TPA Program: Western Skies

WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY DARDEN SMITH

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The Women Drummers of Rwanda and playwright Kiki Katese joined the Carver Museum and community members for a special performance and discussion in conjunction with the Texas premiere of her acclaimed new play The Book of Life.

Members of celebrated contemporary dance company MOMIX led a workshop for ballet students in UT’s Theatre & Dance Department during the national tour of new dance work Alice. Photo by Aubrey Felty.

More than 1200 area students filled Bass Concert Hall for a special youth performance showcasing West African and African American drum, music, dance, and storytelling coordinated by Imani Aanu, co-founder of Austin-based artist collective Re-CLAIM. Photo by Robert Silver.

Killeen High School AP European History students attended a performance of the Broadway smash hit SIX: The Musical followed by a talkback with company members as part of TPA’s Broadway Experience for Youth program.

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Grammy Award-winning jazz composer Terence Blanchard accompanied the UT Jazz Orchestra and Ensemble for their final concert of the semester—part of his weeklong residency with Texas Performing Arts and the Butler School of Music. Photo by Manoo Sirivelu.

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Take a Bow! Austin’s own Langston Lee Wins National Jimmy Award

Last June the most talented teenagers from across the country took the stage at the Minskoff Theatre in New York City for the 14th National High School Musical Theatre Awards®, better known as the Jimmys. Among them, two Austin-area students, Langston Lee and Kyra Carr had the opportunity to compete on the Broadway stage with 94 other nominees.

This annual awards event is a coast-tocoast celebration of outstanding student achievement recognizing individual artistry in vocal, dance, and acting performance. Both Langston and Kyra are winners of the 2023 Heller Awards for Young Artists for leading roles in their high school musicals. This was the first year that Heller winners could compete at the national level, thanks to a partnership with Texas Performing Arts, a member of the Broadway League. At the end of an unforgettable evening of show-stopping performances, the top honor of Best Performance by an Actor was awarded to Langston.

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and supporting the next generation of artists is central to TPA's mission and we could not be happier for Langston, Kyra, and all of the nominees. Bravo!

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Austin's Langston Lee & Kyra Carr in NYC

Texas Performing Arts presents

Darden Smith Western Skies

This production of Western Skies is made possible by the University of Texas at Austin Office of the President through the Change Starts Here initiative.

Production Credits:

Directed by Rod Caspers

Dramaturg: Liz Frankel

Musical Arrangements: Michael Ramos

Video and Lighting Design: Matt Smith

Sound Design: Philip Owen

Members of the Band:

Roscoe Beck - Bass

David Jimenez - Guitar and Vocals

Alex Marrero - Percussion and Vocals

Michael Ramos - Keyboard

Audio Engineer - Jeff Byrd

Stage Manager - Jess Borda

Produced by Texas Performing Arts for the UT Songwriter in Residence Program

Bob Bursey - Executive & Artistic Director

Bianca Hooi - Executive & Artistic Project Manager

Jim Larkin - Director of Production

For College of Fine Arts:

Ramón H. Rivera-Servera, Dean

For University Events & Experience:

Andy Langer - Director of the Songwriter In Residence Program

Lee Bash - Executive Director of University Events

Courtney Young - Chief Experience Officer

ABOUT WESTERN SKIES

A performance of songs, stories, and photographs to get lost and find the way home through the landscape and mythologies of Texas and the American West.

Amid a series of solo road trips through West Texas in 2020 and 2021, musician Darden Smith found himself writing songs at the wheel and taking Polaroid pictures of the stark, and beautiful terrain. Inspired by the spirit of the landscape, he scribbled his observations in a notebook and found new life in old lyrics. Between words, music, and images, the western skies came vividly to life.

This new stage production is an immersive journey through a world both real and imagined, a place of mystery and mythology, possibility, and longing. Smith’s stories, songs, and photographs are steeped in isolation, though rarely lonely. They are timeless, yet acutely aware of the hours and minutes whizzing by like mileposts on the highway. More information can be found at dardensmith.com.

