TPA 2022 Program: Nathalie Joachim & Spektral Quartet and Angélique Kidjo

Nathalie Joachim and Spektral Quartet Fanm d’Ayiti

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Fanm d’Ayiti celebrates some of Haiti’s most iconic female artists and explores Joachim’s Haitian heritage.

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Welcome to Texas Performing Arts!

We’re so glad you’re here. As we close out our 40th Season, we’re looking back at some of the highlights we’ve experienced together over the past several months. As in-person live performance returned to normal, your willingness to participate and engage kept us going. We can’t thank you enough for being a part of this historic season, and we can’t wait for you to see what we’re working on for 2022-23.

We hope you were able to catch Ballet Hispánico in Bass Concert Hall last October. Making their first Austin appearance in well over a decade, the company demonstrated why they’re America’s largest and most significant Latinx cultural organization with a delightful program of new and classic choreography. The inimitable Kronos Quartet came to town in November to perform the world premiere of At War with Ourselves by acclaimed composer Michael Abels and award-winning poet Nikky Finney. Four centuries of Black American history were told and re-told in a stunning mélange of string quartet, spoken word and vocal accompaniment from Austin’s own Inversion Ensemble. We were honored to present the Texas debut of legendary experimental theatre pioneers The Wooster Group in January. Their stunning work THE B-SIDE: Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons moved audiences with a unique “record album interpretation” that breathed new life and meaning into work songs captured in east Texas prison farms in the 1960s. And most recently, we transformed the Blue Genie Art Bazaar into The Plastic Bag Store, a pop-art art installation and immersive film experience that was quite unlike anything Austin has seen before.

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Apr 22, 2022

Bates Recital Hall

Nathalie Joachim and Spektral Quartet Fanm d’Ayiti

Clara Lyon, violin Theo Espy, violin Doyle Armbrust, viola Russell Rolen, cello

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Program Fanm d’Ayiti

Traditional Haitian song, arranged

by Nathalie Joachim

Papa Loko

Traditional Haitian song, arranged

by Nathalie Joachim

Manman’m voye’m peze kafe

Composer: Emerante de Pradines (1918–2018), arranged by Nathalie Joachim

Legba na konsole

Composer: Emerante de Pradines (1918–2018), arranged by Nathalie Joachim

Madan Bellegarde

Composer: Nathalie Joachim (1983–present) Featuring the voice of my grandmother, Ipheta Fortuma

Suite pou Dantan

Prelid Alléluia Resevwa li Composer: Nathalie Joachim (1983–present) Featuring the Girls Choir of Ecole Presbyteral Fatima de Dantan, Haiti

Mèsi Jezi

Composer: Nathalie Joachim (1983–present) Featuring the voice of my grandmother, Ipheta Fortuma

Lamize pa dous

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Traditional Haitian song, arranged

by Nathalie Joachim

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ABOUT NATHALIE JOACHIM My journey to Fanm d’Ayiti started in late 2015, shortly after the passing of my maternal grandmother. She and I spent many a cherished moment underneath the mango and coconut trees in her yard in Haiti — and in my childhood home in America — singing songs with one another. It was our way of telling each other stories, and her way of passing on a centuries-long cultural practice of oral history. She taught me to embrace and share my heart freely through song, without fear of judgment. This honesty and absence of judgment is how she lived her life, as can be heard in her own words on “Madan Bellegarde”, one of the programs featured works.

Her absence ignited a deep desire for understanding in me. In what ways did our voices connect with the voices of other Haitian women? What did our songs tell us about our past, and what might they mean for the future?

The foundation of Fanm d’Ayiti began to reveal itself readily through conversation: with my family, and with others willing to share their piece of our cultural puzzle. These exchanges led me to learn about dozens of Haitian female artists, each committed to carrying forward the story of the first free black republic — people known for making treasured somethings out of nothing. These women used their voices to uplift future generations by celebrating our strength.

In Fanm d’Ayiti I share recordings from my conversations with three women: Emerante de Pradines, 16 texasperformingarts.org

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mother’s are intertwined with recordings of the girl’s choir from my family’s farming village of Dantan, sending their voices into heaven with hope for tomorrow. I feel lucky to be joining my voice with theirs, bringing listeners a sonic portfolio of my originals and arrangements of historic Haitian songs, woven together in a musical celebration of activism and hope.

