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Hanukkah opera “The Miracle of Light” presented by Chamber Opera Chicago December 10th and 17th 2017 at 3:00PM at The Royal George Theater, paired with “Amahl and the Night Visitors.”
The opera is about bullying – a very timely subject that ties together the relationship between contemporary bullying in schools and the bullying of a religious minority by their oppressors 2000 years ago. In “The Miracle of Light” a teenager is bullied by his classmates and in both stories the spirit of hope and forgiveness is symbolized by the light that would not be extinguished.
Soloists: 1 adult soprano, I boy soprano, 1 girl soprano, children's chorus, chamber ensemble. available in chamber orchestra and piano/vocal score.
A Hanukkah Opera premiered by Chamber Opera Chicago in 2016. The story tells of a high school student bullied by his classmates, and a teacher who brings the class together through her lesson on Hanukkah. |
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On September 10, the Hamptons Festival of Music will perform Bond’s Bridges for orchestra in Wainscott, NY. “Drawn from the folk music of China and America, Bridges is organized around five actual bridges from around the world,” says Bond.
Railroad Trestle uses the motoric rhythm of a train and the sound of a fiddle and banjo playing country music. Stone Bridge is based on a traditional Chinese song called Moli Hua or Jasmine Flower. Golden Gate Bridge recalls the folk music of the 1960's and 70's in California, particularly a song by Joan Baez. Brooklyn Bridge brings together a second meaning of the word "bridge" in that it refers to the "B" or "bridge" section of a be-bop standard, Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm." The work's finale, Mackinac Bridge, is based on the folk song "The Water is Wide" and is named after one of the longest suspension bridges in the Western Hemisphere.
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Bridges by Victoria Bond began as a quartet for clarinet, bass clarinet, erhu and pipa, commissioned for Birds and Phoenix and premiered by John Yeh, Teresa Reilly, Yang Wei and Wang Guowei in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Watch the video below of Railroad Trestle Bridge. All four bridges are available on YouTube and are: Railroad Trestle Bridge in Galax, Virginia; Stone Bridge Over a Reflecting Pool in Suzhou, China; Golden Gate Bridge; Brooklyn Bridge |
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Illuminations on Byzantine Chant (2021)
This work represents over twenty years of creative collaboration with pianist Paul Barnes. I wanted to select byzantine hymns that reflected the wide emotional range and spiritual message of Judaism and Christianity. The musical roots are very similar and this piece highlights those similarities. |
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Marshall Opera will present mezzo-soprano Mary Rice and pianist Amir Farid performing "I'm Told I'm a Citizen" from Victoria Bond's opera "Mrs. President." |
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My variations are based on the theme of the Andante movement of the Brahms String Sextet number one in B-flat major, Op. 18. They consist of twelve variations and a coda. The theme itself is divided into two sections, each of which is repeated. I took the theme’s chromatically descending bass line as a first motive, out of which I constructed a twelve-tone row, and the theme’s ascending melodic line as a second motive. The twelve variations are divided into two sections: the first six of which consist of variations on the first motive, and the last five of which begin with a passacaglia bass line based on the second motive. Over this bass line, presented by itself in variation eight, the first three variations are contrapuntally added in reverse order, so that variation nine adds variation three; variation ten adds variation two to three and variation eleven adds variations one to the combined variations two and three, so that they are all sounding simultaneously. The seventh variation, called “celestial navigation,” is a distillation of the entire piece and forms the dividing line between sections one and two. |
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"Anne Frank's Tree" commissioned by The Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, will premiere on January 20, 2024 in Indianapolis at the Schrott Center for the Arts, Butler University, 610 W. 46th St., Indianapolis, IN 46208 |
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The Frog Prince with music by Victoria Bond and text by Bob and Anne McGrath will be performed in Oakland, CA on November 9 |
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