PERFORMING ARTS 2016-2017 SEASON
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SPRING 2017 | VOL. V | ISSUE III
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CONTENTS
ROSI GOLAN
A MOVIE YOU HAVEN’T SEEN
ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER
THE FREEDOM TO MARRY
MANUAL CINEMA
SOME BEASTS
WAYNE SHORTER QUARTET
HUNKY DORY
COVER PHOTO COURTESY
Robert Ascroft 2017 Spring Program 5
Building STRONGER COMMUNITIES Through the Arts
Capital City Bank is proud to support Opening Nights Performing Arts again this season and to have sponsored "An Evening with Lily Tomlin." 402.7500 l www.ccbg.com
Florida State University John Thrasher, President Opening Nights Performing Arts Staff Christopher Heacox Director
Bethany Atwell Artistic & Administrative Coordinator Calla MacNamara Education and Engagement Manager
Lori Elliott Marketing and Communications Manager Amanda Hartsfield Multimedia Design Specialist
Rodney Johnson Assistant Director of Creative Services Opening Nights Performing Arts Advisory Board Mike Pate, Chair Gus Corbella, Chair-Elect Ruth Akers, Ph.D. Teresa Atkins Sara Bayliss Carmen Butler Kimberly Criser Rachel Massey Nan Nagy Michael Obrecht Eva Nielsen-Parks Susan Stratton Ed West Alan Williams Florida State University Office of the President College of Arts and Sciences College of Fine Arts College of Motion Picture Arts College of Music Askew Student Life Cinema Donald L. Tucker Civic Center Fine Arts Ticket Office Florida State University Foundation University Communications
Please enjoy the 2017 Spring Season of Opening Nights Performing Arts at Florida State University. As temperatures heat up with spring, so too, does the Opening Nights Performing Arts series! The next two months of performances will be as spectacular as our previous five. We begin March with singer-songwriter Rosi Golan (3/7) showcasing her rich, dark melodies. We then move to a Director’s Choice offering: Manual Cinema presenting Ava/Ada (3/23), which combines shadow puppetry, cinematic techniques and innovative sound and music to create visual stories for stage and screen. Our annual A Movie You Haven’t Seen (3/25), one of our oldest traditions, is curated by Torchlight Director, Paul Cohen. As part of the Southern Circuit Film Tour, we are featuring Some Beasts by Filmmaker Cameron Nelson (3/29). In April, we are privileged to have one of the most acclaimed violinists of our time, Anne-Sophie Mutter (4/4), come to Tallahassee as part of an exclusive sevencity U.S. recital tour accompanied by pianist Lambert Orkis. Arts education is at the core of Opening Nights’ mission. Demonstrating our commitment to this mission, Mutter will teach a master class to FSU violin students. Additionally, each season Opening Nights strives to commission a special work that our students can perform. This year, we are especially honored to have commissioned The Unfolding by NEA Jazz Master Wayne Shorter (4/13) who, with his quartet, will perform with the FSU Chamber Winds conducted by Richard Clary. We will conclude the 2016-17 season with two more films: Freedom to Marry, (4/17) co-presented by Tallahassee Pridefest and directed by Eddie Rosenstein, is an epic documentary about the historic civil rights struggle for same sex marriage; and from the South Arts Southern Circuit Film Tour, Hunky Dory (4/19) by filmmaker Michael Curtis Johnson. Thank you to our sponsors, members, numerous supporters and performers for making the 2016-17 season one of the best yet! Next season, Opening Nights Performing Arts will be celebrating its 20th Anniversary. Mark your calendar for the Announcement Party in early August, where we will share another outstanding lineup of performances and special events to commemorate this milestone. All the best,
Christopher J. Heacox Director, Opening Nights Performing Arts
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Rosi Golan TUESDAY 3/7 | 7:30 P.M. THE CARRIAGE HOUSE AT GOODWOOD MUSEUM & GARDENS
“Singer-songwriter offers a treasure trove of tracks showcasing her quaint sound and folksy roots” - The UCSD Guardian Originally from Israel, Rosi Golan traveled the world before setting up shop in Brooklyn, NY. Since then, Rosi has released 2 albums (The Drifter & the Gypsy & Lead Balloon) and an EP (Fortuna), with her unique blend of songs steeped in Americana, pop and thoughtful folk. Those songs have been prominently featured in TV shows Private Practice, Vampire Diaries, Nashville, The Royals, Reign, NCIS and One Tree Hill, feature films such as Dear John and National ad campaigns for Pantene, Stella and Walmart. Her song “Can’t Go Back” was released by Little Big Town on their platinum selling LP Tornado and “Good Night” was on Billy Currington’s latest release, Summer Forever. She’s also had numerous singles and a #1 in Germany with her song “Stardust” as recorded by artist Lena (Universal Germany). Features include US Weekly, iTunes (Indie Spotlight Artist), Grammy.com, Interview, Noistrade, Paste, Maire Claire, Perezhilton.com, Voice Project, Daytrotter and NPR Mountain Stage. Rosi has toured the world many times over as well as shared the stage with artists such as Snow Patrol, Joshua Radin, William Fitzsimmons and Marketa Irglova. Look for Rosi back on tour this year as she gears up for the spring release of her latest record, Collecting Bullets.
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DIRECTOR’S CHOICE
Manual Cinema Presenting Ada/Ava
THURSDAY 3/23 | RICHARD G. FALLON THEATRE | 7:30 P.M.
“It’s been a long time since we’ve experienced craft, image, and emotion blended together like this.” - Helen Shaw, Time Out New York Manual Cinema is a performance collective, design studio, and film/ video production company founded in 2010 by Drew Dir, Sarah Fornace, Ben Kauffman, Julia Miller, and Kyle Vegter. Manual Cinema combines handmade shadow puppetry, cinematic techniques, and innovative sound and music to create immersive visual stories for stage and screen. Using vintage overhead projectors, multiple screens, puppets, actors, live-feed cameras, multi-channel sound design, and a live music ensemble, Manual Cinema transforms the experience of attending the cinema and imbues it with liveness, ingenuity, and theatricality. Continued on pg. 29 Presented by
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A Movie You Haven’t Seen SATURDAY 3/25 | ASKEW STUDENT LIFE CINEMA | 2:30 P.M. Rose’s (1999), The Red Violin (2000), Curdled (2001), Gettysburg (2002), The General (2003), 11:14 (2004), The Agronomist (2005), The Trees Have a Mother, Stories of the Amazon (2007) Curated by Geoffrey Gilmore: The Visitor (2008), 500 Days of Summer (2009), Blue Valentine (2010), Win Win (2011), Being Flynn (2012), War Witch (2013), Palo Alto (2014) Curated by Paul Cohen, Executive Director of The Torchlight Program: Racing Extinction (2015), Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) Since its inception in 1999, Opening Nights has presented an annual “movie you haven’t seen.” Silent films, local creations, Oscar® nominees, and international film circuit delights— each film has added to the collective cinema experience in Tallahassee. Our selected film will be appropriate for all audiences unless otherwise expressed and will include a panel discussion with industry professionals. Presented collaboratively with the FSU College of Motion Picture Arts and The Torchlight Program, this year’s film is sure to inspire and entertain. Continued on pg. 31
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Some Beasts WEDNESDAY 3/29 | ASKEW STUDENT LIFE CINEMA | 7:30 P.M. PRESENTED BY OPENING NIGHTS PERFORMING ARTS AND THE ASKEW STUDENT LIFE CINEMA
Filmmaker: Cameron Nelson Living in an insular farming community, Sal Damon, a modern-day Thoreau, seeks solace from a past relationship in Appalachia. After his neighbor dies and he discovers a feral child living on the lam, he must reconcile his place in a world that lives outside of the law. Continued on pg. 33
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Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin Lambert Orkis, piano
TUESDAY 4/4 | RUBY DIAMOND CONCERT HALL | 7:30 P.M. Clockwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sebastian Currier Lifeless – Turbulent – (Lifeless) – Searching - (Lifeless) – Restless - (Lifeless)
Sonata for Piano and Violin in A Major K.526 . . . Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart I. Molto Allegro II. Andante III. Presto
I NT ER M I S S I ON Sonata in B minor for Violin and Piano, P.110 . . . . . . . . . Ottorino Respighi I. Moderato II. Andante espressivo III. Allegro moderato ma energico Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso, Op 28 . . . . . . . . . . Camille Saint-Saëns *PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE* Ms. Mutter records for Deutsche Grammophon and is available on EMI Classics and Erato/Warner Classics.
