An innovative series at Harlem's venerable Apollo Theatre. Here's a look at what's coming up in October - from various sources:
Apollo Salon Series
Since 2006, the Apollo Salon Series has an incubation and performance program for mid-career artists working in diverse genres of the performing arts, including music, theater, spoken word, multimedia, and movement. Artists receive one week of time on the Soundstage and access to Apollo resources to develop new works. Projects culminate in two performances with audience discussion after each presentation. The Series involves up to 10 projects per year. The Salon Series allows the Apollo to nurture works of high artistic value. This is part of a comprehensive programmatic shift to integrate artistic performance as part of the Apollo's core offerings.
SALON SERIES
APOLLO THEATER SALON SERIES
KICK-OFF EVENT: The Artists and Their Work
Apollo Soundstage
Friday, October 1, 2010 at 8:00PM
Please join Apollo artists and friends for the 2010 Salon Series opening event featuring a lively discussion hosted by WQXR’s Terrance McKnight. Salon Series artists will be in attendance to speak about their work and present excerpts. The evening will also feature turntable master, DJ Rupture.
Free of charge. Limited Capacity.
BURNT SUGAR THE ARKESTRA CHAMBER:
“Burnt Sugar Freaks the James Brown Songbook (An Opera In Progress)”
Apollo Theater Soundstage
Friday, October 8 at 7:30PM
Saturday, October 9 at 7:30PM
Founded in 1999 by guitarist and noted writer Greg Tate, Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber was created as a forum for New York area improvisational musicians to explore the totality of black American music and its offshoots in the 21st century. The collective combines their many influences into exciting and innovative
hybrids. The results are based on a solid foundation of superb old school musicianship and cutting-edge music technology.
For the Salon Series, the 21-member Arkestra’s array of guitars, strings, horns, keyboards, percussion, and voices will re-orchestrate several medleys taken from James Brown’s three Live At The Apollo albums, and re-imagine them in the styles of Brown contemporaries such as Miles Davis, Sun Ra, John Coltrane, Nina Simone, Jimi Hendrix and Chaka Khan. This unique program has been subtitled “J.B.’s Funky Divas vs. the Revolution of the Mind” as it will not only feature music made famous by Mr. Brown himself but the productions and compositions he developed for his premiere female vocalists as well--notably Vicki Anderson, Lyn Collins and Marva Whitney.
GORDON VOIDWELL:
“Who Killed Andy Warhol? / Who Shot Biggie Smalls”
Apollo Theater Soundstage
Friday, October 15 at 7:30PM
Saturday, October 16 at 7:30PM
Gordon Voidwell, the alter ego of Bronx-born ex-chorister turned pop culture enthusiast Will Johnson, is fast becoming known for creating a sonic fusion mixing his unique pop & funk sound reminiscent of Prince, David Bowie, Cameo and George Clinton with a new, futuristic vibe.
Voidwell's latest work, “Who K
illed Andy Warhol?/Who Shot Biggie Smalls?”, a musical performance by Voidwell and his electro-acoustic backing band, combines video, sound, costume and choreography to trace the arc of pop culture from 1960s visual artist Andy Warhol to 1990s rap legend Biggie Smalls. The performance will prompt audience members to create their own understanding of "pop" and the distinction between pop culture and high culture.
HELGA DAVIS:
“Mephisto’s Song”
Apollo Theater Soundstage
Friday, October 22 at 7:30PM
Saturday, October 23 at 7:30PM
Celebrated New York-based vocalist Helga Davis, whose inter-disciplinary practice includes work with composers and choreographers alike, constantly uses her powerhouse vocals and penchant to cross freely and seamlessly between genres to push the envelope and explore music’s unchartered terrains. With her piece
“Mephisto’s Song”, Davis will present a stirring work-in-progress collaboration with composer Andrea Liberovici.
The performance, a multi-media songbook adapted from Goethe’s Faust, features Davis in a sonic/visual world created by Liberovici. The piece includes a recorded narration by Robert Wilson and a recorded cello improvisation by renowned cellist Jeffrey Zeigler (of Kronos Quartet).
WILLIAM CABALLERO:
“Speak! So the World Will Listen”
Apollo Theater Soundstage
Friday, October 29 at 7:30PM
Saturday, October 30 at 7:30PM
Check out a video clip here
MTV Movie Award nominated documentary filmmaker, music video director, and composer William D. Caballero’s current project, “Speak! So the World Will Listen: Uganda”, is a multimedia experience that blends projected visuals and live music with audio testimony focusing on the culture, traditions, and strife facing Uganda today.
Pulling from a wide library of personally recorded interviews and footage, these stories are weaved in a culturally sensitive artistic medium, and are combined with a unique symphonic score performed by a string and woodwind ensemble that blends Ugandan rhythms with western classical music. Visuals and music composed by William D. Caballero.
