WHAT'S NEW 2024-25

ANNOUNCING:

The complete performing script of MUSE of FIRE will published next year by DelGatto Press. The edition will feature copious annotations, critiques and appreciations from professionals, and will feature an extensive consideration of the play written by the great American pianist, conductor and pedagogue, Lorin Hollander. Details soon.


2025 ANNIVESARY:

2025 marks the 30th anniversary of the death of Charles Bruck at the Monteux School in Hancock, Maine and the 20th anniversary of the premiere of MUSE of FIRE. During the year, Maestro Katz is pleased to offer dramatic readings of the play in conjunction with its publication, scheduled for spring 2025. Please contact him now to arrange a visit for your audience. Dates available through fall 2025.

 

PERFORMANCE HISTORY:

PRIVATE PERFORMANCE: MUSE of FIRE at the Conductors Retreat at Medomak, Washington, ME. Performance at the request of Maestro Kenneth Kiesler. (This is David's third appearance in MUSE of FIRE at the unique conducting school near Camden.)

COMMAND PERFORMANCE: MUSE of FIRE for the University of Michigan School of Music, Britton Recital Hall.

MUSE of FIRE returns to MICHIGAN, performance sponsored by HILLSDALE COLLEGE, Hillsdale, MI.

OHIO DEBUT of MUSE of FIRE, performance sponsored by Malone University, Canton, Ohio.

WISCONSIN DEBUT of MUSE of FIRE, performance sponsored by the Oconomowoc Chamber Orchestra, Oconomowoc, WI.

MUSE of FIRE returns to KENTUCKY: performance sponsored by the Centre College Music Department, Danville, KY.

MUSE of FIRE returns to MICHIGAN: performance sponsored by Adrian College in cooperation with the Adrian Symphony Orchestra, Adrian, MI.

NEW JERSEY DEBUT of MUSE of FIRE, performance sponsored by the Garden State Philharmonic

MORE RECENT PERFORMANCES


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"...the maestro instructs his students with the intensity of  Marine Corps drill sergeant preparing recruits for battle..."—Citizen News

 

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS & THANKS

 

Paraphrase of a line from the libretto of Death in Venice, opera by Benjamin Britten, text by Myfawnwy Piper.

Paraphrase of the words spoken by Mr. Chris Frosheiser, in memory of his son, Kurt Frosheiser, PV2, U.S. Army.

A Survivor from Warsaw, text and music by Arnold Schoenberg, used by permission of Belmont Music, copyright holder.

The playwright offers thanks, in absentia, to my dear friend, Charles Nelson Reilly, to Ruth Draper, Spalding Gray, Uta Hagen, Abe Burrows and the "Beloved Celestials", for their shining example, always to Julie Harris, and to Diane Kern.


"We never know how high we are Till we are called to rise.” —Emily Dickinson