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DIRECTOR’S CHOICE
Wayne Shorter Quartet The Unfolding
Featuring Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci, and Brian Blade with the FSU Chamber Winds, conducted by Richard Clary THURSDAY 4/13 | RUBY DIAMOND CONCERT HALL | 7:30 P.M.
“Wayne Shorter is one of the greatest living jazz musicians.” - NPR Music Wayne Shorter is one of the most influential saxophonists and composers in the pantheon of modern music, let alone jazz. Regarded as a pioneer since his emergence in the 1950s, Shorter’s trajectory has restlessly embodied continual exploration and unencumbered momentum. A generation of musicians and fans see and hear him as a humble master who created a timeless vocabulary as vital as it is unbound. The Unfolding is a contemporary work commissioned by Opening Nights Performing Arts, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Monterey Jazz Festival, and the Jazztopad Festival (Wroclaw, Poland). This new piece is inspired by recent scientific interpretations of the Big Bang theory that describe the expansion of the universe as an “unfolding” of matter in the time and space continuum. Continued on pg. 39 Presented by
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The Freedom to Marry MONDAY 4/17 | ASKEW STUDENT LIFE CINEMA | 7:30 P.M. CO-PRESENTED BY TALLAHASSEE PRIDEFEST
“...surprisingly suspenseful and thoroughly moving and inspiring.” – The Boston Globe The epic, nail-biting, untold story of how same-sex marriage became law of the land. The Freedom to Marry follows Evan Wolfson, the architect of the movement, civil rights attorney Mary Bonauto and their key colleagues on this decades long battle, culminating in a dramatic fight at the United States Supreme Court. More than the saga of one movement’s history, this is an inspiring tale of regular people can actually win - and how activists can effectively change the minds and laws of the nation. Continued on pg. 49
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Mix & Mingle The show goes on at W XYZ® bar Close out Opening Nights in the vibrant social scene at W XYZ® bar. Enjoy specialty cocktails, delicious bites, and live entertainment from local artists. Relax in the Re:mixSM lounge or kick back in our spacious backyard. Open daily from 5 PM — 12 AM
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Hunky Dory WEDNESDAY 4/19 | ASKEW STUDENT LIFE CINEMA | 7:30 P.M. PRESENTED BY OPENING NIGHTS PERFORMING ARTS AND THE ASKEW STUDENT LIFE CINEMA
Filmmaker: Michael Curtis Johnson After his ex-girlfriend disappears, Sidney, a transgender glam rock dilettante, is forced to look after his 11-year-old son full-time. His “cool dad” facade quickly falls apart, and his life goes into a tailspin as he struggles to let go of his rock-and-roll lifestyle. Continued on pg. 57
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Manual Cinema Continued from pg. 15
ADA/AVA Bereaved of her twin sister Ava, septuagenarian Ada solitarily marks time in the patterns of a life built for two. However, a traveling carnival and a trip to a mirror maze plunges her into a journey across the thresholds of life and death. Set in a landscape of the New England gothic, Ada/Ava uses a story of the fantastic and super natural to explore mourning and melancholy, self and other.
CREDITS DIRECTED BY Drew Dir
SOUND DESIGN AND ORIGINAL SCORE BY Kyle Vegter and Ben Kauffman
DESIGNED BY Drew Dir, Sarah Fornace, and Julia Miller
MANUAL CINEMA To date Manual Cinema has created three feature length live cinematic shadow puppet shows (Lula Del Ray, ADA/AVA, Mementos Mori); a live cinematic contemporary dance show created for family audiences in collaboration with Hubbard Street Dance and the choreographer Robyn Mineko Williams (Mariko’s Magical Mix); two original site-specific installations (La Celestina, My Soul’s Shadow); an original adaptation of Hansel & Gretel created for the Belgian Royal Opera; music videos for Sony Masterworks, Gabriel Kahane, three time GRAMMY® Award-winning eighth blackbird, and New York Times Best Selling author Reif Larson; a live non-fiction piece for Pop-Up Magazine (SF); cinematic trailers; a short, self-produced film (CHICAGOLAND); a museum exhibit created in collaboration with the Chicago History Museum (The Secret Lives of Objects ) a collection of cinematic shorts in collaboration with poet Zachary Schomburg and string quartet Chicago Q Ensemble (FJORDS ); and live cinematic puppet adaptations of StoryCorps stories (Show & Tell). Manual Cinema’s work has been presented
Manual Cinema Photo by Yi Zhao by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC) The Tehran International Puppet Festival (Iran), La Monnaie-De Munt (Brussels) The Kennedy Center (DC), The Kimmel Center (Philadelphia), the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Noorderzon Festival (Netherlands), The O, Miami Poetry Festival, Davies Symphony Hall (SF), The Ace Hotel Theater (LA), Handmade Worlds Puppet Festival (Minneapolis), The Screenwriters’ Colony in Nantucket, The Detroit Institute of Art, The Future of Storytelling Conference (NYC), the New York International Fringe Festival, The Poetry Foundation (Chicago), the Chicago International Music and Movies Festival, the Puppeteers of America: Puppet
Festival (R)evolution, and elsewhere around the world. Manual Cinema was ensemble-in-residence at the University of Chicago in the Theater and Performance Studies program in the fall of 2012, where they taught as adjunct faculty. In 2013, Manual Cinema held residencies and taught workshops at the School of the Art Institute (Chicago), The Future of Storytelling Conference (NYC), RCAH at Michigan State University, and Puppeteers of America: Puppet Festival (R)evolution (Swarthmore, PA), Southern Illinois University, and the Chicago Parks District. In Spring 2016 Manual Cinema held workshops at Yale University as visiting lecturers in the theater department. 2017 Spring Program 29
Recently, Manual Cinema premiered The Magic City, a new show for all ages adapted from a novel by Edith Nesbit, at Chicago Children’s Theatre. In Fall 2016, they contributed visuals, music, and sound design for an immersive adaptation of Peter Pan with producer Randy Weiner (Sleep No More, The Donkey Show, Queen of the Night) which premiered in Beijing. This spring they begin production on another feature length show, The End of TV, to premiere at the New Haven Arts Fest in the summer of 2017. They are also currently creating a new performance about the life and work of poet Gwendolyn Brooks, commissioned by the Poetry Foundation, and based on a screenplay by Eve Ewing and Nathaniel Marshall. Manual Cinema will tour Europe this spring and summer.
A Movie You Haven’t Seen Continued from pg. 17
MARK FISHKIN Mark Fishkin is the Executive Director and Founder of the California Film Institute and the Founder and Director of the Mill Valley Film Festival. Since founding the festival in 1977, Mr. Fishkin has shepherded the threeday showcase into an 11-day, internationally acclaimed event featuring a wide variety of U.S. and international independent films, shorts, panels and tributes to exceptional filmmakers. Under his direction, the Mill Valley Film Festival has garnered a reputation as a favorite among filmmakers and one of the most influential non-competitive festivals in North America. Mr. Fishkin spearheaded the $8.5 million capital campaign to restore the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center, which opened in 1999, creating new models for filmmakers for exhibition. Under Mark’s leadership the Smith Rafael Film Center has become one of the most highly regarded and successful not-for-profit art house theaters in the country. In 2003, Mr. Fishkin received an honorary Doctorate of Humanities from Dominican University in San Rafael, California. He has
hen’s influence, Gov. Lawton Chiles appointed Cohen to promote independent motion picture production in the state, where he was instrumental in founding the first Florida Film Forum. He first guest lectured at the FSU College of Motion Picture Arts (CMPA) Graduate Conservatory more than 25 years ago. He joined the CMPA faculty 10 years ago to share his vast experience and expertise with thesis students in what he references as “the art of business and the business of art” in marketing, distribution, producing and exhibition courses.
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served on numerous boards of directors, including the Management Center, the Film Arts Foundation, and the International Film Festival Summit. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Film Festival Alliance, and also serves on the board of the Art House Convergence. In 2013, Mr. Fishkin was appointed and sworn into the San Francisco Film Commission. As a commissioner, he works to develop, recognize and promote film activities in San Francisco. In January of 2016, Mark was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Heart of Marin Awards in San Rafael. CFI is launching its inaugural documentary film festival in 2017 entitled DocLands, and is relaunching its distribution arm, CFI Releasing. Mr. Fishkin is frequently sought after as a panelist and moderator as expert on independent film, digital media and film distribution.
