Camille Claudel: Into the Fire / Orchestral • 2015

Texts by Gene Scheer

Orchestral
For Mezzo & Full Orchestra

World Premiere: February 26, 2015
Commissioned by Berkeley Symphony

First Performance: mezzo Sasha Cooke and the Berkeley Symphony
Zellerbach Hall, Seattle

Duration: 30’

Inspired by the life and and work of the French sculptor

Resources

Overview
Chamber Version
Performances
Press Coverage
Program Notes
Recordings
Scores

Prelude: Awakening
1. Rodin
2. La Valse
3. Shakuntala
4. La petite châtelaine
5. The Gossips
6. L’age mûr
7. Epilogue: Jessie Lipscomb visits Camille Claudel, Montdevergues Asylum, 1929

Generously underwritten by Linda & Stuart Nelson

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