The entrance to my grandmother’s yard was a beautiful archway of red hibiscus flowers — her favorite, and a national emblem of Haiti. Walking through that archway into her light was a rite of passage.

This album has also welcomed me into a space of self-discovery and historical reckoning, guided by the irrepressible spirit of my ancestors...a revelation now given voice through Fanm d’Ayiti.

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a prized voice of Haiti’s Golden Age; Milena Sandler, daughter of the late, famed chanteuse Toto Bissainthe; and celebrated vodou songstress Carole Demesmin.

Emerante, at 98 years old, speaks of our connection to one another as female Haitian artists and a deep need to return home and help our people. This is one of her final recorded interviews prior to her passing in January 2018.

Milena speaks of her mother’s devotion to authentic artistry and social justice, driving her to sing freedom songs fearlessly in the face of notorious Haitian dictator FranÇois Duvalier. Carole speaks of using her songs to offer light in a time of darkness in Haiti, and of advancing the work of Emerante and Toto into the next generation.

These voices and my grand-

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SONG LYRICS AND TRANSLATIONS Fanm d’Ayiti Se nou ki bay lavi Se nou ki te chanje li San nou latè ta vid San nou lavi ta tris Depi latè fleri Fanm toujou ap redi Nan peyi d’Ayiti Konbit pa fèt san nou Nan bwa kayiman sonje n te la Lè lendepandans o n toutan la Lè l t ap fè drapo sa Se nou ki te koud li Jodi a fò n kanpe vanyan di Ayibobo Nan peyi k gen lefwe Se nou k te Kòmande Kou l sizè di swa Tout gason monte bwa E si yo pa t gen zèl Se nou ankò k ba yo Nan peyi k gen lefwe Se nou k te Kòmande Fanm d’Ayiti kanpe Tankou tout fanm vanyan Pou reklame dwa nou Pou n di viv libète Pou n di viv libète It is us who give life It is us who changed it Without us, the world would be empty Without us, life would be sad Since the world began blooming Women have always worked hard In the country of Haiti Community can’t be created without us Remember that we were at Bwa Kayiman We were also there at the texasperformingarts.org

time of independence When the flag was made It was us who sewed it Today we valiantly stand and say Ayibobo In countries that have been captured We are the Commanders After six o’clock All the boys climb their branches And if they don’t have wings It is also us who provides them In countries that have been captured We are the Commanders Women of Haiti stand Like all valiant women To reclaim our rights To say freedom lives To say freedom lives Papa Loko Papa Loko ou se van Pouse n ale Nou se papiyon N ap pote nouvèl bay Agwe E tout sa ki di byen Je m la e E tout sa ki di mal Je m la e Papa Loko ou se van Pouse n ale Nou se papiyon N ap pote nouvèl bay Agwe Pawòl papa Loko Pawòl anpil Papa Loko, you are the wind Pushing us to go We are butterflies 19

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Bringing your news to Agwe And all that you say is good Belongs to me And all that you say is bad Belongs to me Papa Loko, you are the wind Pushing us to go We are butterflies Bringing your news to Agwe The words of Papa Loko So many words Traditional Haitian song, arranged by Nathalie Joachim Manman m voye m peze kafe Manman m voye m peze kafe o Annarivan mwen sou pòtay la mwen jwenn jandam arete m Mezanmi anmwe sa ma di lakay lè ma rive Mezanmi mesye sa ma di lakay lè ma rive Mezanmi anmwe sa ma di lakay lè ma rive My mother sent me to get the coffee pressed When I got down to the road, a policeman arrested me My goodness, what am I going to say when I get home?

My goodness, sir, what am I going to say when I get home?

My goodness, what am I going to say when I get home?

