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Portrait and a Dream (2021), an opera about Jackson Pollock & Lee Krasner
by Brian Petuch
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Audio excerpt - "Mural" from Act 1 of Portrait and a Dream
Lee Krasner - Kendra Berentsen
Jackson Pollock - Brian Giebler
Hans Hofmann, Hans Namuth - Ricardo Rivera
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Commissioned and premiered by Contemporaneous, conducted by David Bloom
This filming is from the premiere on 9/18/21 at Irondale Center in Brooklyn, NY
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Much gratitude to Helen Harrison and the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center for granting use and access to the interviews from Jeffrey Potter's book "To a Violent Grave".
Video filmed and edited by Mary & Christopher Smith at Point of Order Productions
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Direction - Ashley Tata www.ashleytata...
Scenic & Video Design - Magnus Pind magnuspind.com/
Lighting Design - Abigail Hoke-Brady www.hokebradyde...
Costume Design - Márion Talán de la Rosa www.mariontalan...
Associate Video Design - Adam J. Thompson
Production Stage Manager - Dustin Z. West
Assistant Stage Manager - Thomas Giles
Production Manager - Zachary James Ritter
Technical Director - Steven Brenman
Production Interns - Claudia Cangemi, Wendy Kya
Live Sound - Zack O’Brien
Recording Engineer - Charles Mueller
Mastering Engineer - Matt Baltrucki
Produced by Contemporaneous
Flute - Fanny Wyrick-Flax
Oboe - Stuart Breczinski
Clarinet - Madison Greenstone
Saxophone - Daniel Kochersberger
Bassoon - Dirk Wels
Horn - Cameron West
Trumpet - Evan Honse
Trombone - Daniel Linden
Bass Trombone - Owen Caprell
Percussion - Matt Evans, Adam Holmes, Robby Bowen
Keyboard - Paul Kerekes
Piano - Isabelle O'Connell
Harp - Anna Bikales
E Bass - Tristan Kasten-Krause
Violin 1 - Sabrina Tabby
Violin 2 - Finnegan Shanahan
Violin 3 - Nikita Morozov
Violin 4/Viola 2 - Josh Henderson
Viola 1 - Chelsea Wimmer
Cello 1 - Amanda Gookin
Cello 2 - Julia Henderson
Contrabass - Pat Swoboda
Special thanks to Floy & Kurt Berentsen, Linda & Ed Petuch, Antonio Romero, Paul Kerekes, Michael Roberts, Emily Moore, Matt Baltrucki, David Lang, Glenn Whitworth, Morgan Spann, and Jenna Lipman
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To tell about a man’s life by anecdote is swinish - yet history is now beginning to file away those peculiar sentiments that make glamour out of unhappiness, and unhappiness out of art.
With Pollock, we have a double tragedy - both death and a life in the art world came too soon.
Jackson, oh Jackson - we did not know you. Why do we feel it is our fault. Why is it that we make this terrible separation from what a man does and what a man is, from what a man should do, and from what a man can’t do. And how we watched you, El Matador, waiting for the slaughter or the glory.
-Morton Feldman
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