Instrumental music, cartoons, songs, theatre, puppetry, and imagined ballet are quilted together into a narrative on life, loss, and love.
The Gray Cat & The Flounder
16 Bits About Bernadette
“Not only an engaging musical experience
but also a touching one.” Elizabeth Bloom, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“Think Dr. Seuss meets ‘The Fantasticks’.” (Mark Kanny, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Category: concert
- Instrumentation: ensemble and voices
- flute
- clarinet / bass clarinet
- violin
- cello
- percussion (vibes, marimba, glockenspiel, crotales, triangles, wind chimes, finger cymbals, hand gong, bass drum)
- piano
- soprano (sung and spoken)
- light baritone
Status: completed
Duration: 1 hr 5 min
Completed: July 2015
- World Premiere: July 11, 2015
- “The Gray Cat & The Flounder: 16 Bits About Bernadette”
Upcoming Performances: n/a
- Other Notable Performances:
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- 2015/07/11 "The Gray Cat & The Flounder"
- 2015/07/12 "The Gray Cat & The Flounder"
- 2018/07/28 PNME 2018: “The Gray Cat & The Flounder”
Commission: Joseph Newcomer and the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble
Dedication: in memory of Bernadette Callery
Additional Credits: cartoons by Joseph Newcomer; song cycle from music by Stephen Foster; puppet theatre design & construction by Val M. Cox; "Curiosity" by Alastair Reid; video editing by Alexander Galant; story by Kevin Noe & Kieren MacMillan
Recordings: n/a
- Reviews:
- “In this multilayered production, PNME cultivated not only an engaging musical experience but also a touching one.” (Elizabeth Bloom, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
- “Think Dr. Seuss meets ‘The Fantasticks‘.” (Mark Kanny, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Other Links: n/a
