Krystal Productions is committed to presenting to the public the finest artistic musical and theatrical performances in the world today, specializing in contemporary artistic expression representing eternal artistic and spiritual values and dedicated to challenging the conventions of the dramatic musical theatre. Rather than attempting to impose foreign or radical structures for shock or novelty, Krystal recognizes the organic process of spiritual and artistic evolution and seeks to establish artistic strength and power through a coalescence of evolving consciousness with the traditions and culture of our civilization.
Date : Easter Sunday, April 11, 2004
Location : Weill Hall in Carnegie Hall, NYC
Krystal Classical Productions Presents
Adina Aaron In Recital
in The Best Contemporary American Music
“She moved me as much as any Aida since the young Leontyne Price.... Every note seems to come from the very soul of her being.”
-Gramophone, on the Zefferelli Aida DVD
“Emotionally shattering.”
-JOpera Quarterly
“First-rate Countess with a warm, powerful voice of a distinctly elegant timbre.”
-The Seattle Times
Program:
I. EASTER SONGS, WILLIAM MASELLI
1. The Child 2. Music
3. Heaven
Cello, Claudia Benker
Violin, Eero Lagerstam
Piano, Keiko Halop
II. SONGS ON TEXTS BY LANGSTON HUGHES, RICKY IAN GORDON
1. Stars
2. Harlem Night Song
3. Prayer 4. Litany
5. Love Song for Antonia
6. My People
Piano, Keiko Halop
PAUSE
III. HIGH SUMMER, STEFANIA de KENESSEY
1. High Summer
2. Imperfect Love
3. Love Is
4. On Returning
5. God’s Crime Policy
Cello, Claudia Benker
Percussion, Scott Martin
Piano, Keiko Halop
IV. DREAMS OF LOVE, WILLIAM MASELLI
1. Carry Me Love
2. Let The Future Come
3. Your Soul
4. Lament
5. In Time
6. Hope
7. Wedding Day
Cello, Claudia Benker
Violin, Eero Lagerstam
Piano, Keiko Halop
Date : Friday, April 16, 2004
Location : Weill Hall in Carnegie Hall, NYC
Krystal Classical Productions Presents
Marc Heller In Recital
in The Best Contemporary American Music
“...has a gorgeous tenor and an appealing presence.”
-Howard Kissel, New York Daily News
“The production’s real star was Marc Heller...Mr. Heller’s tenor rang out cleanly and attractively.”
-James A. Oestrich, The New York Times
“High quality voice with comparable acting skill.”
-Peter G. Davis, New York Magazine
Program:
I. SONGS John Musto
Words To Be Spoken
Palm Sunday: Naples
Old Photograph
II. SONGS (From the Song Cycle Dreams Of Love) William Maselli
Your Soul
Wedding Day
III. NEW ENGLAND TIMES AND PLACES Alfred Heller New York City Premiere
The Pasture
A Minor Bird
A Sunset Bird In Winter
Tree at My Window
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The Road not Taken
IV. CANTATA, Confessioni di Sant’Augustini Alfred Heller
(Dedicated to the Baroness Mariuccia Zerilli-Marimó honoring Renato Cardinal Martino) World Premiere
Intermission
V. PRELUDES Alfred Heller World Premiere
The Winter Evening Settles Down
The Morning comes to Consciousness
The Thousand Sordid Images
I am Moved by Fancies That are Curled Around These Images
VI. SONGS John Musto
Nude at the Piano
Witness
San Jose Symphony Reception
Flamenco
VII. ARIAS from the opera Spirit Fire William Maselli
Alfred Heller, piano
John Musto, piano
Members of the SONOS Chamber Orchestra conducted by Erik Ochsner
Date : November 21, 2004
Location : Weill Hall in Carnegie Hall
Krystal Classical Productions Presents
John F. Kennedy: Requiem
Lyric Symphony In Song - William Maselli
Performed By Four Vocal Soloists and Chamber Orchestra conducted by the composer
This performance dedicated to Pietro Georgio Maselli December 17, 1922 - July 25, 1998
Program:
I. See The Sun Rise (Cope, Dowd)