In 2008, Cohen co-founded the Torchlight Program and now serves as its executive director. FSU’s College of Motion Picture Arts established the program to enhance the education of students through instruction in current and emerging business practices of the motion picture industry. The Torchlight Program has provided more than 500 interning students the opportunity to distribute, market, present and exhibit more than 175 indie films. Cohen mentors his film students during their time at FSU and well after as they move into industry opportunities. The Program has played a prominent role in assisting with many community and on-campus initiatives, including collaborating for the 10th year with Opening Nights, representing CMPA’s association in the presentation of what Cohen has coined “A Movie You Haven’t Seen,” serving as this year’s curator. He continues to support, inspire and expand the voice and power of independent cinema throughout the State of Florida and continues
PAUL COHEN Paul Cohen is an independent motion picture executive who for more than three decades created a number of New York City-based successful distribution and production companies His filmography includes: Academy Award-winning, Best Foreign Language Picture, Mephisto; Oscar-nominated My Brilliant Career, introducing Sam Neill; Oscar-nominated The Thief; numerous Golden Globe nominations, BAFTA, Cesar, Donatelo, Spirit, NBR, Gotham and NY and LA Critics Circle Awards. Recognizing Co-
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to executive produce films such as the recently released theatrical documentary Dislecksia: The Movie, with Billy Bob Thornton and Joey Pantoliano. Cohen has executive produced for one of CMPA’s esteemed alums, documentarian Josh Tickell on Good Fortune, which is a feature length documentary study of the once homeless individual now a billionaire, Jean Paul DeJoria, engaged in ‘conscious capitalism’ being released this June. Cohen is inspired to again bring opportunities for the presentation of compelling, informative and entertaining cinema with exciting new Opening Nights cinema projects on the horizon. After all, “A Movie You Haven’t Seen” night is Paul’s favorite night.
Some Beasts Continued from pg. 19
Some Beasts is a film that will ask more questions than it answers and require its audiences to do the same. The film also speaks to the concept of the “American dream” and how that is being redefined in the post-modern era. In this way, the film works as an elegy, not only to a fading generation, but to A’court Bason, who appears as himself in the film. A’court passed away seven days after we wrapped principal photography and both cast and crew became very close to him over the
nine months we shot on his land. He was so inspired by our efforts that he asked to keep and be buried in the coffin that appears in the film. In turn, he inspired us to continue on his legacy. In our hearts, the film serves as a living memorial to A’court and the ideals that he lived his life to preserve. We hope Some Beasts will be a truly cinematic experience that will capture audiences with its breathtaking scenery, subtle performances, and timeless story about one man’s choice between his dreams and his responsibilities. [Source: FilmFreeway Submission] The Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers is a program of South Arts. This screening is supported in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.
Anne-Sophie Mutter Continued from pg. 21
ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER Anne-Sophie Mutter is a musical phenomenon who celebrates 40 years as a virtuoso fixture on the international stages of the world’s major concert halls, making her mark on the classical music scene as a soloist, mentor and visionary. The 2016-17 season marks the 40-year anniversary of her debut as a 13-year-old soloist at the Salzburg Whitsun Concerts under Herbert von Karajan’s baton.
The four-time GRAMMY® Award winner is fully committed both to the performance of traditional composers and to the future of music: so far she has given world premieres of 24 works by composers including Sebastian Currier, Henri Dutilleux, Sofia Gubaidulina, Witold Lutoslawski, Norbert Moret, Krzysztof Penderecki, Sir André Previn and Wolfgang Rihm. Furthermore, she dedicates herself to numerous benefit projects and to supporting tomorrow’s young musical stars: in the autumn of 1997 she founded the “Association of Friends of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation e.V.”, to which the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation was added in 2008. These two charitable institutions provide support for the scholarship recipients, support which is tailored to the fellows’ individual needs. Since 2011, Anne-Sophie Mutter has regularly shared the spotlight on stage with her ensemble of fellows, “Mutter Virtuosi”. The year 2017, featuring concerts in Europe and North America, reflects the violinist’s musical versatility and illustrates her unparalleled rank in the world of classical music. At the Tanglewood Festival, she performs the world premiere of John Williams’ work Markings for solo violin, strings and harp. She also appears at the Salzburg Whitsun and Summer Festivals, at the Lucerne Summer Festival and La Scala in Milan, as well as performing with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Gewandhaus Orchestra, the London Philhar-
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monic, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. She will perform and record Schubert Trout Quintet with Daniil Trifonov and three of her you fellows as well Vivaldi The Four Seasons with the Mutter Virtuosi. Together with pianist Lambert Orkis, she gives recitals in Europe and in North America. Anne-Sophie Mutter has been awarded the 2017 ‘Crystal Award’ by the World Economic Forum for her services to music education and young artists. In addition she has been awarded the German Grand Order of Merit, the French Medal of the Legion of Honour, the Bavarian Order of Merit, the Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria, and numerous other honours. Columbia Artists Management LLC R. DOUGLAS SHELDON cami.com | anne-sophie-mutter.de
LAMBERT ORKIS The musical interests of Lambert Orkis encompass traditional and contemporary music performed on modern and period instruments. His substantial career includes more than 11 years of international touring as a partner with cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. For 28 years, he has appeared with violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter to capacity audiences in the world’s finest performance venues. Their many recordings and DVDs for Deutsche Grammophon include The Club Album released last year, and the complete sonatas by Mozart (Choc de l’année Award), Beethoven (GRAMMY Award), and Brahms.
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His distinguished career includes appearances with cellists Lynn Harrell, Anner Bylsma, and Daniel Müller-Schott, violinist Julian Rachlin, and violist Steven Dann, and he has performed with the Vertavo, Emerson, American, Mendelssohn, Curtis, and Manchester string quartets. As soloist he has made appearances with conductors including Christoph Eschenbach, Mstislav Rostropovich, Leonard Slatkin, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Günther Herbig, Robert Kapilow, Leon Fleisher, Kenneth Slowik, and others. Mr. Orkis has premiered and recorded compositions of numerous composers, including solo works by George Crumb, Richard Wernick, and James Primosch for Bridge Records. With the National Symphony Orchestra’s 2017 Spring Program 35
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Mozart composed his first sonata with violin in 1762, at the age of six; he went on to write some three dozen sonatas, the last appearing in 1788. No evidence remains to indicate why he wrote his penultimate Violin Sonata in the summer of 1787, during the lead-up to the premiere of Don Giovanni. He did manage to get the sonata published, and hopefully it provided a decent payout for the composer during the lean years preceding his early death, where demand for his concert appearances had dried up. The outer movements of the A-major Violin Sonata are a world away from the stormy, minor-key drama of Don Giovanni. Fleet-fingered piano writing recalls the original construct of such sonatas, in which the piano took the lead and the violin added decoration. (Those earlier sonatas were marketed toward amateurs for home use, so composers made allowances for less accomplished violinists.)
Lambert Orkis Principal Cellist David Hardy, he performs Beethoven’s complete works for piano and cello, using both modern and period instruments, on the Sono Luminus label. Mr. Orkis participated as a distinguished performing artist and teacher for Australia’s Musica Viva Festival and has twice served as juror of and performed for the Trondheim (Norway) International Chamber Music Competition and Festival. The Carnegie Hall International American Music Competition for Pianists and the Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards Competition have engaged him as adjudicator. As an Honored Artist for Taiwan’s New Aspect International Music Festival, he performed and presented master classes in Taipei. He has appeared internationally as orchestral soloist, performs and has recorded as a member of the Kennedy Center Chamber Players and the Smithsonian Institution’s Castle Trio (period instruments), and holds the positions of Principal Keyboard of the National Symphony Orchestra and Professor of Piano at Temple University in Philadelphia. In acknowledgment of his accomplishments, Mr. Orkis was honored with the Cross of the Order of Merit by the Federal Republic of Germany.
