ISSUE II - DECEMBER 2008

ViolaStories is a collection of music performances, videos, and drawings created in 1992 and 1993 at the Carnegie Mellon Centre de Tours in France as part of an arts and humanities interdisciplinary summer abroad program sponsored by Carnegie Mellon University.

The highly programmatic musical works included in this collection were introduced and performed by Franco Sciannameo before students, faculty, and guests who expressed their impressions about the works’ narratives through videos, poems, prose, and drawings.

The purpose of ViolaStories, is to create a lasting document about exceptional educational time spent by Carnegie Mellon faculty and students, working together in a villa located in Tours along the river Loire in the Touraine region of France.

CONTENT

Sancho’s Impossible Dream*, A Funeral in Venice, Cinderella no more!, and To a Young Lover

Sancho’s Impossible Dream, A Funeral in Venice, and Cinderella no more! were recorded in concert on 1 November 1993 in Alumni Concert Hall at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. To a Young Lover was recorded in concert on July 14, 1993 at La Salle Ockeghem in Tours, France.