ABOUT DARDEN SMITH

Darden Smith is a Texasbased songwriter, musician, artist, author and educator. Smith has released 17 albums over a 35-year career and toured extensively across the US and Europe. Among his other diverse projects Smith has composed a symphony, scored three fulllength dance theater works, produced a documentary for BBC2 Radio and written music for film and TV. His visual art is in both private and corporate collections as well as the Library of Congress.

Smith is the first recipient of the songwriter in residence position at The University of Texas at Austin. The program, housed in the College of Fine Arts, is part of the University’s efforts to expand live music experiences on campus while integrating the UT community into Austin’s vibrant live music scene.

BIOGRAPHIES

Rod Caspers served as the Director of University Events at The University of Texas at Austin and as the Executive Director of Creative Services for The University of Texas System, where he received

five Lone Star Emmy Awards for creating and producing the PBS series, State of Tomorrow. Numerous directing credits include Merrily We Roll Along, The Secret Garden, Honk!, Ah, Wilderness!, The Rivers and Ravines and The Bat (a new opera adaption of Die Fledermaus). Rod conducts directing/curriculum workshops throughout the country and was a guest artist for the Facing History and Ourselves program in Switzerland and the Czech Republic. Stage managing credits include the Radio City Christmas Spectacular and Jim Henson’s Musical World at Carnegie Hall with The New York Pops, The Muppets and the casts of Sesame Street and Avenue Q. Rod staged the original production of Conspirare’s Considering Matthew Shepard and recently codirected the NYC production at Trinity Wall Street.

Elizabeth Frankel joined the Alley Theatre in 2015 and produced its first annual Alley All New Festival in early 2016. Since then, nineteen of the twenty-five plays presented in the festival have gone on to world premiere productions, seven at the Alley and twelve elsewhere. For the past three seasons, Alley has been represented

by at least one Festival play off-Broadway including Rajiv Joseph’s Describe the Night (Obie Award for Best New American Play), Bekah Brunstetter’s The Cake and 72 Miles to Go… by Hilary Bettis. Liz moved to Houston after nine years at New York’s Public Theater. There, she helped to start the Emerging Writers Group and ran the program since its inception in 2008, launching the careers of 53 writers in the process. Before joining The Public, she worked at Waxman Williams Entertainment, Miramax Films and in the literary office of Manhattan Theatre Club. BA: Colby College.

Matthew R. Smith holds an M.F.A. in Design and Technology from The University of Texas at Austin, where he serves as a fulltime lecturer, and a M.A. in Communication from Angelo State. In recent years, he has served as projection designer for a variety of University of Texas at Austin productions and continues to work as a freelance designer throughout Texas in lighting, scenic and production design. He has worked with projection designers Wendall Harrington and Sven Ortel, among others. Prior to moving to Austin, he served as the technical director and

resident designer for Angelo State University. Smith is a member of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT), the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and the National Communication Association.

Phillip Owen has designed sound for the theatre for over two decades and has been an avid guitar player most of his life. He grew up in Central Texas and has lived in multiple places overseas, including Berlin, Dublin and Sligo, Ireland. Prior to coming to The University of Texas at Austin, he served as lecturer in sound design at Texas State University, as well as lead sound engineer at the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas. Owen holds a M.F.A. from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University and an M. Phil. in Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin.

