Contributions towards the March 9th gala will support NYCO Renaissance and its efforts to return "The People’s Opera” to New York City’s cultural landscape.
Featuring performances by
DavidDaniels
MarkDelavan
PlácidoDomingo
ChristineGoerke
JamesMorris
Fredricavon Stade
Sting
World Premiere
The Waking, a concert aria on the poem of Theodore Roethke, is my gift to the NYCO Renaissance to celebrate its plan to revive NYCO and its
wakingfrom an era of sleep. In rededicating its founding mission, NYCO is waking andgoing where it has to go.The voice of the poem is that of NYCO itself - thePeople's Opera- Julius Rudel, countless great artists and devoted patrons inthe wakingof its 8th decade. It is the voice of the audience, the young, the old and future generations taking lively the air andgoing where they have to go.
The Waking
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.
Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me, so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.
- Theodore Roethke
Event Details
| 6:00PM: | Champagne ReceptionThe Ertegun Atrium |
| 7:00PM: | Gala ConcertRose Theater |
| 8:30PM: | Gala Dinner with ArtistsThe Appel Room |
| 10:00PM: | Dessert ReceptionThe Ertegun Atrium |
LOCATION:
Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Time Warner Center, NYC
ATTIRE:
Festive
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