: DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX

an eco-oratorio by Nathan J. Stumpff
February 9th and 10th, 2001 8pm Alumnae Hall

Poster by Colin Hartnett.
Click on image to enlarge (pdf file).

Overture*

Troy Chang: solo cello • Nathan Stumpff: guitar/voice

Act 1 (of 1)

Emily Joy Schiff-Glenn: The Once-Ler (soprano) • Frederick Jodry: The Lorax (baritone) • Courtney Naliboff: The Narrator (soprano) • Thomas Jerde: flute • Dan Restuccia: clarinet/bass clarinet • Ailene Kane: bassoon • Sarah Bowman: horn• Benjamin Asriel: trumpet • Ashton Allan: trombone • Colin Hartnett: percussion • Stephanie Krejcarek: violin • Juliana Periera, Jen Schwartzman: viola • Troy Chang: cello • Nathan Stumpff: conductor

The Blue Suit Bar-ba-loots

Nancy Rosenberg: vocals • Daniel Fiori: piano • Stephen Canon: tenor sax

Brown New Music: set construction

Colin Hartnett: poster

Stephen Canon: slides

*John Prine’s Paradise used without permission, but with the deepest respect and best of intentions.

composer biography

Nathan J. Stumpff ('02) concentrated in Music at Brown University.  In spring of 2000, Nathan collaborated with choreographer Lauren Hale ('02) on opening and upward, a song cycle for chorus and chamber ensemble based on texts by e.e. cummings, performed by the Brown University Chamber Chorus, directed by Frederick Jodry, at the Spring Dance Concert in Stuart Theater.  At Brown he has studied with Elaine Bearer and Gerald Shapiro, and in 1999 won the Margery MacColl Award for Musical Excellence. A graduate of Boston University Tanglewood Institute-Young Composers program, he studied with Dr. Richard Cornell and has participated in master classes with Sophia Gubaidulina, Lukas Foss and David Lang among others.