Two Songs from Silas Marner

8 min.

February 3-5, 2000
Joe’s Pub, The Public Theatre, New York City
Heather Buck, soprano
Greg Hesselink, cello

Commissioned by Sequitur for its Money project at Joe’s Pub, The Public Theatre

Texts by George Eliot

“Elizabeth Farnum sang… deftly, but she was heard to better effect at the end of the program, in Harold Meltzer’s attractive, Neo-Classical setting of excerpts from George Eliot’s ‘Silas Marner.’ Here the cello writing is more picturesque: a rocking figure is meant to suggest the rhythms of weaving on a loom; chordal passages evoke a fog, from which the soprano line rises with an inexorable emotional power.”

• February 3, 4, and 5, 2000: Heather Buck, soprano and Greg Hesselink, violoncello, Sequitur, Joe’s Pub, Public Theatre, New York City (only song 1, at night came his revelry)
• February 18, 2000: Heather Buck, soprano and Greg Hesselink, violoncello, North River Music, Greenwich House, New York (only song 1, at night came his revelry)
• March 16, 2000: Dora Ohrenstein, soprano and Greg Hesselink, violoncello, North River Music, Greenwich House, New York City (only song 1, at night came his revelry)
• October 20, 2000: Mary Nessinger, mezzo-soprano and Madeleine Shapiro, violoncello, Great Hall, Cooper Union, New York City (only song 1, at night came his revelry)
• March 14, 2001: Dora Ohrenstein, soprano and Greg Hesselink, violoncello, Sequitur, Guerrilla Gallery, Toronto (only song 1, at night came his revelry)
• March 15, 2001: Dora Ohrenstein, soprano and Greg Hesselink, violoncello, Sequitur, Slee Concert Hall, The University at Buffalo, New York (only song 1, at night came his revelry)
• November 11, 2001: Mary Nessinger, mezzo-soprano and Madeleine Shapiro, ModernWorks, Sonic Boom 10, Knitting Factory, New York City
• January 28, 2002: Dora Ohrenstein, soprano and Katherine Cherbas, violoncello, counter)induction, Trinity Church, New York City
• November 17, 2002: Judith Kellock, soprano and Greg Hesselink, violoncello, Friends and Enemies of New Music, Christ & St. Stephen’s Church, New York City
• December 8, 2002: Mary Nessinger, mezzo-soprano and Ted Mook, violoncello, The Garden City Chamber Music Society, Garden City, Long Island
• June 26, 2003: Judith Kellock, soprano and Madeleine Shapiro, violoncello, ModernWorks, The Museum of Arts and Design, New York City
• May 20, 2005: Elizabeth Farnum, soprano and Greg Hesselink, violoncello, Locrian Chamber Players, Riverside Church, New York City
• May 27, 2005: Elizabeth Farnum, soprano and Greg Hesselink, violoncello, American Academy in Rome, Italy
• March 3, 2008: Elizabeth Farnum, soprano and Greg Hesselink, violoncello, Sequitur, Merkin Concert Hall, New York City
• April 5, 2010: Mary Nessinger, mezzo-soprano and Greg Hesselink, violoncello, Sequitur, Symphony Space, New York City
• November 20, 2011: Rachel Calloway, mezzo-soprano and Jason Calloway, violoncello, Delaware County Community College, Media, Pennsylvania
• February 10, 11, and 12, 2012: Mary Bonhag, soprano and Claire Bryant, violoncello, Scrag Mountain Music, Vermont
• September 7, 2012: Heather Barnes, soprano and Heather Bewerse, violoncello, Diagenesis Duo, Orlando Public Library, Orlando, Florida
• September 8, 2012: Heather Barnes, soprano and Heather Bewerse, violoncello, Diagenesis Duo, Trinity Presbyterian Church, Satellite Beach, Florida
• September 10, 2012: Heather Barnes, soprano and Heather Bewerse, violoncello, Diagenesis Duo, University of Florida School of Music, Gainesville
• September 12, 2012: Heather Barnes, soprano and Heather Bewerse, violoncello, Diagenesis Duo, Barness Recital Hall, University of South Florida, Tampa
• September 13, 2012: Charlotte Dobbs, soprano and Eric Bartlett, violoncello, CelloFest, CUNY, New York City
• February 17, 2013: Charlotte Dobbs, soprano and Eric Bartlett, violoncello, New York Philharmonic Ensembles, Merkin Concert Hall, New York City
• May 30, 2013: Heather Barnes, soprano and Heather Bewerse, violoncello, Diagenesis Duo, Salem Art Center, Salem, New York
• March 15, 2014: Heather Barnes, soprano and Heather Bewerse, violoncello, Diagenesis Duo, Lewiston Art Center, Lewiston, Montana
• March 22, 2014: Heather Barnes, soprano and Heather Bewerse, violoncello, Diagenesis Duo, University of Montana, Missoula
• September 14, 2014: Megan Schubert, soprano and Amanda Gookin, Resonant Bodies Festival, JACK, Brooklyn, New York
• May 9, 2015: Amy Petrongelli, soprano and Horacio Contreras, violoncello, Khemia Ensemble, Trinity Lutheran Church, Ann Arbor, Michigan
• August 23, 2015: Amy Petrongelli, soprano and Horacio Contreras, violoncello, Khemia Ensemble, National University of Cordoba, Argentina
• August 28, 2015: Amy Petrongelli, soprano and Horacio Contreras, violoncello, Khemia Ensemble, National University of Bogotá, Columbia
• February 14, 2016: Laura Strickling, soprano and Ben Larsen, violoncello, Second Street Sonorities, Second Street Cathedral, New York City
• March 2, 2016: Laura Strickling, soprano and Caroline Stinson, violoncello, Steven Stucky Memorial Concert, National Sawdust, Brooklyn, New York