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Wawa vodou nèg a Legba na konsole Legba will console us Apibo will console us All of you vodou spirits, Legba will console us Original song by Emerante de Pradines, arranged by Nathalie Joachim Madan Bellegarde Madan Bellegarde kondane Wi, li kondane Li kondane devan pechè Li pa kondane devan Bondye Madan Bellegarde is condemned Yes, she is condemned She is condemned before sinners She is not condemned before God Lyrics by Ipheta Fortuma, music by Nathalie Joachim Suite pou Dantan: Prelid Lanmou Bondye gen pou nou Ap dire toutan gen tan Menm si yon manman ta bliye pitit li Mwen menm Granmèt la Mwen p ap janm bliye ou Mòn yo met kraze Plenn yo te mèt tranble Amou mwen pou ou pa gen dwa disparèt The love that God has for us Will last forever Even if a mother forgets her children I, your God, will never forget you The world may be breaking The earth may be shaking But my love for you will 21

never disappear Lyrics from a traditional Haitian song, music by Nathalie Joachim Suite pou Dantan: Allèluia Je t’ai tant cherchè mon seigneur et mon roi Je t’ai tant cherchè dans la nuit Et moi tu m’as dit que tu ètais la vie Alors je chante, Allèluia I have searched for you so much, my God and my king I have searched for you so much through the night And you told me that you were life So I sing, Alleluia Lyrics from a traditional church hymn, music by Nathalie Joachim Suite pou Dantan: Resevwa li Men n’ap proche devan ou Granmèt Avèk tout ti kado n yo papa Li mèt tout piti kou li ye, Tanpri resevwa li Adye papa souple Kisa pou m ta ba ou Ou ki fè tout bagay Ou ki mèt tout bagay Kado nou pot pou ou Se tout jefò n ap fe Pou peyi n devlope Pou lavi nou pi bèl.

We come before you, God With all of our little gifts, Father As little as they may be Please receive them Oh father, please What should I give you

You, who makes everything You, who creates everything The gifts we bring to you Are all of our efforts To benefit our country For our lives to be the most beautiful Lyrics from a traditional Haitian song, music by Nathalie Joachim Lamizè pa dous Mwen malad m kouche m pa ka leve Palmannan o, m pa moun isit o Bondye rele m m prale Mwen malad Palmannan Bondye rele m m prale Gade m malad Palmannan Bondye rele m m prale Palmannan o M pa moun isit o Bondye rele m m prale O Sàn o lamizè pa dous o, ago e Lamizè pa dous o, ago e M pral chache lavi en lòt kote o.

Nanpwen lavi ankò o Mezanmi mwen nanpwen lavi ankò o Vire isit se dlo Vire lòtbò son lòt dlo N ap pote wòch yo konble lanmè o Nanpwen lavi ankò o I’m sick, I’m resting, I can’t get up Palmannan, I’m not from this place God is calling me, I’m going I’m sick, Palmannan God is calling me, I’m going Look, I’m sick, Palmannan God is calling me, I’m going Palmannan I’m not from this place

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God is calling me, I’m going Oh spirits, misery is not sweet I’m going to find life in another place

Traditional Haitian song, arranged by Nathalie Joachim

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There is no life anymore My goodness, there is no life for me anymore Turn here, there’s water

Turn the other way, there’s other water We will carry rocks to fill the sea There is no life anymore

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ABOUT SPEKTRAL QUARTET The three-time Grammy nominated Spektral Quartet actively pursues a vivid conversation between exhilarating works of the traditional repertoire and those written this decade, this year, or this week.

Since its inception in 2010, Spektral is known for creating seamless connections across centuries, drawing in the listener with charismatic deliveries, interactive concert formats, an up-close atmosphere, and bold, inquisitive programming.

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With a tour schedule including some of the country’s most notable concert venues such as the Kennedy Center, Miller Theater, Library of Congress, and NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts, the quartet also takes great pride in its home city of Chicago: championing the work of local composers, bridging social and aesthetic partitions, and cultivating its ongoing residency at the University of Chicago.

Named “Chicagoans of the Year” by the Chicago Tribune in 2017, Spektral Quartet is most highly regarded for its creative and stylistic versatility: presenting seasons in which, for instance, a thematic program circling Beethoven seamlessly coexists with an improvised sonic meditation at

sunrise, a talent show featuring Spektral fans, and the co-release of a jazz album traversing the folk traditions of Puerto Rico.

