Percussionist

Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea is an opera by Paola Prestini, Royce Vavrek and Karmina Šilec that presents a dual track of storytelling by combining the Hemingway text with original portraits of quotidian life to create a look at aging, legacy, and our relationship to oceans. The work includes longtime collaborators/muses of Prestini’s including Jeffrey Zeigler as the featured cellist. The cast includes a choir, and brings to life the seminal characters: Santiago, Manolin, and the wife, recast as La Virgen del Cobre, a goddess in Santería, the Afro-Caribbean faith, who was found floating on a wooden board off the coast of eastern Cuba in 1628. Themes of baseball, ecology, religion, and economy paint a conflict between progress and tradition, craft passion and exploitation, ultimately shedding contemporary perspectives on this timeless tale.

EPSG:4326

The Old Man and the Sea

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

PSK’s second Mixtape concert for the academic year, in which various artists and ensembles perform new works by Princeton University graduate student composers. New works by Ellie Cherry, Bobby Ge, Travis Laplante, James Moore, and Gemma Peacocke.

Shayna Dunkelman

Percussionist

Events

Past events

Feb 10, 2024

The Old Man and the Sea · Beth Morrison Projects

Nov 14, 2023

Princeton Sound Kitchen Presents Mixtape 2 · Princeton University Music Department

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