March 2010
Choral trilogy by Michael Shaieb based on three settings of text adapted from plays by Tony Kushner.
- It Is Very Simple
Text adapted from Homebody/Kabul, Act III, Scene 1. - There Is A Little House In Heaven
Text adapted from Hydriotaphia, Act I: Contemptus Mundi - I Want More Life
Text adapted from Angels in America: Perestroika, Scene 5
Commissioned by the Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus, Dr. Stan Hill, Artistic Director, in part for the Guthrie Theater Tony Kushner Celebration, April 2009.
Made possible through the generosity of Jeffrey D. Bores and Michael Hawkins.
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Credits
History
"A Night At Northrop" concert
Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus
Carlson Family Stage
Northrop, University of Minnesota Campus
Minneapolis, MN
April 2, 2016
"When I Knew" concert
Des Moines Gay Men’s Chorus
“I Want More Life”
First Unitarian Church
Des Moines, IA
GALA 2012 Concert Block
San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus
“I Want More Life”
Ellie Caulkins Opera House
Denver, CO
March 27, 2010
World Premiere
Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus
“The Kushner Trilogy”
Tedd Mann Hall, University of Minnesota Campus
Minneapolis, MN
World Premiere
Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus
“I Want More Life”
Kick-Off to Kushner event
Guthrie Theater
Minneapolis, MN
News
"Trilogy" to be premiered at upcoming TC-GMC concert
This March, the Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus will premiere my newest choral work, The Kushner Trilogy – comprised of three settings of texts by Tony Kushner. The last of the three movements, “I Want More Life”, was premiered April 2009 by the TC-GMC in conjunction with the Guthrie Theatre’s Tony Kushner Festival launch.
Photos of "I Want More Life" premiere at the Guthrie
Photos from today’s “Kick-off To Kushner” launch event at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis:
Guthrie's Kushner Festival launch event to feature Mike's newest choral work
Mike’s newest choral work, The Kushner Trilogy, commissioned by Dr. Stan Hill and the Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus and with text from Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America: Perestroika”, will premiere in Minneapolis on April 18 at the Guthrie Theater’s free “Kick-Off To Kushner” event.
Where to find us in '09 (and a 2008 wrap-up)
2008 ended with the Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus premiere of Mike’s oratorio Through A Glass, Darkly being cited for Outstanding Achievement in Opera by MN’s Lavender Magazine (Thanks! But…opera?). At least five more choruses around the country have expressed interest in staging their own concert productions in the near-future.