II. Reach For Freedom (Cope, Dowd)
III. The Struggle (Fennell)
IV. Ice And Blackness (Borst)
V. John (Fennell)
VI. The Stone (Borst)
VII. Truth Eternity (Cope)
VIII. Jasmine (Dowd)
IX. Away From Love (Cope)
X. Light And Love (Dowd)
XI. Triumph Into Time (Cope, Fennell)
XII. Immortal Mystery (Borst, Fennell, Dowd, Cope)
XIII. Into Light (Cope, Dowd)
XIV. Creation’s Mystic Light (Cope, Dowd)
XV. Transcendence (Cope)
Marianne Cope, Soprano
Edith Dowd, Contralto
Eric Fennell, Tenor
Aaron Borst, Bass
William Maselli, Conductor
Chamber Orchestra:
Violin: Jennifer Axelson, Vanessa Mollard, Brett Omara- Campbell, Nancy Kuo, Emily Schelstrate, Kate Casella
Viola: Timothy LaCrosse, Glenda Goodman, Zakariah Enikeev
Cello: Poh Joo Tan, Meena Cho, Jane Pae, Elsbeth Poole
Bass: Salima Barday
Flute: Elizabeth Janzen
English Horn Shirley Chang
Clarinet: Kliment Krylovsky
Bassoon: Laura Wenniger
French Horn: Rachel Dreyman
Trumpet: Suresh Singaratnam
Trombone: John McClave
Tympani: Michael Israelievitch
Date : February 6, 2005
Location : Weill Hall in Carnegie Hall
Krystal Classical Productions Presents
John F. Kennedy: Requiem
Lyric Symphony In Song - William Maselli
STARRING IN HER NEW YORK CITY DEBUT,
BRILLIANT DRAMATIC SOPRANO MIRJAM TOLA
CONDUCTED BY THE COMPOSER
WILLIAM MASELLI
FEATURING TENOR GREGORY MERCER, BASS ERIC JORDAN, MEGAN WESTON SOPRANO
This performance dedicated to Agim Tola
January 24 ,1943 --- October 9, 2003
Program:
I. See The Sun Rise (Weston, Tola)
II. Reach For Freedom (Weston, Tola)
III. The Struggle (Mercer)
IV. Ice And Blackness (Jordan)
V. John (Mercer)
VI. The Stone (Jordan)
VII. Truth Eternity (Weston)
VIII. Jasmine (Tola)
IX. Away From Love (Weston)
X. Light And Love (Tola)
XI. Triumph Into Time (Weston, Mercer)
XII. Immortal Mystery (Jordan, Mercer, Tola, Weston)
XIII. Into Light (Weston, Tola)
XIV. Creation’s Mystic Light (Weston, Tola)
XV. Transcendence (Weston)
Megan Weston, Soprano
Mirjam Tola, Soprano
Gregory Mercer, Tenor
Eric Jordan, Bass
William Maselli, Conductor
Chamber Orchestra:
Violin 1: Anthony Papandrea, Vanessa Mollard, Rachel Gleicher
Violin 2: Emily Schelstrate, Cheryl Szcepkowski, David Lisker
Viola: Timothy LaCrosse, Hanna Hens-Piazza
Cello: Umberto Clerici, Meena Cho, Bernard Augustin
Bass: Salima Barday
Flute: Julie Averill
English Horn: Sarah Loveland
Clarinet: Eileen Kelly
Bassoon: Rachel Gill
French Horn: Kristin Mozeiko
Trumpet: Suresh Singaratnam
Trombone: Michael Boscarino
Tympani: Eric Roberts
Date : February 8, 2005
Location : Weill Hall in Carnegie Hall, NYC
Krystal Classical Productions Presents
Vocal Music of William Maselli
including world premiere of song cycle "Flowers," starring bass Kevin Burdette; Dreams of Love, song cycle featuring Mirjam Tola, Jennifer Brenna-Hondorp, and Megan Weston; Easter Songs, song cycle featuring Mirjam Tola; and selections from the John F Kennedy:Requiem and the opera Spirit Fire, featuring Ms. Tola, Ms Weston, and tenor Greg Mercer; with chamber orchestra conducted by Maselli, featuring cellist Umberto Clerici.
Program:
PRELUDE Angel
Olga Andronikova, mezzo-soprano
I. DREAMS OF LOVE (Song Cycle for voice, piano, cello, violin) Carry Me Love (Tola) Let The Future Come (Brennan-Hondorp) Your Soul (Brennan-Hondorp) Lament (Tola) In Time (Weston) Hope (Brennan-Hondorp) Wedding Day (Weston)
Jennifer Breannan-Hondorp, soprano
Megan Weston, soprano
Mirjam Tola, soprano
Umberto Clerici, cello
Emily Schelstrate, violin
Kathleen Tagg, piano
III. FLOWERS (Song Cycle for voice, cello, english horn, violin, viola, french horn) Blue Flower Sensuous Meadow The Beauty Of My Life Flower Of Love In The Light Of The Morning Flower In Starlight(My Dear Stars!)
