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Terry Dame's Electric Junkyard Gamelan
Electric Junkyard Gamelan plays original groove driven music on invented instruments. Haunting melodies, funky bass lines and layers of danceable interlocking rhythms ride over brilliant harmonic washes. The brainchild of bandleader and composer Terry Dame, Gamelan's unique sound is influenced by every form of world music it stumbles upon.
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- listen to: Elephant Kick
- listen to: Rocks
SILENT FILM / LIVE MUSIC
The Stuntmen accompany Peter Pan
PERFORMANCES OF PETER PAN ARE FREE TO THE PUBLIC THANKS TO THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF THE EVELYN W. PRESTON MEMORIAL TRUST FUND.
PETER PAN (1924)
One of the gems of the (silent) silver screen, this adapation of J. M. Barrie's classic delights children and adults as much
now as it did in 1924 (see the period New York Times review linked below, for a description of the 1924 audiences!). Directed by Herbert Brenon, this adaptation makes the Darlings and the Lost Boys come alive before your eyes.
We are pleased to be able to offer this classic film in the context it was meant to be seen - with live musical accompaniment.
THE STUNTMEN
Formed in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1992, the Stuntmen create at the forefront of Insurgent Country (sometimes called Alt Country). Drawing on such broad influences as American roots music, country, and indie rock, their music has been described as “a rollicking blast of earthy garage rock … [that fits] nicely alongside such similar exercises in musical cross pollination as Wilco’s A.M.” (by esteemed indie music producer Mike Flood).
In 2002, The Stuntmen began working collaboratively with the Young at Heart Chorus, a group of seniors who perform everything from Frank Sinatra to Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin to Outkast. The performances with the Young at Heart Chorus were so successful that they gave rise to a DVD live concert release and a European tour.
The Stuntmen offer energized, honest Americana at its very best. The group has released three full-length albums and has earned critical acclaim from such sources as Time and No Depression.
Dhafer Youssef
Tunisian-born singer and oud (Arabic lute) virtuoso Dhafer Youssef’s hypnotic, Sufi-inspired music connects the ancient with the modern, the East with the West in an enticing coalescence of culture. Youssef draws on the evocative sound of his Islamic heritage, combining it with new directions in European jazz and “a voice that could stop wars” (Songlines) to create timeless atmospheres of sound. In his Real Art Ways debut, he is joined by compelling Vietnamese guitarist – Nguyen Lê and omnidexterous percussionist Satoshi Takeishi.
Konk Pack
Tim Hodgkinson: lap steel guitar, electronics, clarinets
Thomas Lehn: analogue synthesizer
Roger Turner: drumsets and percussion
"I can't think of an improvising group more explosive thn this European trio - percussionist Roger Turner, guitarist Tim Hodgkinson, and synth maestro Thomas Lehn bite down hard on whatever they play, confronting even delicate passages with taut intensity. [...] I've seen so much free improv that some of it feels as predictable as 'Chopsticks', but these guys keep me pinned to the wall, happily anticipating the next shock." - Peter Margasak, CHICAGO READER
Sweeter than the Day
Wayne Horvitz - Piano and
Keyboards
Timothy Young - Guitars
Keith Lowe - Acoustic Bass
Eric Eagle - Drums
Formed in 1999, Sweeter Than the Day began simply as the acoustic incarnation of Zony Mash. The band played a series of weekly shows at Seattle's Baltic Room, and quickly became Wayne Horvitz’s first piano-based ensemble in over 10 years, and one of Wayne's longest-running groups, as well as one of his favorites. Despite the shared personnel, the ensemble is quite distinct from the electric Zony Mash and the repertoire is almost entirely different. The band has toured throughout the US, Canada and Europe. Sweeter Than the Day also presents double bills with Robin Holcomb, where it serves as Robin's backup band.
Wayne Horvitz is a composer, pianist, and electronic musician who has performed extensively throughout Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America. He is the leader of Sweeter Than the Day, Zony Mash, Pigpen, The Four plus One Ensemble and co-founder of the NY Composers Orchestra. He has performed and collaborated with Bill Frisell, Butch Morris, John Zorn (Naked City, etc.), Robin Holcomb, Fred Frith, Julian Priester, Philip Wilson, Michael Shrieve, and Carla Bley among others. He has been commissioned by the NEA, Meet The Composer, Kronos String Quartet, Seattle Chamber Players, Mary Flagler, BAM and others. Collaborations with choreographers include work with Paul Taylor with the White Oak Dance Project, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, and Crispin Spaeth. Film work includes music and sound design for three PBS specials and Gus Van Sandts' "Psycho." He is the 2002 recipient of the Rockefeller Map Grant.
- official website
- Listen to: a moment for Andrew
- Listen to: a walk in the rain
Sarah Manguso
Jenny Blair
Writers & Readers
FEVER : Sarah Manguso & Jenny Blair
7PM Reception; 7:30PM Readings; Discussion to follow
FEVER features two writers who approach the very human side of illness and medicine.
Sarah Manguso (whose memoir The Two Kinds of Decay was just published by Farrar, Strauss & Giroux) was faced at twenty-one with a disease that appeared suddenly and tore through her twenties, paralyzing her for weeks at a time, programming her first to expect nothing from life and then, furiously, to expect everything. She recounts her nine-year struggle with collapsed veins, addiction and depression, and perhaps the unkindest cut of all for a writer—the trite metaphors that accompany prolonged illness. Ultimately, though, hers is not so much a chronicle of triumph or tragedy as it is simply a story about learning to pay attention. And in so doing, she manages with tremendous grace and self-awareness to train our eyes anew on the very notion of illness and survival. You can read excerpts of her work by clicking here.
Jenny Blair is a writer and physician in Chicago, Illinois. She earned her B.S. in geology at Yale University and her M.D. at the Yale School of Medicine, and completed her residency in emergency medicine at the University of Chicago in 2007. From 2002–2007 she wrote “First Opinion,” a column in the Hartford Courant describing her experiences in medicine. It twice won National Headliner Awards for Special Column on One Subject; other winners included Fareed Zakaria (2003) and Anna Quindlen (2006). In addition, she contributed essays and illustrated features to Yale Medicine Magazine, and published book reviews and research papers in the medical literature, while in medical training. She has been recognized as an outstanding teacher by her medical students and honored for her humanism as a physician by her colleagues. You can read from a selection of her essays, here.