PROGRAM CLOCKWORK (1989) SEBASTIAN CURRIER (Born March 16, 1959, Huntingdon, PA)
The title could be applied to almost any composition, for music is composed of an intricate superimposition of elements—rhythmic movement of part against part, changes in harmony, phrase structure, subsection, sections, and so forth. If this piece may lay special claim to the title it is because of a tendency towards regular, unchanging meters, occasional evocations of mechanical movements suggestive of the gears of a clock, and careful attention to the timing between the semi-discrete sections that make up the work as a whole. The piece is in four parts, the first of which (Lifeless) recurs throughout the piece, engulfing the other three parts (Turbulent, Searching, Restless). All sections are played attacca. Clockwork was written in 1989 for violinist Lewis Kaplan. - Sebastian Currier, 1989
VIOLIN SONATA NO. 35 IN A MAJOR, K. 526 (1787) WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (Born January 27, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria – Died December 5, 1791 in Vienna, Austria)
The central Andante movement is the emotional core of this sonata, and its elegant melodic exchanges between violin and piano are a reminder that opera was never far from Mozart’s heart, especially in this period when he created his most affecting stage drama. There is a remarkable clarity to the musical texture, with accompaniments often stripped down to a single line of steady eighth-notes intoned in octaves—a duty shared quite amicably by the violin and piano. -Aaron Grad, 2017
VIOLIN SONATA IN B MINOR, P 110 (C. 1917) OTTORINI RESPIGHI (Born July 9, 1879 in Bologna, Italy – Died April 18, 1936 in Rome, Italy)
Most well-known for his Roman trilogy, Fontane di Roma, Pini di Roma and Feste Romane, Respighi seems to be the composer of large scale Romantic forms. His lessons in violin began at age eight, and it wasn’t long before he developed an interest in composition. His formal schooling in composition was at the Liceo Musicale in Rome, where he was deeply rooted in the German style of composition. As an accomplished violinist, violist and pianist, he took a position as a violist at the Imperial Theater at St. Petersburg. Developing fluency in the Russian language, he took advantage of his time there to study with the great Russian master 2017 Spring Program 37
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Rimsky-Korsakov. His lessons from Rimsky-Korsakov profoundly influenced his orchestration techniques. Stylistically, Respighi’s music is a blend of rich melodies with full and rich harmonies. Not only was he a master of orchestration, he had an uncanny ability of the evocation of Italian scenes, and the ability to sustain interest for long periods of time. His music shows a strong inclination toward impressionism while being rooted in the Romantic manner reminiscent of his contemporary, Richard Strauss. He took quite an interest in works and forms of earlier composers, and became adept in arranging the works of composers like Monteverdi, Tartini, Vitali and Vivaldi. This is probably the source of the Passacalia movement in the sonata. This Violin sonata in B minor was written shortly after the acclaimed premiere of his Fontane di Roma, a piece that catapulted him into the international spotlight as a composer. At the same time he was composing the sonata, he was working on a commission from Diaghilev to arrange some pieces of Rossini for the Ballet Russe. This piece became La boutique fantasque. He was also working on his Antiche danze ed arie per liuto (Ancient airs and dances). The sonata shows very little of the influence of these pieces, but is rather Brahmsian in its nature. It has a rather conventional three movement form, but is individualistic in its use of constantly changing meters in the first movement, Moderato. The second movement, Andante espressivo, is very passionate, expressive and lyrical with its constantly fluctuating harmonies. Inspired by the theme of the last movement of Brahms’ fourth symphony, the last movement is based on the ancient form of the Passacaglia, and marked Allegro moderato, ma energico. The ostinato theme is not in the expected eight measure phrase, but rather in a ten measure phrase, and jumps back and forth from the piano to the violin. It repeats eighteen times throughout the movement, midway through appearing in E major, and increasing the tempo, and going back into B minor. It works its way back down in tempo to a Lento then Adagio, and modulating to the key of B major. As the movement draws to a close, the ostinato again appears in its original form in the left hand of the piano, and again
in the key of B minor, just before the coda. This sonata was premiered in Bologna on March 3, 1918, with Federico Sarti on violin and Ottorini Respighi, himself, on piano. - Elizabeth E. Torres
INTRODUCTION AND RONDO CAPRICCIOSO, OP. 28 CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS (Born October 9, 1835 in Paris – Died December 16, 1921 in Algiers)
Charles Gounod once said of his contemporary: “Saint-Saëns possesses one of the most astonishing musical organizations that I know. He is a musician armed with every weapon. He possesses his art like no one else; he knows the masters by heart; he plays with and makes light of the piano, which says everything. He is neither finicking, nor violent, nor emphatic. He has no system, he belongs to no party, to no clique; he does not pose as a reformer of anything; he writes as he feels and with what he knows.” One of the most prolific of composers, Camille Saint-Saëns wrote music in every genre, from sonatas and concertos to symphonies, symphonic poems, songs, choral works, operas, and even a film score. Possessing an extraordinary intellect and wide-ranging interests, Saint-Saëns admired the music of the past and advocated some of the great composers of his own time. His efforts brought renewed interest in Bach, and he revived or introduced to French audiences works by Handel, Mozart, Gluck and Rameau. His keen observations of contemporary music led him to support the innovations of Schumann, Wagner and particularly Liszt, whose works he played and conducted frequently. Saint-Saëns’ intellectual curiosity led him to disciplines far beyond the realm of music. He published scientific papers on astronomy and archeology, wrote poetry and plays, and enjoyed philosophical dissertation. Saint-Saëns worked at dazzling speed; among his many talents he was also a virtuoso pianist rivaling his friend Liszt. Among the twenty-six concertante compositions listed in Saint-Saëns’ vast catalogue of works, one will find three Violin Concertos and six other works for violin solo and orchestra. Of these, three works owe their existence to the friendship between the composer and the Spanish violinist, Pablo de
Sarasate. Saint-Saëns once recounted his recollections of their first meeting thus: “Fresh and young as Spring itself, the faint shadow of a moustache scarcely visible on his upper lip, he was already a famous virtuoso. As if it were the easiest thing in the world, he had come quite simply to ask me to write a concerto for him. Flattered and charmed to the highest degree I promised I would, and I kept my word with the Concerto in A major...” Indeed, Saint-Saëns wrote his Concertos Nos. 1 and 3 and the Introduction and Rondo capriccioso for Sarasate. Written in 1863 and dedicated to Sarasate, the Introduction and Rondo capriccioso, Op. 28 is a playful and virtuostic work worthy of its first intended performer and dedicatee, and a fitting challenge to concert violinists ever since. The short Introduction is based on a beautiful, melancholic melody for the violin in two phrases, with a sustained chordal accompaniment. After a short animato section, the soloist’s trills on the lower string provide a transition into the Rondo proper. The recurring syncopated theme, based on idiomatic Spanish rhythms, gives the Rondo its distinctive character. Following the agitated second section, a gentler Intermezzo, employing entirely new material, is introduced. With the return of the main theme and the wealth of energetic staccatos, trills and brilliant arpeggios, the violin dominates the proceedings while the piano provides restrained but elegant accompaniment. Not until the last few pages of the score does the piano become more actively involved as it takes on the main theme while the soloist provides pyrotechnical embellishments. After a taxing cadenza for the soloist, a vigorous coda brings us to the dazzling and triumphant conclusion. - Ileen Zovluck, 1999 Columbia Artists Management
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Brian Blade has forever changed the landscape of modern jazz. Over the past 15 years, the ensemble has developed an uncanny chemistry and almost telepathic ability to communicate–they do not simply improvise on a form, but spontaneously create new compositions. They have come to describe this deeply emotional interaction as “zero gravity.” Shorter, already revered as the most important composer in jazz today, has developed an important body of work as a contemporary music composer. His compositions are always visual, relying on the vibrant adventures of one of contemporary music’s greatest minds. Shorter’s latest opus is the featured work in this evening’s program, entitled “The Unfolding.” A group of physicists believe that the universe came about through a series of waves, like an unfolding, rather than the big bang theory. With the universe as his inspiration, this piece highlights Shorter’s signature textural complexity through the voices of wind instruments. This work was co-commissioned by Monterey Jazz Festival, The Kennedy Center, Jazztopad Festival/National Forum of Music, Wroclaw, Poland, and Opening Nights Performing Arts at Florida State University.
