September 29, 2005
To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected]
Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia Street Greenwich Village, NY 10014
Tel: 212-989-9319 Fax: 212-243-4207 Web: corneliastreetcafe.com
between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village 1,9 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, F to West 4th St.
“a culinary as well as a cultural landmark" Mayoral Proclamation, City of New York 1987
Serial Underground brought to you by ComposersCollaborative inc. on the 2nd Monday of the month at Cornelia Street Café
10 october 2005 at 8:30 pm
Where: Cornelia Street Cafe (29 Cornelia Street, NYC) When: the second Monday of every month at 8:30 pm How: By subway – 1, 9 train to Sheridan Square or A, C, E, F, V train to West 4th Street
Box office: 212.663.1967 (advance purchase discount available) Admission at the door: $15 cover + $5 food/drink minimum Online tickets at http://www.TicketWeb.com
ComposersCollaborative inc's (CCi) Serial Underground introduces new multidisciplinary concert theater collaborations – the second Monday of the month at the legendary Cornelia Street Cafe, NYC. Doors open at 8:30 pm.
THE GOLD STANDARD by composer/pianist Jed Distler (CCi artistic director) and playwright Ed Schmidt (The Last Supper) – new excerpt from an evening-length piano theater work performed by Jed Distler. THE SHUFFLE OF THINGS by Ed Schmidt – excerpt of Ed's next work for the stage performed by the playwright. VICTROLOPHONE is violist/vocalist Glenda Goodman and trumpet player Peter Evans, performing reconstituted versions of songs they've learned from Hoagy Carmichael and Johnny Cash records, mix-tapes and cloudy memories.
SERIAL UNDERGROUND evenings and THE GOLD STANDARD are directed by Arnold Barkus, while David Lovett's lighting design adds glitz to the underground experience.
As of 1998 “the ever imaginative COMPOSERSCOLLABORATIVE"(Time Out) has presented such new music fare as the SOLO FLIGHTS and NON SEQUITUR festivals. Launched in the fall of 2004, SERIAL UNDERGROUND presents multidisciplinary collaborations between composers, playwrights, directors, spoken word artists. Allan Kozinn (New York Times) contextualizes SERIAL UNDERGROUND, CCi's monthly performances in the basement of the Cornelia Street Cafe – “Informal performances of concert works were part of the musical ecology, and to some extent part of the ecology of urban night life as well. That tradition lasted into the 20th century, when ... “serious music" reserved the concert hall as its home, and jazz (and later other popular forms) took its place at street level. ... Composers Collaborative and its inventive artistic director, the composer and pianist Jed Distler, have decided that this [lost] intimacy [between listeners and performers] is worth recapturing."
THE CORNELIA STREET CAFE has presented an enormous variety of artists, from singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega to poet-senator Eugene McCarthy, from members of Monty Python to members of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Upstairs there is a beautiful oak bar, and 3 dining rooms. And there is a real kitchen, which garners much acclaim such as the 1998 Village Arts Award for “inspired cuisine."
http://www.composerscollab.org about the Serial Underground artists on October 10, 2005 program: Filmmaker and theater director Arnold Barkus has directed two feature films and numerous theater pieces. His most recent feature, funded by Canal Plus, Tempete Dans Un Verre d'Eau was theatrically released in France, and in festivals worldwide. The DeMarco Foundation opened the door for his first theater work, for which, he directed an original piece at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He has been based in New York for the past 3 years, where he has directed two Theater Ten Thousand productions: The Gnadiges Fräulein by Tennessee Williams at the Ohio Theater -- In Theater Magazine “pick of the week" – and Honey and Boyd, at Present Company Theatorium.
Artistic Director of ComposersCollaborative, composer/pianist Jed Distler is developing a concert theater work, Everbest, Virgil, with director Arnold Barkus for premiere at the Krannert Center of the University of Illinois. Jed is also collaborating with playwright Ed Schmidt (The Last Supper) on The Gold Standard, a piano theater work about a slightly disgruntled pianist. Highlights of the past season include solo performances in NYC at Joe's Pub and with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company at BAM, and a commission from Symphony Space for their Wall-to-Wall Sondheim. For the full scope of Jed’s musical life, visit www.composerscollab.org.
A veteran of the European touring scene, lighting designer David Lovett worked for the Almeida Theatre in London; designed pieces for Scottish Opera, Attic Theatre, Newcastle Playhouse, The Matrix Ensemble; realized John Cage's installation piece Essay in Barcelona and a tour of Cage's Europeras 3 & 4. For the Aldeburgh Festival, he lit the world premiere of John Tavener's Mary of Egypt, and re-lit Robert Wilson's Hamletmachine on the European tour. David has been on board with CCi since 2002.
Ed Schmidt wrote and performed THE LAST SUPPER, which played to sold-out houses in his New York kitchen and dining room for two years. He subsequently performed the show at the Bonn (Germany) Biennale and the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival. His other plays have been optioned for Broadway twice and have been produced by the Old Globe, Pasadena Playhouse, George Street Playhouse, L.A. Theater Works, Sacramento Theater Company, Chicago Theater Company, West Bank Cafe, Ironbound Theater, and the Belmont Italian-American Playhouse. He has written several screenplays, including Cost of Living, which starred Edie Falco.
