{"id":4784,"date":"2018-02-06T15:45:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T15:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jenniferbellor.com\/?page_id=4784"},"modified":"2022-06-18T01:59:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T01:59:05","slug":"chamber-opera-in-one-act","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jenniferbellor.com\/?page_id=4784","title":{"rendered":"Duffy&#8217;s Cut (2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jenniferbellor.com\/?attachment_id=310\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-310\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-310\" src=\"http:\/\/jenniferbellor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/936028_10101334158851816_1450275208_n-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"936028_10101334158851816_1450275208_n\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jenniferbellor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/936028_10101334158851816_1450275208_n-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jenniferbellor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/936028_10101334158851816_1450275208_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/><strong><em>Duffy&#8217;s Cut<\/em> (2013)<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Libretto by Elizabeth Reeves<\/p>\n<p>Duration: 20 minutes<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/7tp84gsbxfce1kj\/DUFFY%27S%20CUT%20ORCHESTRATED%20SCORE%20-%20Full%20Score.pdf?dl=0\">HERE<\/a> To view PDF of score.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>For an audio recording, please contact info@jenniferbellor.com.<br \/>Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jennifer Bellor: Duffy&#039;s Cut - (Excerpt) - opera\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OB3lpSDnBMA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The original cast featured:<br>Norman Garrett, Malachi Harris (baritone)<br>Soloman Howard, Phillip Duffy (bass)<br>Shantelle Przybolo, Catherine Burns (soprano)<br>Tim Augustin, John Burns (tenor)<br>Patrick O&#8217;Halloran, John Ruddy (tenor)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cflair for full-bodied, operatic sound\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/music\/washington-national-opera-gives-young-writers-a-chance-to-emerge\/2013\/11\/14\/ce73eb46-4d77-11e3-9890-a1e0997fb0c0_story.html?utm_term=.03ddaade2c07\">Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cusing contrasting rhythms and clever harmonies to an intriguing effect\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/susan-dormady-eisenberg\/review-three-mini-operas_b_4280687.html\">Huffington Post<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>CAST<\/em><br>Malachi Harris (baritone)<br>Phillip Duffy (bass)<br>Catherine Burns (soprano)<br>John Burns (tenor)<br>John Ruddy (tenor)<br><em>ENSEMBLE<\/em><br>flute, clarinet\/bass clarinet, french horn, string quartet, piano, percussion<br><em>Duffy&#8217;s Cut<\/em>(2013) was commissioned by the Washington National Opera American Opera Initiative, and was premiered in the Terrace Theatre at the Kennedy Center on November 13, 2013. Her writing was praised as showing a \u201cflair for full-bodied, operatic sound,\u201d (Washington Post), and \u201cusing contrasting rhythms and clever harmonies to an intriguing effect\u201d (Huffington Post).<br>\u201cThe appearance of this fatal malady in our favoured country is calculated to awaken the most serious reflections, and to excite the mind to close self-examination. That is a dispensation permitted to a wise and gracious Providence as a chastisement for the sins of the people, and as a solemn warning to repent and amend their ways,<br>I have not the smallest doubt.\u201d \u2014June 30, 1832; The Friend, a Quaker newspaper<br>\u201cAll were intemperate, and ALL ARE DEAD! The house, or rather hovel, in which they lived with all its contents, was burnt immediately after the bodies were buried.\u201d<br>\u2014September 8, 1832; The National Gazette and Literary Register<br>TIME<br>Late August, 1832.<br>SETTING<br>The work camp of Track Mile 59, known as Duffy\u2019s Cut, in rural Malvern, Pennsylvania. The ground is scarred from the effort of cutting away the hillside and creating a fill, or land-bridge, over the valley below for the Pennsylvania and Columbia Railroad. Some yards away from the worksite, the door of the Irish workers\u2019 abandoned shanty flaps desolately in the late summer breeze. The tools of their labor\u2014a wagon half-filled with dirt, shovels, and pickaxes\u2014as well as the sundry remains of their daily lives\u2014bone pipes, tin cups, empty whiskey bottles\u2014lie scattered, forsaken, over the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duffy&#8217;s Cut (2013) Libretto by Elizabeth Reeves Duration: 20 minutes Click HERE To view PDF of score. For an audio recording, please contact info@jenniferbellor.com.Excerpt: The original cast featured:Norman Garrett, Malachi Harris (baritone)Soloman Howard, Phillip Duffy (bass)Shantelle Przybolo, Catherine Burns (soprano)Tim Augustin, John Burns (tenor)Patrick O&#8217;Halloran, John Ruddy (tenor) \u201cflair for full-bodied, operatic sound\u201d \u2013 Washington &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jenniferbellor.com\/?page_id=4784\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Duffy&#8217;s Cut (2013)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferbellor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferbellor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferbellor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferbellor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferbellor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4784"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferbellor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8919,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferbellor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4784\/revisions\/8919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferbellor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}