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Still in Love (CD)

Kier Peters [Douglas Messerli]

Music by Michael Kowalski, Performance by The Post Industrial Players

Based on the play "Past, Present, and Future Tense" from A Dog Tries to Kiss the Sky, this chamber music drama follows a couple through their checkered erotic lives three times: first as a narrated flashback, then in a curiously realistic present, and finally in a surreal and cataclysmic dream of the future. All three acts are characterized by brilliant verbal sparring which repeatedly turns from gentle humor to lacerating sarcasm without ever losing an uncanny aura of empathy.

Michael Kowalski studied composition with Richard Hervig. Herbert Brun, Ben Johnston, Salvatore Martirano, and Betsy Jolas. His chamber music has been performed throughout Europe, Japan, and at dozens of universities in the U.S. and Canada. He has been presenting his music and text-based performance art in New York since 1980.

Playwright Kier Peters is the author of The Confirmation, Intentional Coincidence, A Dog Tries to Kiss the Sky, Family, and the musical Flying Down to Cairo.

Soprano Karen Grahn’s roles include Silberklang in Mozart’s The Impresario at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Eudora in David Clenney’s La Contessa di Vampiri at the Kennedy Center. She has also appeared in John Adams’ Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer.

Baritone Gregory Pumhagen has worked extensively with Philip Glass, for whom he created the roles of la Bête, Avenant, and le Prince for the world premiere of La Belle et la Bête. He was also a featured performer in the 1992 world tour of the GlassAVilson opera Einstein on the Beach.

Cellist Yari Bond studied with Leonard Rose at the Juilliard School. She is a founding member of the Carnegie Chamber Players. Her recordings on the CRI, Opus One, and Classics Masters labels include several premieres of contemporary works.