Kevin Burdette, bass
Umberto Clerici, cello
Sarah Loveland, english horn
Emily Schelstrate, violin
Timothy LaCrosse, viola
Kristin Mozeiko, french horn
Date : November 22, 2005
Location : Society for Ethical Culture's Concert Hall, NYC
Krystal Classical Productions Presents
John F. Kennedy: Requiem
Lyric Symphony In Song - William Maselli
MEGAN WESTON, SOPRANO
CONDUCTED BY THE COMPOSER
WILLIAM MASELLI
EDITH DOWD, CONTRALTO; ERIC FENNELL, TENOR; AARON BORST, BASS
Program:
I. See The Sun Rise (Weston, Dowd)
II. Reach For Freedom (Weston, Dowd)
III. The Struggle (Fennell)
IV. Ice And Blackness (Borst)
V. John (Fennell)
VI. The Stone (Borst)
VII. Truth Eternity (Weston)
VIII. Jasmine (Dowd)
IX. Away From Love (Weston)
X. Light And Love (Dowd)
XI. Triumph Into Time (Weston, Fennell)
XII. Immortal Mystery (Borst, Fennell, Dowd, Weston)
XIII. Into Light (Cope, Dowd)
XIV. Creation’s Mystic Light (Weston, Dowd)
XV. Transcendence (Weston)
Megan Weston, Soprano
Edith Dowd, Contralto
Eric Fennell, Tenor
Aaron Borst, Bass
William Maselli, Conductor
Chamber Orchestra:
Violin: Amy Schroeder, Emily Schelstrate
Viola: Zakaria Enikeev
Cello: Meena Cho, Morgen Johnson
Bass: Mana Toshio
French Horn: Kristin Mozeiko
English Horn: Sarah Loveland
Flute: Elizabeth Jantzen
Trombone: Michael Boscarino
Bassoon: Anthony Georgeson
Clarinet: Kliment Krylovsky
Date : Thursday, December 6, 2007
Location : Weill Hall in Carnegie Hall, NYC
Krystal Productions and Leopoldo Mucci Present
Tiffany Abban In Recital
with Jonathan Kelly, piano
Program:
Ch'io mi scordi di te? K. 505 W. A. Mozart (1756-1791)
Zueignung R. Strauss (1864-1949) Die Zeitlose
Die Nache
Morgen!
Cäcilie
La Regata VenezianaG. Rossini (1792-1868) Anzoleta avanti la regata Anzoleta co passa la regata Anzoleta doppo la regata
INTERMISSION
Zigeunerlieder J. Brahms (1833-1897) He, Ziguener, greife in die Saiten ein Hochgetümte Rimaflut
Wißt ihr, wann mein Kindchen Lieber Gott, du weißt, wie oft bereut ich hab' Brauner Bursche führt zum Tanze
Röslein dreie in der Reihe blüh'n so rot
Kommt dire manchmal in den Sinn
Rote Abendwolken zieh'n am Firmament
Les TroyensH. Berlioz (1803-1869) Ah! Je vais mourir...Adieu fière cité
The Daisies S. Barber (1910 - 1981)
Sleep Now
Nuvoletta
sure on this shining night
Date : Friday, May 22, 2009
Location : Weill Hall in Carnegie Hall, NYC
Anna-Kristiina Kaappola, Soprano, In Recital with Mika Rännäli, Piano
in a special performance including World Premiere Song Cycles by Mika Rännäli and William Maselli
Program:
Kottarainen (The Thrush) Oskar Merikanto En slända (The Dragonfly) Jean Sibelius Oravan Jäljillä (On the Tracks of a Squirrel) Erkki Melartin
Subway Sonnets, A Song Cycle to Poems Collected from the NYC Subway Mika Rännäli World Premiere
Omnia tempus habent (1972, Ecclesiastes 3: 1-4, 7, 5-6, 8-9) Arne Mellnäs A Dream Op. 8 Nr. 5 Sergei Rachmaninoff How fair this spot! Op. 21 Nr. 7
Oh, never sing to me again Op. 4 Nr. 4
Song Cycle on Finnish Poems in English Translation William Maselli World Premiere
I strolled through an open field (Theodore Roethke) Ned Rorem
The serpent (Theodore Roethke)
INTERMISSION
Lia's aria (L'enfant prodigue)Claude Debussy
La seduzione (Luigi Balestra) Giuseppe Verdi Stornello (nn)
Tres poemas Op 81 (Bécquer) Joaquin Turina
Olas gigantes qie os rompeis bramando
Tu pupila es azul
Besa el Aura que gime blandamente
4 letzte Lieder Richard Strauss
Beim Schlafengehen (Hesse)
Frühling (Hesse)
September (Hesse)
Im Abendrot (Eichendorf)
Date: Sat. February 6, 2010, 8:30 PM
Location : Weill Hall in Carnegie Hall, NYC
Alessandra Marc is one of the greatest artists of our time. Her voice, sometimes described as the very best in the world, joined with a musicality that is legendary, have in combination created an artistic legacy unequalled in our history. She has triumphed as Aida and Turandot at the Metropolitan Opera, as well as at Covent Garden, La Scala, Rome, Vienna, and Berlin; and has also sang Sieglinde, Brunnhilde, Ariadne, Norma, Salome, and other roles, in the leading opera houses of the world.