MEMBERS OF THE BAND

Roscoe Beck (Bass Bass player and producer) maintains the pulse, with a mainline to the blues. Roscoe Beck first began to gain attention in the thriving blues and jazz scenes of Austin, Texas in the mid-

1970’s, creating a stir with his band Passenger, and in early collaborations with guitarist Eric Johnson. In 1979, Passenger ventured to Los Angeles at the request of record producer Henry Lewy, and Roscoe soon found himself in a recording studio adding finishing tracks to Leonard Cohen’s Recent Songs album. Tours followed in 1979/1980. Shortly after the Leonard Cohen tours, Passenger disbanded and Roscoe moved to LA, landing the bass chair with the Toshiko Akiyoshi/ Lew Tabackin Big Band and soon after embarking on what would become a decades long association with guitarist Robben Ford. Roscoe’s Austin connection also continued to flourish, resulting in recordings and performances with Joe Ely, Eric Johnson, Omar and the Howlers, Jimmie Vaughan, and many others. In the years since, Roscoe has continued to perform and tour with a wide variety of artists, from long-time collaborators Eric Johnson, Robben Ford, and Leonard Cohen to the Dixie Chicks, singer-songwriter Darden Smith and guitarist Oz Noy.

David Jimenez (Guitar and Vocals), a singer-songwriter from the Rio Grande Valley, has a unique perspective.

Being the youngest on both sides of his giant family (hence The Last Jimenez), he was destined to be a Tejano “living in between worlds” of a border town existence. Much like the bodies of water called “resacas” that inhabit the county where he was born and raised, his music is a specific blend of influences that don’t really exist anywhere else. He’s part troubadour, soul man, guitar slinger, crooner, and the end result is something he calls “Resaca Pop.” “The music just reflects where I’m from and where I’ve been,” says Jimenez. “It’s humid, breezy, sweet, and mysterious.” Now based in Austin, he has quietly made himself a favorite among the deep artists and musicians while still being accessible to listeners that love greasy groove and hooks. “The deeper you go, the more you get, but there’s still plenty on the surface.”

Alex Marrero (Percussion and Vocals) is an Austin, Texas based musician, songwriter, producer, teacher, and bi-lingual voice over talent. Born in Mexico City to Cuban parents, Alex got his professional start playing clubs in Mexico at the age of 15 and has continued his musical evolution since moving to Austin in 1994.

Alex is a respected vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and sought after sideman in various genres. Alex is known for comfortably inhabiting the role of drummer, percussionist, guitar player, background singer, writer or producer. As a lead singer he possesses a unique bravado which has garnered him a reputation as an engaging and charismatic front man. His voice and showmanship present in “Brownout Presents: Brown Sabbath” earned him critical & public acclaim as well as high praise from Ozzy Osbourne himself.

Michael Ramos (Keyboard) is a producer/composer/ musician living in Austin, Texas. He has toured and/

or recorded with the likes of John Mellencamp, Patty Griffin, BoDeans, The Rembrandts, Paul Simon, Kris Kristofferson, and many more. Michael also fronted his own studio project and band, Charanga Cakewalk. His love of Austin, its music scene and musicians, and the people that live here, keep him inspired and busy. Michael received a Latin Grammy in 2016 for his work with Lila Downs on the album, “Ballas y Chocolate”. He is also an A&R person for Lucky Hound Music and is a member of the 484 Artist Management team. He owns his own recording studio, Brown Recluse, where you can find him hard at work most days!

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Over 115 years ago, we opened our doors to help make the lives of hard-working Texans better. We were a family business back then. We remain a family business today with a passion for - and a helping hand in - every community we serve.

From fighting hunger and providing disaster relief to honoring Texas educators and our Nation’s military, we’re firm believers in Texans helping Texans. We do this for one simple reason. We are from here, so we are helping here.

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Supporters like you believe Texas Performing Arts has the power to create joy, transcend differences and change lives. Thank you for helping us become one of the nation’s highest-impact live arts organizations.

Did you know there are money-wise ways to plan for your future and support your passions? By making a gift to Texas Performing Arts through your will, trust or estate plan, you can ensure vibrant performing arts programming continues for generations — all while meeting your financial and family goals.

Call 800-687-4602 or email giftplan@austin.utexas.edu for more information.

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the world’s a stage.”

William Shakespeare We talk about being the best. And about changing the world. It’s not just talk. It’s our legacies.