By Mike Greife,
November 9, 2015
WARRENSBURG, MO – The Performing Arts Series and the Department of Music at the University
of Central Missouri will present a world premiere performance of Soldier’s Tale/Devil’s
Tale at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 16 in Hart Recital Hall.
The concert will bring together musicians from the Department of Music faculty and
the Kansas City Symphony, with dramatic and dance performance by faculty and students
from the UCM Department of Theatre and Dance.
The evening will pair the classic dramatic work Histoire du Soldat (The Soldier’s
Tale) with the modernsequel, The Devil’s Tale. Soldier’s Tale, composed in 1916 by
Igor Stravinsky, is a theatrical work conceived around the writings of C.F. Ramuz
and based on a Russian folk tale of a soldier who trades his violin to the devil in
return for unlimited financial gain.
Devil’s Tale was written in 2013 for the same performing forces by American composer
James Stephenson as an ambitious sequel to Stravinsky’s famous work, weaving the story
from the point at which the original left off and circling back to the point at which
the entire adventure began.
Scott Lubaroff, chair of the Department of Music and director of bands, will conduct
the ensemble, and John Wilson, chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance, will
perform the narrated and dramatic parts.
Tickets for Soldier’s Tale/Devil’s Tale are $3 for students and $7 for adults and
are available online at ucmpas.com, at the Central Tickets box office in Admin100B
from 9-11 a.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday, by calling 660-543-8888, and one hour
prior to show time at Hart Recital Hall.
This concert is part of PAS Guest Artist Series in partnership with the Kansas City
Symphony Community Outreach Program.
Financial assistance for this project has been provided by the Missouri Arts Council,
a state agency.