First attracting national attention in 2013 with Mobile Miniatures — a project in which over 40 composers including David Lang, Shulamit Ran, and Nico Muhly were commissioned to write string quartet ringtones for mobile devices — Spektral has enhanced its scope and scale with each passing season to include new works from luminaries including Anna Thorvaldsdottir, George Lewis, and Augusta Read Thomas as well as launch three unique concert series in Chicago: Close Encounters elevates listeners’ enjoyment of non-mainstream music through gastronomy, architecture, and

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nature in exclusive settings; the Dovetail Series unites Chicago’s historically segregated north and south sides by way of improvisation and devised collaborations; and Once More, With Feeling! answers contemporary music’s most daunting hurdle by presenting an unfamiliar work twice on the same program, with a charismatic composer interview in between.

Distinguished artistic collaborators include Claire Chase (flutist, International Contemporary Ensemble founder, MacArthur fellow), Theaster Gates (artist, Rebuild Foundation founder), Julia Holter (critically-acclaimed songwriter), Nathalie Joachim (composer, Flutronix co-founder), Mark DeChiazza (choreographer with credits texasperformingarts.org

including Kronos Quartet, John Luther Adams, and Steven Mackey), and Miguel Zenón (saxophonist, MacArthur and Guggenheim fellow.)

Committed to not only sustaining, but transforming the string quartet tradition, Spektral Quartet is in-demand for its presentations on inclusion, progressive programming, and entrepreneurship at leading institutions around the country including Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect, the New World Symphony, and the National Association of Schools of Music.

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May 12, 2022

Bass Concert Hall

Angélique Kidjo Remain In Light

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ABOUT THE ALBUM

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Global pop star and 3-time Grammy winner Angélique Kidjo has partnered with 2015 Grammy producer of the year Jeff Bhasker (Kanye West, The Rolling Stones, Beyonce) for a full circle reimagining of Talking Heads’ 1980 landmark album Remain in Light that will be released June 8/ Kravenworks Records. The original album, considered to be one of the greatest albums of that decade, was influenced by music from West Africa, notably Fela Kuti’s afrobeat.

This remarkable new collaboration is a radical statement and positions the Benin-born artist as she’s never been heard before.

The diverse cast of collaborators includes Fela Kuti’s musical director Tony Allen on drums, Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig singing in Kidjo’s native tongue of Fon, Black Panther film score percussionist Magatte Sow, Blood Orange’s Davonté Hynes, the Antibalas horns with arrangements by Martin Perna, legendary studio bassist Pino Paladino, Angélique’s longtime guitarist Dominic James, African jazz guitarist Lionel Loueke among others. The album artwork was conceptualized by noted AfricanAmerican visual artist Kerry James Marshall, who counts the original album as an important creative touchstone.

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throughout 2018.

Kidjo first crossed paths with the original album when she fled Benin and moved to Paris in 1983.

She recognized it as African, but the rhythms were harder for her to place. It stayed with her, but she kept it to herself because some of her music teachers and fellow students at the time dismissed her opinions because she was a young African woman who wouldn’t, in their opinion, know anything about rock and roll. But the album continued to inhabit her subconscious.

Still inspired by the experience of recording the celebratory material for 2014’s Eve, she took other songs and folkloric tales she heard while researching Eve and wove them into the fabric of the Remain in Light songs, which she first recorded as demos in her home studio. Later when recording “Cross-eyed and Painless” with Tony Allen, she effortlessly dropped in lyrics from Fela Kuti’s ‘70s classic “Lady,” reaffirming and strengthening that initial inspiration while extending it into something new, modern and uplifting.

“I started working on Remain in Light and I would pick a song and it would match these Beninese traditional songs I heard,” she recalls. “It was just so organic and normal that the whole thing fell into place. You have all these puzzle pieces — you see the pictur appear and then you put the stuff in places.”

“It was a challenge reinterpreting this iconic masterpiece,” says Bhasker. “We didn’t simply want to “cover” what the brilliant producer Brian Eno and revolutionary Talking

Heads created, but rather put our own spin on it. Rip out its guts and turn it on its head.