WAYNE SHORTER Wayne Shorter’s continually expanding body of work is inextricably linked to the history of modern music. His music transcends genre while keeping the improvisational genius and surprise of jazz burning at the center. Regarded as one of the most significant and prolific performers and composers in jazz and modern music, Wayne Shorter has an outstanding record of professional achievement in his historic career as a musician. He has received substantial recognition from his peers, including nine GRAMMY Awards and 13 other GRAMMY nominations to date. He has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from New York University, the New England Conservatory and the Berklee College of Music. In 1997, the National Endowment for the Arts presented Shorter with the prestigious Jazz Master Award. Shorter’s childlike imagination and ceaseless innovation in music invite comparison to the enduring vitality of Picasso in the world of art or of Bergman in film. Today, Shorter continues to dazzle
Wayne Shorter Photo by Robert Ascroft audiences with his Quartet and his symphonic projects, creating some of the most powerful music of his career. If the prolific composer had never written a single tune, his signature sound and choice of notes, sense of economy and unparalleled expression on both tenor and soprano saxes would have earmarked him for greatness. Combine the writing prowess with the fragmented, probing solos and the enigmatic Buddhist philosopher presence and you have the makings of a jazz immortal. “Life is so mysterious, to me,” says Shorter. “I can’t stop at any one thing to say, ‘Oh, this is what it is.’ And I think it’s always becoming, always becoming. That’s the adventure. And imagination is part of that adventure.” Born in Newark, New Jersey, on August 25, 1933, he had his first great jazz epiphany as a teenager: “I remember seeing Lester Young when I was 15 years old. It was a Norman Granz Jazz at the Philharmonic show in Newark and he was late coming to the theater. Me and a couple of other guys were waiting out front of the Adams Theater and when he finally did show up, he had the pork pie hat and everything. So then we were trying to figure out how to get into the the-
ater from the fire escape around the back. We eventually got into the mezzanine and saw that whole show — Stan Kenton and Dizzy Gillespie bands together on stage doing ‘Peanut Vendor,’ Charlie Parker with strings doing ‘Laura’ and stuff like that. And Russell Jacquet…Ilinois Jacquet. He was there doing his thing. That whole scene impressed me so much that I just decided, ‘Hey, man, let me get a clarinet.’ So I got one when I was 16, and that’s when I started music.” Switching to tenor saxophone, Shorter formed a teenage band in Newark called The Jazz Informers and later got some invaluable bandstand experience with the Jackie Bland Band, a progressive Newark orchestra that specialized in bebop. While still in high school, Shorter participated in several cutting contests on Newark’s jazz scene, including one memorable encounter with sax great Sonny Stitt. He attended college at New York University while also soaking up the Manhattan jazz scene by frequenting popular nightspots like Birdland and Cafe Bohemia. Wayne worked his way through college by playing with the Nat Phipps orchestra. Upon graduating in 1956, he worked briefly with Johnny Eaton and his Princetonians, earning 2017 Spring Program 41
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A band of spellbinding intuition, with an absolute commitment to the spirit of discovery, it has had an incalculable influence on the practice of jazz in the 21st century. – The New York Times the nickname “The Newark Flash” for his speed and facility on the tenor saxophone. But just as he was beginning making his mark, Shorter was drafted into the Army. He recalls a memorable jam session at the Cafe Bohemia just days before he was shipped off to Fort Dix, New Jersey. “A week before I went into the Army I went to the Cafe Bohemia to hear music, I said, for the last time in my life. I was standing at the bar having a cognac and I had my draft notice in my back pocket. That’s when I met Max Roach. He said, ‘You’re the kid from Newark, huh? You’re The Flash.’ And he asked me to sit in. They were changing drummers throughout the night, so Max played drums, then Art Taylor, then Art Blakey. Oscar Pettiford was on cello. Jimmy Smith came in the door with his organ. He drove to the club with his organ in a hearse. And outside we heard that Miles was looking for somebody named Cannonball. And I’m saying to myself, ‘All this stuff is going on and I gotta go to the Army in about five days!’” Following his time in the service, Shorter had a brief stint in 1958 with Horace Silver and later played in the house band at Minton’s Playhouse in Harlem. It was around this time that Shorter began jamming with fellow tenor saxophonists John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins. In 1959, Shorter had a brief stint with the Maynard Ferguson big band before joining Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers in August of that year. He remained with the Jazz Messengers through 1963, becoming Blakey’s musical director and contributing several key compositions to the band’s book during those years. Shorter made his recording debut as a leader in 1959 for the Vee Jay label and in 1964 cut the first of a string of important recordings for the Blue Note label. He joined the Miles Davis band in 1964 and remained with the group through 1970, contributing such landmark compositions as
“Nefertiti,” “E.S.P.,” “Pinocchio,” “Sanctuary,” “Fall” and “Footprints.” In 1970, Shorter co-founded the group Weather Report with keyboardist and Miles Davis alum, Joe Zawinul. It remained the premier fusion group through the ’70s and into the early ’80s before disbanding in 1985 after 16 acclaimed recordings, including 1980’s GRAMMY Award-winning double-live LP set, 8:30. Shorter formed his own group in 1986 and produced a succession of electric jazz albums for the Columbia label—1986’s Atlantis, 1987’s Phantom Navigator, 1988’s Joy Ryder. He re-emerged on the Verve label with 1995’s High Life. After the tragic loss of his wife in 1996 (she was aboard the ill-fated Paris-bound flight TWA 800), Shorter returned to the scene with 1997’s 1+1, an intimate duet recording with pianist and former Miles Davis quintet bandmate Herbie Hancock. The two spent 1998 touring as a duet. By the summer of 2001, Wayne began touring as the leader of a talented young lineup featuring pianist Danilo Perez, bassist John Patitucci and drummer Brian Blade, each a celebrated recording artist and bandleader in his own right. The group’s uncanny chemistry was well documented on 2002’s acclaimed Footprints Live! Shorter followed in 2003 with the ambitious Alegria, an expanded vision for large ensemble which earned him a GRAMMY Award. In 2005, Shorter released the live Beyond the Sound Barrier, which earned him another GRAMMY Award. “It’s the same mission…fighting the good fight,” he said. “It’s making a statement about what life is, really. And I’m going to end the line with it.” Shorter marked another musical milestone in 2007 by pairing up with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouw, and a handful of the world’s best symphony orchestras to unveil his new symphonic repertoire including striking reworkings of
earlier compositions and newly composed material. Bassist John Pattitucci says that Shorter possesses the prowess of many classical composers combined. “Wayne’s got a feel for the melody, like Puccini, on an extremely high level, but he’s also got the harmonic complexity, like Ravel.” The rich harmonic palette of his music and the interaction between orchestra and soloists makes the music compelling and interesting to audiences and also energizing and interesting for orchestral musicians. The orchestra functions as a leading voice, in dialogue and interplay with improvisations by Shorter and his ensemble. The legendary jazz saxophonist and composer made his triumphant return to Blue Note Records after 43 years with the 2013 release of Without A Net, a searing new album with his long-running Quartet featuring pianist Danilo Perez, bassist John Patitucci, and drummer Brian Blade. The album is a 9-track musical thrill ride that consists of live recordings from the Wayne Shorter Quartet’s European tour in late 2011, the one exception being the 23-minute tone poem “Pegasus,” which features the quartet with The Imani Winds recorded at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. The album features six new Shorter compositions, as well as new versions of his tunes “Orbits” (from Miles Davis’ Miles Smiles album) and “Plaza Real” (from the Weather Report album Procession). The quartet also reinvents the title song from the 1933 musical film Flying Down To Rio, which film buffs (such as Shorter) know as the first on-screen pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. The events in his incredible life’s journey have been compiled by author Michelle Mercer in Footprints: The Life And Music of Wayne Shorter (A Tarcher/Penguin hardcover).
DANILO PÉREZ GRAMMY award winner Danilo Pérez is among the most influential and dynamic musicians of our time. In just over a decade, his distinctive blend of Pan-American jazz (covering the music of the Americas, folkloric and world music) has attracted critical acclaim and loyal audiences. Danilo’s abundant talents and joyous enthusiasm make his concerts both memorable and inspiring. Whether 2017 Spring Program 43
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appeared on Sandoval’s GRAMMY®-winning album, Danzon. Since the late ‘80s, he has toured and/or recorded with Wayne Shorter, Steve Lacy, Jack DeJohnette, Charlie Haden, Michael Brecker, Joe Lovano, Tito Puente, Wynton Marsalis, John Patitucci, Tom Harrell, Gary Burton, and Roy Haynes. “Roy Haynes Trio (Verve 2000) was named one of the best albums of the year by Gary Giddins, critic for The Village Voice: “(This CD) displayed Danilo’s skills perfectly – glinting technique, an expressive melodic gift, and unerring time . . .”
