aka “The Parable of the Mirror,”
setting for voice & piano of text based on Hassidic legend,
used by S. Ansky in The Dybbuk
and by Bernard Malamud in Suppose A Wedding;
incorporated into one-act opera based on Malamud, op. 125.
Premiered 3/2/95 as part of A Blitzstein Cabaret,
Medicine Show, NYC; also at NOA Boston convention
symposium on Blitzstein’s Sacco and Vanzetti, 12/2/95
one-act opera (53′) after Scene from a Play
by Bernard Malamud, 4/96
concert premiere 9/2/96 IJAFLI, Suffolk Y, Commack
co-sponsored by LICA, Puffin Foundation,
East End Arts Council-NYFA SOS Grant;
staged premiere 6/1/97 LICA concert at
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Manhattan
for soprano, mezzo, character tenor, high baritone,
male one-liner, piano/orch; publisher: Theodore Presser
as part of trilogy, Tales of Malamud –
intermezzo between Idiots First, op. 37 & Karla, op. 38
or independent work; includes Leon’s Arietta (2’30”)
and “The Rabbi and the Rich Man,” op. 116 (q.v.)
Cast: Ronald Edwards, Lenora Eve/Lucy Sorlucco,
Benjamin Spierman, Janis Sabatino Hills, Joel Ackerman;
directed & conducted from the piano by the composer
videotaped by Helene Williams – soon to be on YouTube