Contact Celia Cooke (212-663-1967) for program updates and press information. http://www.composerscollab.org
To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected]
Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia Street Greenwich Village, NY 10014
Tel: 212-989-9319 Fax: 212-243-4207 Web: corneliastreetcafe.com
between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village 1,9 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, F to West 4th St.
“a culinary as well as a cultural landmark" Mayoral Proclamation, City of New York 1987
Serial Underground brought to you by ComposersCollaborative inc. on the 2nd Monday of the month at Cornelia Street Café
10 october 2005 at 8:30 pm
Where: Cornelia Street Cafe (29 Cornelia Street, NYC) When: the second Monday of every month at 8:30 pm How: By subway – 1, 9 train to Sheridan Square or A, C, E, F, V train to West 4th Street
Box office: 212.663.1967 (advance purchase discount available) Admission at the door: $15 cover + $5 food/drink minimum Online tickets at http://www.TicketWeb.com
ComposersCollaborative inc's (CCi) Serial Underground introduces new multidisciplinary concert theater collaborations – the second Monday of the month at the legendary Cornelia Street Cafe, NYC. Doors open at 8:30 pm.
THE GOLD STANDARD by composer/pianist Jed Distler (CCi artistic director) and playwright Ed Schmidt (The Last Supper) – new excerpt from an evening-length piano theater work performed by Jed Distler. THE SHUFFLE OF THINGS by Ed Schmidt – excerpt of Ed's next work for the stage performed by the playwright. VICTROLOPHONE is violist/vocalist Glenda Goodman and trumpet player Peter Evans, performing reconstituted versions of songs they've learned from Hoagy Carmichael and Johnny Cash records, mix-tapes and cloudy memories.
SERIAL UNDERGROUND evenings and THE GOLD STANDARD are directed by Arnold Barkus, while David Lovett's lighting design adds glitz to the underground experience.
As of 1998 “the ever imaginative COMPOSERSCOLLABORATIVE"(Time Out) has presented such new music fare as the SOLO FLIGHTS and NON SEQUITUR festivals. Launched in the fall of 2004, SERIAL UNDERGROUND presents multidisciplinary collaborations between composers, playwrights, directors, spoken word artists. Allan Kozinn (New York Times) contextualizes SERIAL UNDERGROUND, CCi's monthly performances in the basement of the Cornelia Street Cafe – “Informal performances of concert works were part of the musical ecology, and to some extent part of the ecology of urban night life as well. That tradition lasted into the 20th century, when ... “serious music" reserved the concert hall as its home, and jazz (and later other popular forms) took its place at street level. ... Composers Collaborative and its inventive artistic director, the composer and pianist Jed Distler, have decided that this [lost] intimacy [between listeners and performers] is worth recapturing."
THE CORNELIA STREET CAFE has presented an enormous variety of artists, from singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega to poet-senator Eugene McCarthy, from members of Monty Python to members of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Upstairs there is a beautiful oak bar, and 3 dining rooms. And there is a real kitchen, which garners much acclaim such as the 1998 Village Arts Award for “inspired cuisine."
http://www.composerscollab.org about the Serial Underground artists on October 10, 2005 program: Filmmaker and theater director Arnold Barkus has directed two feature films and numerous theater pieces. His most recent feature, funded by Canal Plus, Tempete Dans Un Verre d'Eau was theatrically released in France, and in festivals worldwide. The DeMarco Foundation opened the door for his first theater work, for which, he directed an original piece at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He has been based in New York for the past 3 years, where he has directed two Theater Ten Thousand productions: The Gnadiges Fräulein by Tennessee Williams at the Ohio Theater -- In Theater Magazine “pick of the week" – and Honey and Boyd, at Present Company Theatorium.
Artistic Director of ComposersCollaborative, composer/pianist Jed Distler is developing a concert theater work, Everbest, Virgil, with director Arnold Barkus for premiere at the Krannert Center of the University of Illinois. Jed is also collaborating with playwright Ed Schmidt (The Last Supper) on The Gold Standard, a piano theater work about a slightly disgruntled pianist. Highlights of the past season include solo performances in NYC at Joe's Pub and with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company at BAM, and a commission from Symphony Space for their Wall-to-Wall Sondheim. For the full scope of Jed’s musical life, visit www.composerscollab.org.
A veteran of the European touring scene, lighting designer David Lovett worked for the Almeida Theatre in London; designed pieces for Scottish Opera, Attic Theatre, Newcastle Playhouse, The Matrix Ensemble; realized John Cage's installation piece Essay in Barcelona and a tour of Cage's Europeras 3 & 4. For the Aldeburgh Festival, he lit the world premiere of John Tavener's Mary of Egypt, and re-lit Robert Wilson's Hamletmachine on the European tour. David has been on board with CCi since 2002.
Ed Schmidt wrote and performed THE LAST SUPPER, which played to sold-out houses in his New York kitchen and dining room for two years. He subsequently performed the show at the Bonn (Germany) Biennale and the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival. His other plays have been optioned for Broadway twice and have been produced by the Old Globe, Pasadena Playhouse, George Street Playhouse, L.A. Theater Works, Sacramento Theater Company, Chicago Theater Company, West Bank Cafe, Ironbound Theater, and the Belmont Italian-American Playhouse. He has written several screenplays, including Cost of Living, which starred Edie Falco.
Contact Celia Cooke (212-663-1967) for program updates and press information. http://www.composerscollab.org
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