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leading his own ensembles or touring with renowned jazz masters (Wayne Shorter, Roy Haynes, Steve Lacy), Danilo is making a decidedly fresh imprint on contemporary music, guided, as always, by his love for jazz. He has led his own groups since the early ‘90s, and as bandleader has earned three GRAMMY® nominations for his ebullient and innovative recordings. Motherland, was nominated for two GRAMMY® Awards for “Best Latin Jazz Album,” and also garnered his third win for “Best Jazz Album” from the prestigious Boston Music Awards. Motherland was named (as were his previous four releases) among the best albums of the year by such publications as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, San Diego Tribune, Billboard and JazzTimes. In 2002, he received a nomination from the Jazz Journalists Association for “Pianist of the Year.” Born in Panama in 1965, Danilo started his musical studies at just three years of age with his father, a bandleader and singer. By age 10, he was studying the European classical piano repertoire at the National Conservatory in Panama. After receiving his bachelor’s degree in electronics, he moved to the United States to enroll at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and, after changing his major to music, transferred to the prestigious Berklee College of Music. From 1985-88, while completing his studies in jazz composition, he performed with Jon Hendricks, Terence Blanchard, Claudio Roditi and Paquito D’Rivera, and produced the critically-acclaimed Reunion album (Messidor) featuring D’Rivera and Arturo Sandoval: in 1994, Danilo also
Danilo first attracted the spotlight as the youngest member of Dizzy Gillespie’s United Nations Orchestra (1989-1992). This pivotal tenure solidified his command of the eclectic, post-bop Latin style, and brought him to the forefront on Gillespie’s GRAMMY ® Award-winning recording, Live At The Royal Festival Hall (Enja), an appearance at the Kennedy Center, and worldwide touring. In 1993, Danilo turned his focus to his own ensembles and recording projects. A bold, ingenious bandleader, he moved into the spotlight once again, this time for his own RCA/Novus CDs - Danilo Pérez (1993) and The Journey (1994). The Journey placed prominently in several Top Ten Albums of 1994 lists. DownBeat gave it 4 1/2 stars and listed it among the best CDs of the ‘90s; it also received a Jazziz Critics Choice Award. In 1995, Danilo became the first Latin member of Wynton Marsalis’ band, and the first jazz musician to perform with the Panamanian Symphony Orchestra, which featured an expanded 80-piece orchestral version of “The Journey.” He also released two recordings for impulse! – PanaMonk (1996) and Central Avenue (1998) – and won his first GRAMMY® nomination for “Best Jazz Album” for the latter; The New York Times praised PanaMonk as “a masterpiece of jazz synthesis.” These four CDs accumulated numerous awards and Top Ten citations, firmly establishing Danilo’s leadership role in a new generation of jazz artists. Danilo also is part of the Wayne Shorter Quartet which won a GRAMMY in 2006 with their record Beyond The Sound Barrier. The group was voted “Best Small Ensemble of the Year” by the Jazz Journalists Association in 2002 and 2004. He is featured on Shorter’s
Verve releases, Alegria and Footprints Live!, which received Five Stars from DownBeat. Shorter invited Danilo to join his first all-acoustic group after hearing him play, “It was adventurous and fresh,” Shorter observes (Jazz Times, 2002). “He wasn’t playing to show off his technique. He was interested in telling stories.” Favorably compared to the ‘60s Miles Davis group that featured Shorter, the new quartet displays a remarkable freedom. Pérez, who served as Goodwill Ambassador to UNICEF, has received a variety of awards for his musical achievements, activism and social work efforts. He currently serves as UNESCO Artist for Peace, Cultural Ambassador to the Republic of Panama, Founder and Artistic Director of the Panama Jazz Festival, and Artistic Director of the Berklee Global Jazz Institute in Boston’s Berklee College of Music. His latest album, Children Of The Light, a collaboration with fellow Wayne Shorter Quartet members John Patitucci and Brian Blade was released on Mack Avenue in September of 2015.
JOHN PATITUCCI John Patitucci has been at the forefront of the jazz world for the last 30 years and active in all styles of music. He is a three-time GRAMMY award winner, has been nominated over 14 times and has played on many other GRAMMY award-winning recordings. John’s latest cd, Remembrance, features saxophonist Joe Lovano and drummer Brian Blade. Both Remembrance and John’s 2007 release, Line by Line, were nominated for
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GRAMMYs for Best Instrumental Jazz Album. In 2005, as a member of The Wayne Shorter Quartet, John won a GRAMMY for Best Instrumental Jazz Album. John was also nominated for a GRAMMY in 2004 for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying a Vocal, and in 2003 for Best Instrumental Composition for a piece entitled, “Communion” which features Branford Marsalis, Brad Mehldau and violist Lawrence Dutton of the Emerson String Quartet. John has won many magazine polls and awards as a double bassist and bass guitarist. He has performed and/or recorded with jazz giants such as Dizzy Gillespie, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Stan Getz, Freddie Hubbard, Roy Haynes, Wynton Marsalis, Michael Brecker, Kenny Garrett, Victor Feldman, Nancy Wilson and countless others. John has been active as a composer with 13 solo recordings of his own. He has also been commissioned to write for various chamber music groups. British composer Mark Anthony Turnage wrote a bass concerto for John (A Prayer Out of Stillness), which had its premiere performances in 2007 with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, the Estonian National Symphony and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and in 2008 with the Trondheim Symphony of Norway and the St. Louis Symphony. The Scottish Chamber Orchestra performance was featured on a live broadcast by the BBC throughout Europe. John performed this piece in February 2013 with the London Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Patitucci has been involved in education for many years, writing books, making instructional videos and giving master classes around the world. His latest instructional book is entitled “Melodic Arpeggios and Triad Combining” and will be published by David Gage early this year. John was formerly the Artistic Director of The Bass Collective, a specialized school in New York. From 2002-2012, he was a Professor of Music at The City College of New York. John is currently Artist in Residence at Berklee College of Music’s Global Jazz Institute. In 2012, John also launched his interactive online bass school through ArtistWorks (artistworks.com). John continues his active career playing, recording, composing, and concertizing.
BRIAN BLADE Brian Blade is widely respected in the jazz world as drummer, composer, leader of Brian Blade and The Fellowship Band, with whom he has released three albums. The multi-talented young veteran is also known as the drummer for many heroes of the music world, including Daniel Lanois, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Wayne Shorter, Seal, Bill Frisell and Emmylou Harris. Blade was born on July 25, 1970, in Shreveport, Louisiana. His mother, Dorothy Blade is a retired kindergarten teacher and his father, Brady L. Blade, Sr., is the pastor of the Zion Baptist Church in Shreveport. During his childhood, Brian would hear Gospel music in his everyday life, as well as the music of Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Earth, Wind and Fire, and the Staple Singers. In elementary school, his music appreciation teacher, Lucy Bond, introduced her students to the music of Maurice Ravel and in this class, Brian would play the recorder and various melodic percussion instruments associated with the Carl Orff pedagogy. From about age nine to age 13, Brian played violin in the school orchestra and continued to play until following in the footsteps of his older brother, Brady l. Blade, Jr., who played the drums in the Zion church. During high school, both Brady, Jr., and Brian were students of Dorsey Summerfield, Jr. and performed as part of Dorsey’s professional group, the Polyphonics. During this time and through his experience with Mr. Summerfield, Brian began listening to the music of John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Art Blakey, Thelonious Monk, Elvin Jones, and Joni Mitchell. In 1988, Brian moved to New Orleans to attend Loyola University. It was at this time that Brian would become friends with Jon Cowherd. Both Brian and Jon were able to study and play with most of the master musicians living in New Orleans, including: John Vidacovich, Ellis Marsalis, Steve Masakowski, Bill Huntington, Mike Pellera, John Mahoney, George French, Germaine Bazzle, David Lee, Jr., Alvin Red Tyler, Tony Dagradi and Harold Battiste. There were many inspiring musicians living and visiting New Orleans who helped Brian in his development. Some of these friends are Chris Thomas, Peter Martin, Nicholas Payton, Antoine Drye,
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Martin Butler, Delfeayo Marsalis, Joshua Redman, Harry Connick, Jr., Gray Mayfield, Marcus Roberts, and Victor Goines. In 1998, Brian and Jon Cowherd began recording their own music with the group Fellowship. The band members are Chris Thomas, Myron Walden, Kurt Rosenwinkel and Melvin Butler. They have released 3 albums together – Fellowship and Perceptual, both on Blue Note, and the 2008 Verve recording, Season of Changes. Blade has been part of the Wayne Shorter Quartet with Danilo Pérez and John Patitucci Since 2000.