Alessandra Marc has created landmark recordings with the very best in the classical music world, including a magnificent recording of the Verdi Requiem under Daniel Barenboim with Placido Domingo and Waltraud Meier with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Elektra with the Vienna Philharmionic under Sinopoli with Deborah Voight, Siegfried Jerusalem, and Samuel Ramey; Salome under Donald Runnicles; the Beethoven Ninth under Barenboim with Chicago,; Sieglinde in Walkure under Dohnanyi; the Lyrische Symphony by Zemlinsky under Riccardo Chailly with the Royal Concertgebouw; and numerous others.
Her return to the stage in New York City, at Weill Hall in legendary Carnegie Hall, February 6, 2010, marks a milestone in the history of classical music performance. Whether soaring grandly as the embittered Empress in Turandot or gently caressing the highest peaks of musical brilliance in Richard Stauss’ Four Last Songs, or embodying the passion of Verdi’s Pace Pace Mio Dio, Alessandra Marc defines the highest achievements in Musical Art.
Barbara Martinez
Flamenco & Latin Jazz
Date: Sat. February 27, 2010, 8:30 PM
Location : Weill Hall in Carnegie Hall, NYC
Bárbara Martínez has been performing since childhood and currently sings and dances as a soloist, heading her own music group that fuses flamenco with Latin Jazz and world music. A longtime member of several noted flamenco dance companies and The Metropolitan Opera, Bárbara was born in Venezuela to a family of artists, including icons Libertad Lamarque and Morenita Rey. Growing up in New York City, she spent her youth performing in opera, off-Broadway and film. She currently sings with Pasión y Arte Flamenco Company, Arts Flamenco, Edwin Aparicio Flamenco Company, Spirit of Sepharad and dances with The Oscar Valero Company. She has also sung for Pilar Rioja at El Repertorio Español and danced as a soloist in festivals at Lincoln Center, Town Hall and Symphony Space.
Bárbara, who has had a long and rich experience with music and theater since childhood, has spent recent years focusing on flamenco cante in all its forms, from the cante jondo to the more popular contemporary styles of rumba and bulerias. She excited to be working on a solo project, leading a group of talented musicians from all over the world in an eclectic new repertoire that includes flamenco, Brazilian, jazz and funk. She is preparing a debut album with some of these songs, as well as originals. Bárbara performs with her trio on the first Monday of every month at Favela Cubana in the West Village and can also be seen in various weekly venues in New York City.
She can be heard singing in Arabic, Ladino and Persian in Spirit of Sepharad/Caravan with Gerard Edery and acclaimed musicians Glen Velez and Ara Djinkan, among others. She can also be seen with Plural, the creation of Venezuelan Grammy-nominated composer Gonzalo Grau, with solo flamenco guitarist Juanito Pascual (and oon his latest CD), and with the Alex Conde Quintet. Bárbara is also a founding member of Fortvna Productions, which has staged a trilogy of musical plays by Amelia Arenas: Hell, Confessions and Dreams based on the writings of Dante Alighieri, St. Augustine and Sigmund Freud.
