Major Seattle show!
The Degenerate Art Ensemble plays their biggest
show ever on March 19th in Seattle
DEGENERATE ART ORCHESTRA - a special 45 piece
orchestral event!!!!!!
Saturday March 19,
2005 8pm ONE NIGHT ONLY!!!!!
THE MOORE
THEATER
Tix:
$10-$15
ONLINE:
www.degenerateartensemble.com
BY PHONE:
(206)292-2787
In the first concert of
its kind, Degenerate Art Ensemble has assembled
a
powerful roster of some of Seattle's most
creative and innovative musical
minds to
create new works for a 45 piece orchestra made up of
Seattle's
finest adventurous classical and
improvising musicians. The concert
will
feature 10 new orchestral works
including four multi-media works;
Eyvind
Kang's new work for solo vocalist and
orchestra (Jessika Kenney - trained in
the
musics of Indonesia and India), Ben McAllister's suite for orchestra
and
new silent film by William Weiss, Joshua
Kohl's score to accompany a solo
dance by
DAE's own butoh visionary Haruko Nishimura ("a master"
-San
Francisco Weekly) and a new interactive
work that breaks down the walls
between
audience, composer and orchestra by Seattle School (the makers
of
Iron
Composer).
One night of innovation for
full orchestra by 10 of Seattle's
hottest
musical minds- 40 piece orchestra, 11
Seattle Composers, 1 Dancer, 1 silent
film, 3
guest vocalists, 1 trumpet soloist, 1 theatrical work for
orchestra
FEATURING NEW ORCHESTRAL AND
MULTI MEDIA WORKS BY:
Eyvind Kang (Tzadik
Records) - with guest vocalist Jessika Kenny
Lori
Goldston (Black Cat Orchestra, David
Byrne,
Nirvana)
Seattle
School (the makers of Iron Composer) Timothy Young and Paul
Moore
(Psychodelic Rock Orchestra, Very
Special Forces) Joshua Kohl (Degenerate
Art
Ensemble) - featuring a solo dance by Haruko Nishimura Jherek
Bischoff
(Degenerate Art Ensemble/Dead
Science)
- w/ guest vocalist Dawn
McCarthy
Sam Mickens (Degenerate Art
Ensemble/Dead Science) Ben
McAllister
(Degenerate Art Ensemble/Baby) -
featuring a new silent film Ian
Rashkin
(Degenerate Art Ensemble/Baby) Tom
Swafford (Meisce, Sound of
the
Underbrush)
'They
entranced the audience... the secret of their show is perfect
drama,
gradation and splendid visuals, and a
punk-symphonic-garage-big-band style.
Dynamic
upheavals were turning into relaxing passages and everything
was
falling into place like wheels in a
postmodernist clock machine."
-Svet Jine Huby
Magazine (Prague, Czech Republic)
new
works for 45 piece orchestra by:
Jherek
Bischoff
Lori
Goldston
Eyvind
Kang
Joshua
Kohl
Ben
McAllister
Sam
Mickens
Ian
Rashkin
Seattle
School
Tom
Swafford
Timothy Young & Paul
Moore
Saturday March 19th, 2005
8pm
Tickets
$10-$15
This exciting project is being
presented by Seattle Theater Group and
funded
in part by the Aaron Copland Fund,
4Culture and the Seattle Office of Arts
and
Cultural Affairs.
A FEW NOTES ON
DEGENERATE ART ENSEMBLE:
"…their
art is a violently beautiful, passionate world where
things
don't have a 'nice day', but are
either dying or coming to life, screaming
or
absolutely silent."
-The Stranger
(Seattle)
“"This music &
movement ensemble create work outside of all music
and
dance conventions...telling a surreal
story filled with sweetness, power
and
humor.
The
unexpected is accomplished and a mysterious mythology
emerges."
-- Berliner Morgenpost, (Berlin,
Germany)
"(DAE choreographer Haruko
Nishimura) is able to create
breathtakingly
powerful images using the
sparest movement style."
-Seattle Post
Intelligencer
"(DAE) works to create
and perform a living form of music… one
derived
from jazz, punk, blues, post modern
influences… (to) reflect what
music is
in today's society - a new, and developing
thing."
-Swing Magazine (New
York)
"Lines between classical, jazz,
world music, and hard rock aesthetics
are
obliterated in (DAE's) eloquently
executed, high energy repertoire."
-SF Weekly
(San
Francisco)
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to www.degenerateartensemble.com /music, photos, more!
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