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FILMMAKER STATEMENT For me, this project began with a simple question from my teenaged son. We had been discussing how, regrettably, his generation seems like it is going to be burdened with serious challenges. I found myself giving him a pep talk, saying that it was up to him and his peers to make changes that are desperately needed. He shook his head and said, “Dad, we go to rallies, and we watch the news, and we talk. But nothing really ever happens. People just complain. No one really has any power to fix these things.” Suddenly, Evan Wolfson came to mind. I said to my son, “I want you to meet someone I grew up with.” I hadn’t talked to Evan in decades though, of course, I’d been following him in the news. We had grown up together in Pittsburgh; our parents have been close friends for over 60 years. Evan is six years older than me, so I can’t say we were really friends as children. I knew him mainly through hand-me-down clothes, and from hearing my mother’s awestruck stories of his legendary intellect. It was clear that, while my own parents had high hopes for me, they projected nothing short of greatness for Evan. I can only imagine that when Evan—and Mary Bonauto, and so many others—began
their journey to achieve the right to marry the person of their choice, the road ahead must have looked nearly endless and treacherous. The notion was not only resoundingly dismissed by non-gays, but even by most LGBT folks. After Evan began banging his drum, three United States Presidents in a row railed against the idea. The vitriol was intense. Evan, along with some in his growing movement, remained undaunted. With a mindful eye on other civil rights movements and cases (Loving v Virginia, etc), Evan charted a cogent course of action, which he stood by for the next 25 years. Changing the laws in America, he understood, required changing the ideology of a nation. It meant helping nongay people understand that gays and lesbians were simply people. It meant gaining the trust of millions of closeted gay people, who had so much to lose, but whose stories and bravery was needed. The movement needed people to share their tales. One thing that this campaign showed us is how important it is to share our personal stories. As a documentary filmmaker, I believe strongly in that. Nonetheless, it’s staggering to see what occurs when personal stories are shared on a widespread level. When people are willing to reveal who they really are, and when others listen, centuries of ingrained discrimination can begin to ease. That’s not to say that the challenges facing gay people have been alleviated with a single Supreme Court decision; far from it. But winning marriage was never meant to be the ‘end of the road’. From the start, Evan had intended to use the marriage fight as a way to claim a seat at the table. He understood that, by demanding equal rights in this regard, a host of other ingrained issues would soon become fair game. That strategy turned out to be, perhaps, Evan’s most brilliant stroke, and why this campaign has become ‘the playbook for social change.’ Though he is now recognized as the architect, or the ‘Godfather’ of the same sex marriage movement, Evan Wolfson is a pretty regular guy. He lives in a one-bedroom apartment with his spouse, he prefers to eat at diners and you might not notice him if you passed him in the street. But he is tenacious. And he always believed that America is a place where 2017 Spring Program 49
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Even though we know the campaign ends with a win, observing the cat-and-mouse legal game is exhilarating, and the outcome is satisfying… – The New York Times problems can be fixed, where equality can be had, and where the promise of our nation can made fuller with every generation. I had hoped in the beginning simply to share these ideas with my children. I’m extremely grateful that Evan, Mary and their movement allowed me to join them for the last leg of their journey, to share their ups and downs, their tears and joys with others as well.
FILMMAKER BIOGRAPHIES EDDIE ROSENSTEIN, PRODUCER/DIRECTOR Eddie Rosenstein is a documentary filmmaker, living in New York City. His films are about a wide range of subjects, but are mostly about regular people doing extraordinary things, often against great odds. His previous work
includes: A Tickle in the Heart (producer, 1996) about the world’s greatest Klezmer musicians, who were ‘discovered’ as senior citizens; Waging a Living (co-director, 2003) for which Rosenstein followed three low-wage families for three years, capturing their attempts to extricate themselves from poverty; School Play, (co-producer/director 2008) a hilarious tale of fifth graders pushed to the limit by their grade school play; Sandhogs (producer/ director, 2008) about the legendary and wild band of urban miners, without whom New York City could not possibly exist; and Boatlift (Producer/Director, 2011) a short film narrated by Tom Hanks that tells the epic tale of the 9/11 boatlift, which evacuated half a million people from the stricken seawalls of Lower Manhattan. Eddie has also produced television programming for networks including A&E, TruTV, History, Discovery ID, HBO. PBS and AMC, and has won dozens
Jenni Olson’s stunning urban landscape films have earned wide acclaim for their unique storytelling style. Her most recent feature-length essay film, The Royal Road premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015 and recently won the Best LGBTQ Film Award at the prestigious Ann Arbor Film Festival. Jenni’s debut feature, The Joy of Life premiered at Sundance in 2005 and earned many awards. A queer media historian, activist and online pioneer Jenni is a former festival co-director of Frameline: the San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival (1992-1994) and is one of the founders of the LGBT website PlanetOut.com (in 1995). She is also one of the world’s leading experts on LGBT film history and a founding advisory board member of the UCLA/Outfest Legacy Project for LGBT Film Preservation.
BOB RICHMAN, CINEMATOGRAPHER Bob Richman has served as director of photography on some of the most notable documentaries of the past two decades. His films include: The Inconvenient Truth, Waiting for Superman, Paradise Lost (1, 2 and 3), Brother’s Keeper, My Architect, A Tickle in the Heart, The September Issue and Metallica: Some Kind of Monster. Films he has shot have been nominated for multiple Academy and Emmy Awards, have won the grand jury prize at Sundance and have been shown in theaters and on television around the world.
CLAUDIA RASCHKE, CINEMATOGRAPHER Claudia Raschke is best-known for her ability to bring the rich tones of the motion picture medium to a diverse spectrum of films, from highly stylized commercial endeavors to behavioral documentaries to lower-budget works of art. Raschke has worked on four Oscar-nominated documentaries, including Mad Hot Ballroom, Small Wonders and My Architect. Her recent film Particle Fever won DuPont, as well as many festival prizes and was screened in theaters around the world. 2017 Spring Program 51
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KEY CAST BIOGRAPHIES EVAN WOLFSON, SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ACTIVIST Wolfson is known as the national architect of the same-sex marriage movement. Having written his third year thesis paper at Harvard Law in 1983 on the subject, Wolfson began advocating for the freedom to marry when almost every gay rights leader was adverse. People thought he was ‘crazy’, and that he was seriously overreaching. After AIDS ravaged the LGBT community, and the need for legal protections became clear, Wolfson (as an attorney at Lambda Legal Aid) renewed his push for marriage. He claimed not only that same sex marriage could only become a legal reality, but that by working towards that goal, LGBT Americans could improve their status on a huge host of other fronts. In the early 1990s, Wolfson helped fight the first successful legal marriage court battle in Hawaii. As the movement began to gain traction, he founded, FREEDOM TO MARRY, a not-for-profit that spearheaded the strategy and the national campaign. His
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genius came from an acute understanding of history, and other civil rights campaigns. His catch-phrases like, “wins trump losses”, and “there is no marriage without engagement” underpinned what soon become a national and international movement. Evan was first to understand that, while marriage battles could be won in court, it would require changing the ideology of the nation— helping non-gay people understand that gays and lesbians were ‘people too’ - to make ‘wins’ happen, and to make them stick. As he predicted, his early efforts were met with intense opposition from the masses, the Church and even the White House. Unperturbed, Wolfson helped devise and implement a cohesive strategy that included public education, grassroots mobilization, PR, polling, messaging, fundraising, social media campaigns and carefully orchestrated legal efforts. Evan, himself, spent decades criss-crossing America, speaking at every event, large and small, guiding and leading the campaign to win hearts, minds and victories. These efforts led to his eventual moniker, Mr. Marriage. Wolfson began working on the marriage movement, there was not a single town in America where gay people had even a shred of legal protection. As of this writing, gay marriage is now legal not only throughout America, but in 22 other countries on five continents. Ironically, having fought the government for decades and won, ironically, Wolfson eventually put himself out of business. Having achieved his organization’s stated mission, he happily closed Freedom to Marry in December 2015. His staff (with this remarkable victory on their resume) has gone on to key positions at other LBGT and civil rights organizations throughout the United States. After a short vacation, Evan returned to New York, where he resides with his husband, Cheng He. He has become extremely active in a variety of other campaigns for social justice (including LGBT anti-discrimination) not only in this country, but around the world. Interestingly, much of his current work is now currently sponsored by the U.S. State Department, which has requested Evan to provide his expertise to other nations currently embarking on same sex marriage battles.
