Morton Subotnick (1933)

Jacob's Room (2012)

monodrama for voice, keyboard, string orchestra and electronics, from the opera

electronic work

  • General information
    • Composition date: 2012
      Revision dates: 2013
    • Duration: 30 mn
    • Publisher: Schott
    • Commission: San Francisco Symphony
    • Libretto (details, author):

      Morton Subotnick, inspiré de Phèdre de Platon, Eleni de Nicholas Gage, The Pit and the Trap de Moshe Kohn, The Little School: Tales of Disappearance and Survival d’Alicia Partnoy, The Holocaust Kingdom: A Memoir d’Alexander Donat et Jacob’s Room de Virginia Woolf

Detailed formation
  • soloist: unspecified soloist voice
  • electronic/MIDI keyboard/synthesizer, 2 violins, 2 second violins, 3 violas, 3 cellos, 2 double basses

Premiere information

  • Date: 11 March 2012
    Location:

    Etats-Unis, San Francisco, Davies Symphony Hall


    Performers:

    Joan La Barbara, voix ; membres du San Francisco Symphony ; Jeffrey Milarsky, direction

  • Date: 11 October 2013
    Location:

    version révisée : Etats-Unis, New York, Peter Jay Sharp Theater


    Performers:

    Joan La Barbara, voix ; AXIOM Ensemble ; Jeffrey Milarsky, direction

Information on the electronics
Electronic device: dispositif électronique non spécifié