autobiographical clues, and narrative depth, I wove together the strands of themes from my previous Chaplin scores with the new ones specific to this one. Learn more here.
About Orson Rehearsed
Orson Rehearsed is a multi-media opera film that explores the psychological, emotional, and spiritual journey taken by the American actor, polymath, and creator of Citizen Kane Orson Welles, as he finds himself on the threshold between life and death. During its sixty-minutes, memories of Welles as a wunderkind and in his swashbuckling prime are brought to life, as well as successes and failures both real and imagined, with the consolation of a life fully lived. Fusing live players with pre-recorded sounds and effects, the film version of Orson Rehearsed has been a multiple award-winner at festivals in the US, Europe and beyond. Learn more here.