Ice Cream – COR

OVERVIEW

Title: Ice Cream
Composer: Benton Roark
Librettist: Liza Balkan
Commissioned By: Tapestry Opera's Composer-Librettist Laboratory
Language: English
Producer: Tapestry Opera
Run Time: 8
Roles:

Role	Voice Type	Range ?	Character Description
Jane	middle-high	middle of performer's range/B3-D#4	A mother
Chris	middle	middle of performer's range/D#3-D#4	Her son

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Orchestration: Percussion, Piano

SYNOPSIS

Content warning: illness, memory loss

A mother and son have dinner. The mother is suffering from Alzheimer’s, and her son has increasing difficulty coping with that fact.

MUSIC DESCRIPTION

A sparse composition anchored by occasional piano chords and the ever-present sound of a ticking clock. Using mostly spoken (rather than fully sung) vocal lines, a brief moment of dissonant conflict breaks out in an otherwise agonizingly minimalist scene, as a mother with dementia and her caregiver son both struggle with loss.

SCORES FOR PURCHASE

Piano Vocal Scores:

Ice Cream – Piano Vocal Score

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Libretto:

Ice Cream – Libretto

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Arias & Excerpts:

Ice Cream - Ice Cream

A mother and son have dinner. The mother is suffering from Alzheimer’s, and her son has increasing difficulty coping with that fact.

Character	Voice Type	Range ?
Chris	middle-high	middle of character's range/B3-D#4
Jane	middle	middle of character's range/D#3-D#4

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PREMIERE PRODUCTION INFORMATION

Premiere Production: Tapestry Briefs 2012, September 21-23, 2012 at Tapestry Opera's Ernest Balmer Studio, Toronto, ON
Producers: Tapestry Opera
Cast:

Role	Name
Jane	Andrea Ludwig
Chris	Keith Klassen

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Premiere Production Team:

Role	Name
Director	Michael Hidetoshi Mori
Music Director	Dr. Christopher Foley
Music Director	Jennifer Tung
Lighting Designer	Davida Tkach
Stage Manager	Lesley Abarquez Bradley
Artistic Director	Wayne Strongman
LibLab Dramaturg	Michael Patrick Albano

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