As they were inspired to take an African form and rock it, we took rock and brought it back to Africa.

I think the result is a beautiful full circle experience that I hope enhances both worlds and brings culture closer together.”

Kidjo had met Bhasker at a benefit concert in London where he was the musical director and she was a guest of honor. The two instantly hit it off and the only sticking point was trying to figure out what they would do together.

They later met in Los Angeles where Bhasker told her he just needed a kernel of an idea. A short time later she sent him two Talking Heads demos — many of the vocal tracks were never rerecorded because the demo performances were so strong — and a week later he was onboard for the whole album.

“From the first day of the recording, we picked up right where we left off. It’s one of the most fun filled and enriching projects I’ve ever worked on; it’s the reason I make music,” Bhasker explains.

Remain in Light is made anew.

The first clue is the stunning new black light photo of Kidjo

by Kerry James Marshall. The African-ness of the sound comes out in same mesmerizing African polyrhythms that made the original so ground-breaking, but there are also different languages echoed in counter melodies of the haunting “The Overload,” the edgy “Listening Wind” and others that are added

by Kidjo.

The delivery of David Byrne’s lyrics is a classic study in contrasts

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don’t have much fear,” says Kidjo, who is also well known for her humanitarian efforts. “If you are inspired to do something, then there is truth in that. My music has been a weapon for constructing bridges. We have so much in common, yet we are so divided that we may not take a pause to think about what we may have in common. We think there is things to divide us, but not much divides us.”

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while embracing the bigger ideas.

Whereas the vocals were originally self-conscious, arty, ironic and sometimes alienated, Kidjo’s voice and additional lyrics are a clarion call that sheds new light on the politics in “Born Under Punches,” the empowerment of women on the “Great Curve” and tackling the African skin bleaching phenomenon on “Seen and Not Seen.”

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Mark Weiss and Janet Bray Susan and Chris Wilson with Bonita Grumme Jacqueline Wittmuss Dr. Lucas Wong and Dr. Lisa Go Michael Wynn and Elizabeth Kalamaha-Wynn CENTER STAGE $600-1,499 Anonymous (3) Dwain Aidala Mark Aitala Emily Allen and Ron Altizer Heather Andress Joe Annis Tony Aventa Donna and Manuel Ayala Addison, Sydney, Kori, and David Baker Jannis and Robert B. Baldwin III The Ballon Family Jana and Barry Bandera Travis and George Baxter-Holder Joshua Becker Dr. Steven A. Beebe James Benson Sophia Bera April Berman Crystal Berry-Roberts Carolyn and Jon Bible Tim and Grizelda Black Denis Blake Stephanie and Michael Blanck Dave and Nancy Bourell Robert Bracewell Steve and Jen Braud Brook and Gerald Broesche Janice and Charlie Brown Scott Brown and Cheri Lafrinea Jim and Josie Caballero Kristen and Luis Casaubon Daniel and Lynnette Caswell Shane Chambers Sewell Chan Avery John Chavez Sam and Alison Clare Sarah Compton Nicole Cornelson Jeanette Cortinas Elaine Daigle Wilma Dankovich Lorraine and John Davis Nhu and Randall DeBastiani Courtney and Adam Debower Lisa and Paul Delacruz Lucy Ditmore Jennifer Dixon Beth Domel Susan and David Donaldson Kevin Dowling

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made possible by the generous donations of J.C. Backings and the ADG Archives Backdrop Recovery Project. The collection of sixty-five historic paintings mirrors the research gathered by UT Austin Faculty co-authors Karen Maness and Richard Isackes to create their award-winning publication, The Art of the Hollywood Backdrop, Regan Arts 2016. Included in the collection are backings from iconic and critically acclaimed films such as National Velvet (MGM 1944), The Sound of Music (20th Century Fox 1965), Ben Hur (MGM 1959), and North by Northwest (MGM 1958), brought here to educate the next generation of artists in the Texas Performing Arts Fabrication Studios.

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Texas Performing Arts now owns the most extensive educational collection of Hollywood motion picture backdrops in the world,

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