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<div class="">For those of you in the Toronto area, and for all those interested in the continuing public life of Virginia Woolf:</div>
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<div class="">Muse 9 Productions is a Multi-disciplinary Music Theatre production company based in Toronto, Canada.</div>
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<div class="">Muse 9’s first production, "From the Diary of Virginia Woolf", is a theatrical art song performance featuring the music of Dominick Argento and Amy Beach paired with excerpts from Woolf's novels, letters, and diaries. It is an artistic exploration
into the life and mind of the brilliant writer and feminist icon Virginia Woolf through the performances of Mezzo Soprano Victoria Marshall, Actor Keshia Palm, and Dancer Renee Killough. </div>
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<div class="">Each of the three performers represent a facet of Woolf ranging from her public persona to her inner most thoughts.” Explains co-founder and Stage Director Anna Theodosakis, “Different parts of her personality and experience are portrayed through
a combination of song, dance, and Woolf’s own writing. It’s been exciting to see the diverse ideas these three women bring to the rehearsal and creation process based on their unique disciplines.</div>
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<div class="">The cycle is fully staged, featuring a mezzo soprano, an actor, and a dancer. Each performer represents an aspect of Ms. Woolf: from her most public persona to her most intimate. Our director Anna Theodosakis has put together a script that tells
the story of Virginia while also painting a picture of the inner workings of her brilliant mind, and her struggles with mental illness. The show runs about one hour, and will feature costumes and lighting. </div>
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<div class="">Staged at the Ernest Balmer Studio in Toronto’s Historic Distillery District on April 13th at 8pm, it will feature music direction and piano by Hyejin Kwon, stage direction by Anna Theodosakis, and lighting design by Wesley McKenzie. Proceeds
from the event will go to CAMH.</div>
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Tickets (students $15) are available at the door or online (includes 1.25 service fee) via this link: <a href="https://muse9.brownpapertickets.com/?pk_vid=fd8ddd013bde0bef15227881056418fd" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(18, 183, 198); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(236, 237, 237);" class="">https://muse9.brownpaperticket<wbr class="">s.com</a><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;" class="">.
They</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;" class=""> suggest buying ahead as seating is limited. (And if you’re not a student, buying ahead is cheaper)</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;" class="">About the song cycle itself:</span></div>
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<p class=""><i class=""><b class="">From the Diary of Virginia Woolf</b></i> is an eight-part
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Dominick Argento</a> in 1974 for the English <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezzo-soprano" title="Mezzo-soprano" class="">
mezzo-soprano</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Baker" title="Janet Baker" class="">
Janet Baker</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-All_music_1-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Diary_of_Virginia_Woolf#cite_note-All_music-1" class="">[1]</a></sup> The work won the
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Pulitzer Prize for Music</a> in 1975.</p>
<p class="">The text of the songs comes from <i class="">A Writer's Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf</i>, which was published in 1954.<sup id="cite_ref-Amazon-1954_2-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Diary_of_Virginia_Woolf#cite_note-Amazon-1954-2" class="">[2]</a></sup>
(The five-volume diaries edited by Anne Olivier Bell were not published until 1979.<sup id="cite_ref-Amazon-1979_3-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Diary_of_Virginia_Woolf#cite_note-Amazon-1979-3" class="">[3]</a></sup>)</p>
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The 8 movements are:</div>
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You tube performance of song cycle here:</div>
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