Bárbara has had the pleasure of working with artists such as Marco de Ana, Triana Bautista, La Conja, Pedro Cortés, El Costi, Alfonso Cid, Ara Djinkan, Gonzalo Grau, Jayme Hadaad, Antonio Hidalgo, Carmen LaSalao, Luis Miguel Manzano, La Meira, Maria Montilla, José Moreno, Jorge Navarro, Raul Ortega, La Repompa, Nino de los Reyes, Ruben El Viejo, Pilar Rioja, Stan Strickland, Nelida Tirado, Grammy-winner flutist Dave Valentine, Luis Vargas and Glen Velez to name a few. She also recently had the honor of teaching master classes for The Cirque du Soleil and New England Conservatory.
In 2008, Bárbara received a scholarship from the famed Cristina Heeren Foundation in Seville, Spain for advanced study in flamenco singing. She has also studied jazz vocal technique and theory with Barry Harris, acting at The New York Actor's Conservatory and early music education (Kodály) at New York University. Bárbara is an Honors graduate of Brown University (Class of 1998), where she doubled up on Comparative Literature and Visual Arts.
Marianni Ebert
Rhythms & Sounds
of Brazil
Legendary Performer in Carnegie Debut
Date: Friday, April 2, 2010, 8:30 PM
Location : Weill Hall in Carnegie Hall, NYC
Marianni Ebert is one of the top performers of Brazilian music in New York City over the last fifteen years. An accomplished dancer, actor, and composer, Marianni has been thrilling audiences in New York and around the world with her enchanting renditions of a broad array of Brazilian Rhythms and Sounds. Marianni has been holding court in Zinc Bar in Greenwich Village since 1995, and at the iconic Cafe Wha in the
Village since 1996. Born in Rio and influenced by the songs of her father and the sensations of the sea and the sun, Marianni toured the entire country of Brazil, and was thereby exposed to the richest and greatest variety of Brazilian rhythms and melody. All this music came with her when she moved to New York in 1994, and has since intertwined with new influences in the thriving New York City World Music culture.
This concert in the greatest music venue in the world, Weill Hall in Carnegie Hall, affords Marianni and her audience a rare opportunity to experience the Rhythms And Sounds Of Brazil in an atmosphere like no
other.
"I was born in Rio. I grew up loving the sun, the ocean, the forest, the morning breeze, the night breeze, and the warmth. Every morning my Dad use to drive me to school singing songs that he was making up right there to make me happy. It was a way to incentives my creativity.
I was always surrounded by love. Music was part of my life. Everything that I was feeling or doing had to have a soundtrack.
I had the opportunity to tour Brazil, I mean, all Brazil, with my theatre company. Than I was introduced “live” to all the richest brazilian rhythms that you can imagine! I was fascinated by all the variety of rhythms, that I already knew, but to be able to experience them live was a bomb!!!
When I moved to NYC I was fascinated and still am about the creativity power that rests here. The amazing musicians from everywhere in the world that come here to share experiences. I started to sing at the Zinc Bar and was amazed by all the musicians who stop by to jam. Then I felt that I want to have on my music different elements from different cultures but mixed with my Brazilian roots. Like NYC is a “melting pot” for me.
All these experiences made me compose songs with different rhythms, because….I love all of them!!!!" -- Marianni Ebert
Enjoy the rhythms and sounds of Brazil!!!!
Rising Opera Star, Soprano
Crystallia Spilianaki
Arias, Art Songs, Songs of Greece
Date: Friday May 7, 2010 8:30 PM
Location : Weill Hall in Carnegie Hall, NYC
On a theme of loss - From Myth to Art
Crystallia Spilianaki’s operatic career began in the US only a few years ago. She left her country in search of artistic excellence and challenge. The road to Ithaca was long and adventurous, quite like Kavafi’s poem, but like all Greeks, ancient and modern, Crystallia’s perseverance led her through Poseidon’s fierce waters and into her current success. Many roles followed: Alice Ford in Falstaff, Giorgetta in Il Tabarro, Nedda in I Pagliacci, Mimi in La Boheme and the main and only character in Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine, to mention only a few.
But this recital is something completely different. It is based on Greek mythology and the idea of loss. Loss of a person, a feeling, a country, an object, loss of human values or anything that becomes permanently engraved in our souls and our consciousness after it is gone.
Moreover, this recital explores the various ramifications of loss in Art, starting the journey with a Greek myth, and sailing through the poetry of Shakespeare, Ruckert, Negri, Louys, composed as Art Songs by Korngold, Respighi, Debussy, Mahler and others.
