CAUTION: This video contains sequences of flashing lights which may affect viewers with epilepsy and other conditions sensitive to light. This program is offered in collaboration with Carnegie Hall’s festival “Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice”. These pieces—Schoenberg’s “Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte”, Saariaho’s “From the Grammar of Dreams”, and Davies’ “Eight Songs for a Mad King”—each address issues of control and authority, whether based in geopolitical oppression or personal struggle. With Juilliard Drama and music alumni, direction by faculty member Mary Birnbaum, and a dynamic set born out of new technologies designed with Juilliard’s Center for Innovation in the Arts, The Mad King weaves together Juilliard’s diverse resources in a program unlike anything seen before.

This video features the program in its entirety. To view "Eight Songs for a Mad King" excerpted, click here: https://www.juilliard.live/videos/eight-songs-for-a-mad-king

ARNOLD SCHOENBERG 
Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, Op. 41a 
Ana Karneža, Actor 
Roger Shao, First Violin 
Anthony Chan, Second Violin 
Brian Jennings, Viola 
Wil Vanderslice, Cello 
Baron Fenwick, Piano 

KAIJA SAARIAHO 
From the Grammar of Dreams 
Kerrigan Bigelow, Soprano/Electronics 
Music Preparation: David Moody

PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
Eight Songs for a Mad King 
The Sentry
The Country Walk 
The Lady-in-Waiting 
To Be Sung on the Water 
The Phantom Queen 
The Counterfeit Country Dance 
The Review 
Leo Radosavljevic*, Baritone 
Blaire Kim, Violin 
Elisabeth Chang, Cello 
Nikka Gershman, Flute/Piccolo 
Taig Egan, Clarinet 
Stella Perlic*, Percussion/Dulcimer 
Antoinette Cheng, Piano/Harpsichord 

* Juilliard alum

Directed by Mary Birnbaum 

Part of Carnegie Hall’s festival Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice 

Performed and recorded on March 26, 2024 at the Rosemary and Meredith Willson Theater