MARY BONAUTO, CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY Bonauto, the legendary civil rights attorney (from Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders), was chosen by her peers to argue the ultimate marriage case before the United States Supreme Court. To most, this was no surprise. Mary was the one of movement’s star attorneys and perhaps the leading legal voice for over three decades. Having come out as a lesbian in college in the 1980s and fully aware of the discrimination that LGBT citizens were being subjected to, Mary began her career after law school at Northeastern University as a young and passionate civil rights attorney at GLAD (GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders), in Boston. Mary believed, as Evan Wolfson did, that marriage was a legal right. However, she too was hamstrung and frustrated by a sense that “it just wasn’t the right time to go for it.” The tectonic shift came as Wolfson and Dan Foley, Wolfson’s legal partner in the Hawaii case, began to gain traction in the Hawaii case. By 1993, leaders from the movement’s main legal organizations - including ACLU, Lambda Legal, NCLR and GLAD - began meeting regularly to plan a cohesive marriage strategy. It was at these ‘round tables’ that Wolfson and Bonauto became close friends and colleagues. As Evan worked on the Hawaii case (which sent political shockwaves throughout the nation, even inspiring the federal government to throw down the gauntlet with the seriously discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act, in 1996), Wolfson and Bonauto began devising a long term, state by state strategy. Bonauto helped guide the next ‘front’ in the battle, in Vermont. 1997, Bonauto on behalf of GLAD, along with Beth Robinson and Susan Murray, filed a lawsuit in Vermont on behalf of three couples seeking the freedom to marry. After an intense legal and grassroots battle, they won in half measure, scoring a newly invented device called civil unions for same sex couples, which bestowed many of the rights and benefits, but still preventing them from getting married. Bonauto considered the victory tantamount to a form of segregation and was far from satisfied. Her next major effort was the landmark case, Goodridge v The Department of Public 2017 Spring Program 53
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unperturbed and, in their care, all of the children began to thrive. It soon became apparent to both mothers that they hoped to do more than just foster these children; they wanted to provide them with the emotional, legal and financial protections of a real family so they began the process of adoption. However, in the state of Michigan, same sex marriage was illegal, and it was also illegal for non-married people to co-adopt. As a stop-gap, DeBoer and Rowse each adopted two of the children, with the fifth child in the process still.
Evan Wolfson and Mary Bonauto, The Freedom to Marry Heath, which began in 2001. In this case, Bonauto scored the movement’s first full victory, making Massachusetts the nation’s first ‘marriage state’. It took five more years to defend that case from political attacks, during which the marriage fight ratcheted up to a fever pitch, with Wolfson branching off to lead the overall campaign and strategy, and attorneys like Bonauto, Shannon Minter, Kate Kendall, James Esseks, Jon Davidson, Susan Sommer and Roberta Kaplan, leading a widening cascade of legal battles. A passionate, tireless civil rights advocate, Mary involves herself in every aspect of every campaign, including political and grassroots efforts. She’s known not only for her brilliant legal strategies, but for her willingness to do everything it takes, including canvasing door to door, to persuade voters, legislators and judges to side with her causes. In March 2013, Roberta Kaplan, the lawyer arguing for DOMA repeal in the Supreme Court, told the New York Times, “No gay person in this country would be married without Mary Bonauto.” Former U.S. Representative Barney Frank said “She’s our Thurgood Marshall.” She was named a MacArthur Fellow in September 2014 for her work “breaking down legal barriers based on sexual orientation”. In 2015, as the ‘consolidated marriage case’, called Obergefell v Hodges headed to the United States Supreme Court, movement
colleagues chose Bonauto to argue on behalf of the marriage plaintiffs, specifically, April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse, from Michigan. On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Bonauto and the plaintiffs, thus declaring all state bans on same-sex marriage unconstitutional. Having won this landmark victory, Mary Bonauto barely took a pause in her exhaustive schedule. She continues to commute from Portland, Maine, where she lives with her wife Jennifer Wriggins and their twin daughters, to GLAD’s offices in Boston, where she leads an extensive anti-discrimination caseload.
APRIL DEBOER AND JAYNE ROWSE, PLAINTIFFS Mary Bonauto’s plaintiffs have been together for more than 15 years. Jayne is an emergency room nurse, April is a neo-natal nurse. They live in Hazel Park, Michigan. April and Jayne tried for years to have children, including costly, fruitless and heartbreaking attempts at surrogate parenting and artificial insemination. After several difficult experiences, they relegated themselves to foster parenting. Over the years, they took in five children, including some extremely challenging cases. Two of the children were born three months premature. One was born with severe drug addictions. Several have developmental delays and medical issues. DeBoer and Rowse were
Before long, DeBoer and Rowse, became increasingly aware of the fragility of their situation. “If something happened to one of us,” Deboer said, “at least two of our children could be taken away, just like that.” Enlisting the help of Michigan attorneys Carole Stanyar and Dana Nessel, they sued for joint adoption. That lawsuit was amended in 2012 to challenge Michigan’s gay marriage ban, which as approved by voters in 2004. DeBoer and Rowse won in district court, but Judge Bernard Friedman’s ruling was overturned by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, along with cases from Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. Together, those four cases became the basis of Obergefell v Hodges, also known as, “The Marriage Case”, which the Supreme Court chose to hear in 2015, with Mary Bonauto arguing for these plaintiffs. After the conclusion of Obergefell, DeBoer and Rowse finally married in August 2015. They jointly adopted all five children soon after. April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse call themselves, “accidental activists”, for they had no intention of becoming ‘the face of the national movement.’ They prefer quiet time at home (if time spent with five children and dogs can ever be called quiet.) They laughingly refer to trips to the supermarket ‘date nights’… and they are quite happy that their battle to be a legal family is complete.
MARC SOLOMON, NATIONAL CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR Marc Solomon knew he was gay by the time he was 13, “Bar Mitzvah age”. But, growing up a jock in Kansas City, Marc really didn’t want to be gay. He tried everything to avoid it: dating women, therapy, denial, Rabbinic counseling, etc. Much to his liberal parents’ 2017 Spring Program 55
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chagrin, he even became a hardcore Reagan republican, so that no one would think him to be effeminate. After getting a degree from Yale University, Marc went to work on Capital Hill, becoming a trusted aide to Jack Danforth (R), the United States Senator from Missouri. As he learned the political ropes, he continued to seek counseling for his lack of attraction to women. Meanwhile, he did not dare date men. Solomon returned to school, to obtain a masters degree in public administration from the Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Realizing that “I was as gay at 30 as I was at 13,” Solomon finally start dating men, and decided to use his political skills on behalf of LGBT issues. He began working on marriage equality as a volunteer for the Massachusetts Freedom to Marry Coalition. After Bonauto’s dramatic victory in the Goodridge case, Solomon became the full-time legislative director of the Massachusetts Freedom to Marry Coalition. He then became political director of MassEquality. In January 2006, Solomon took the helm of MassEquality, and led the state-wide charge which defeated a constitutional amendment that would have barred same-sex couples from marrying. The final vote on the amendment, which took place on June 14, 2007, was 151 opposed and 45 in favor, holding supporters just beneath the 25 percent threshold they required.
It was after having achieved such an astounding and dramatic legislative victory, Solomon then moved to New York, where he joined Evan Wolfson at Freedom to Marry, as the National Campaign Director.
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FILMMAKER STATEMENT “I moved to the eastside of Los Angeles 10 years ago. I didn’t own a car for most of the last decade and, yes, I actually walked in LA. Walking gave me a great chance to see the hidden neighborhoods away from the main roads and get to know interesting people outside the film industry. Like Charles Bukowski, I am inspired by this bittersweet and seedy side of town. After graduating from the directing program of the American Film Institute, I was financially crippled by student loan debt. I was writing spec scripts that I really didn’t believe in for a spec market that really doesn’t exist anymore and shooting no budget short films that no one would ever see. But, I had also gotten married and had two amazing children. I was fulfilled in my personal life, but frustrated with my creative one. My repeated professional disappointments were really
starting to affect my relationships. I wondered if I should just focus on being the best dad and husband I could be and put all this juvenile filmmaking nonsense behind me. If my debut was also my swan song, so be it. My co-writer/lead actor Tomas Pais and I channeled our LA experiences into a project that took elements from both our lives to create a tale about an unconventional father who can’t grow up and let go of his rockand-roll dreams. It’s a tale about a man who walks in LA, struggling with the fear of mediocrity and raising a child while comingof-age himself. The film was shot in 10 days on a shoestring budget. I didn’t know just how in over our heads we were when we started production and how lucky we would be to come out on the other side with something that we could be proud of. Your life should inspire your work, not the other way around. You shouldn’t put any part of your life on hold for you art. Life is what takes your work to the next level. You don’t give up any part of yourself for your work or your family, you just need to find balance.” The Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers is a program of South Arts. This screening is supported in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. Hunky Dory
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