Bremerton Symphony Chamber Players present a whimsical performance of "The Demise of my Singing Canary" and a premier of an original piece by Music Director Alan Futterman, entitled "Haiku/Tanka".
The program opens with the premier of “Haiku/Tanka” written by Bremerton Symphony Orchestra Music Director Alan Futterman, featuring soprano Yoshiko Yamamoto accompanied by an ensemble of 21 musicians. Ms. Yamamoto has appeared many times with Bremerton Symphony, including as the title character in our brief foray into Puccini’s last opera, Turandot. The work was created from four Japanese poems, the earliest by Harumichi no Tsuraki (deceased in the year 920) and the latest by Kobayaski Issa (1763-1828).
In the humorous “Demise of my Singing Canary,” Bremerton Symphony Chorale Director LeeAnne Campos sings about Baroque composer George Philipp Telemann returning home one day to find that his fickle, furry, famished feline had feasted on his favorite fowl; his most beloved, constantly crooning canary. How to punish the cat? Our narrator gets his own dander up in this tragi-comic cantata, produced in Hamburg in about 1737.
