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Wednesday, August 29, 2001 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER C7 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Local musician composes and mounts own work B y C arol Baldw in ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR M isha Aster may not be another Mozart, who began composing at about age 5, but at age 23, the Oakville musician has composed a theatrical concert that will go on stage in Toron to next month. And it's not his first. "It's my own adaptation. I've taken two works: the opera Wozzeck and the play Woyzeck, and have translated and adapted both from Ger man into a musical-dramatic tapestry," says the young stage director of Wozzeck/Woyzeck, a 100minute presentation that combines Alban Berg's opera and Georg Buchner's theatrical production. Aster says he chose that combination because the opera Wozzeck has always been part o f his life, since he spent his formative years at rehearsals with his opera director mother. Dur ing his first five or six years of life, he says, his mother worked on a number of productions of that particular opera in Europe and in North America. "Every time I heard the music there was some kind of emotional recall. I certainly felt a connection with the work," he explains. "I saw a production of it in Salzburg, Austria in 1997...and I had mixed opinions on the produc tion. But more than being impressed by it, I was struck by the possibilities of the piece." Despite its possibilities, Wozzeck poses a problem for many opera companies because it requires a 120-piece orchestra. But, when Aster was studying 20th century opera, he discovered a 21-instrument chamber orchestration of the well-know opera. "That excited me tremendous ly. And with the thoughts still turning over in my mind after the Salzburg production, Wozzeck became quite an obsession." Then after reading the play (written in 1837) a couple of years ago, the young musician, who has played the violin for almost 20 years, says he realized how powerful words and verbal expres sion could be. Music, on the other, has more emotional resources, but is simplified, he adds. "As a young person, I like articulation. I like ideas that can be communicated through speech. Expressing myself in words is a very important value to me, so I started thinking about how Buchner and Berg could be reconciled." And he set out to do just that, claiming it only took about three months of actual work, although he could see images in his m ind's eye before he put pen to paper or fingers to comput er keyboard. Once the work was complete, Aster still had the hurdle of trying to find a company to mount his new production. No problem there, either. The young man simply formed his own compa ny - Theatre of Ideas - and set about having Wozzeck/Woyzeck produced. Photo by Brent Foster Misha Aster is composer and stage director of Wozzeck/Woyzeck - a new "musical-dramatic tapestry" that combines Alban Berg's opera and Georg Buchner's theatrical production. "We have a board of directors and an artistic advisory board. And this is the first production of the company with the momentum from which we hope to parlay into future projects of this nature," he says, explaining that his interest will continue to lie with the relationship between music and drama - "that tension between what can be said in words and what can only be expressed through music." The orchestral music in this first production of his will be provided by 21 musicians who will be on stage rather than in an orchestra pit, with their role resembling that of the chorus in ancient Greek tragedies - "a constant presence that comments on the previous scenes' actions and foreshadows what is to com e.. .pushing the action out into direct contact with the audience." Along with the musicians, five actors will tell Buchner's story of a delusional barber accused of murder. The story, says Aster, focus es on the relationships between the different characters, although the playwright died before finishing the play. "So we're left with these absolutely remark able sketches which, in and of themselves, cre ate a masterpiece. But it is an incomplete, nondefinitive work," says Aster, explaining that there is no set sequence of events or ending. "They are very short scenes of tw o...(to) four minutes, in different locations that move mon tage style. It's not your typical drawing room play. Life goes on in between all the scenes...dropping in on different characters all the time." Out o f this, Berg fashioned a three-act opera, with five musically structured scenes in each act, and an ending. 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