by Ralph Vaugn Williams
by Lennox Berkeley
A double bill Produced by The Manhattan School of Music
Photos by Art Rotch
Directed by Rhoda Levine
Costumes by Marion Williams
Lighting by Aaron Black
Production Manager Victor Catano
Technical Director Tyler Learned
At the start of “Riders” it is not clear that this will be an evening of interesting contrasts. What is clear, from the first chord, is impending tragedy… Rhoda Levine, who directs the two works, creates a barren grey shoal of a cottage… with unexplained black-clad women seated motionless like silent norns on piles of rocks around the stage. Rather than trying to link the two works witha common set, Levine happily makes an entirely different world for “A Dinner Engagement”, first performed in 1954 and set in a brightly colored middle-class kitchen of the period.” —- Anne Midgette, NY Times, December 2005 Click here for the full Review