Apollo Salon Series
Since 2006, the Apollo Salon Series has an incubation and performance program for mid-career artists working in diverse genres of the performing arts, including music, theater, spoken word, multimedia, and movement. Artists receive one week of time on the Soundstage and access to Apollo resources to develop new works. Projects culminate in two performances with audience discussion after each presentation. The Series involves up to 10 projects per year. The Salon Series allows the Apollo to nurture works of high artistic value. This is part of a comprehensive programmatic shift to integrate artistic performance as part of the Apollo's core offerings.SALON SERIES
APOLLO THEATER SALON SERIES
KICK-OFF EVENT: The Artists and Their Work
Apollo Soundstage
Friday, October 1, 2010 at 8:00PM
Please join Apollo artists and friends for the 2010 Salon Series opening event featuring a lively discussion hosted by WQXR’s Terrance McKnight. Salon Series artists will be in attendance to speak about their work and present excerpts. The evening will also feature turntable master, DJ Rupture.
Free of charge. Limited Capacity.
BURNT SUGAR THE ARKESTRA CHAMBER:
“Burnt Sugar Freaks the James Brown Songbook (An Opera In Progress)”
Apollo Theater Soundstage
Friday, October 8 at 7:30PM
Saturday, October 9 at 7:30PM
Founded in 1999 by guitarist and noted writer Greg Tate, Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber was created as a forum for New York area improvisational musicians to explore the totality of black American music and its offshoots in the 21st century. The collective combines their many influences into exciting and innovative
hybrids. The results are based on a solid foundation of superb old school musicianship and cutting-edge music technology.For the Salon Series, the 21-member Arkestra’s array of guitars, strings, horns, keyboards, percussion, and voices will re-orchestrate several medleys taken from James Brown’s three Live At The Apollo albums, and re-imagine them in the styles of Brown contemporaries such as Miles Davis, Sun Ra, John Coltrane, Nina Simone, Jimi Hendrix and Chaka Khan. This unique program has been subtitled “J.B.’s Funky Divas vs. the Revolution of the Mind” as it will not only feature music made famous by Mr. Brown himself but the productions and compositions he developed for his premiere female vocalists as well--notably Vicki Anderson, Lyn Collins and Marva Whitney.
GORDON VOIDWELL:
“Who Killed Andy Warhol? / Who Shot Biggie Smalls”
Apollo Theater Soundstage
Friday, October 15 at 7:30PM
Saturday, October 16 at 7:30PM
Gordon Voidwell, the alter ego of Bronx-born ex-chorister turned pop culture enthusiast Will Johnson, is fast becoming known for creating a sonic fusion mixing his unique pop & funk sound reminiscent of Prince, David Bowie, Cameo and George Clinton with a new, futuristic vibe.
Voidwell's latest work, “Who K
illed Andy Warhol?/Who Shot Biggie Smalls?”, a musical performance by Voidwell and his electro-acoustic backing band, combines video, sound, costume and choreography to trace the arc of pop culture from 1960s visual artist Andy Warhol to 1990s rap legend Biggie Smalls. The performance will prompt audience members to create their own understanding of "pop" and the distinction between pop culture and high culture.HELGA DAVIS:
“Mephisto’s Song”
Apollo Theater Soundstage
Friday, October 22 at 7:30PM
Saturday, October 23 at 7:30PM
Celebrated New York-based vocalist Helga Davis, whose inter-disciplinary practice includes work with composers and choreographers alike, constantly uses her powerhouse vocals and penchant to cross freely and seamlessly between genres to push the envelope and explore music’s unchartered terrains. With her piece
“Mephisto’s Song”, Davis will present a stirring work-in-progress collaboration with composer Andrea Liberovici.The performance, a multi-media songbook adapted from Goethe’s Faust, features Davis in a sonic/visual world created by Liberovici. The piece includes a recorded narration by Robert Wilson and a recorded cello improvisation by renowned cellist Jeffrey Zeigler (of Kronos Quartet).
WILLIAM CABALLERO:
“Speak! So the World Will Listen”
Apollo Theater Soundstage
Friday, October 29 at 7:30PM
Saturday, October 30 at 7:30PM
Check out a video clip here
MTV Movie Award nominated documentary filmmaker, music video director, and composer William D. Caballero’s current project, “Speak! So the World Will Listen: Uganda”, is a multimedia experience that blends projected visuals and live music with audio testimony focusing on the culture, traditions, and strife facing Uganda today.
Pulling from a wide library of personally recorded interviews and footage, these stories are weaved in a culturally sensitive artistic medium, and are combined with a unique symphonic score performed by a string and woodwind ensemble that blends Ugandan rhythms with western classical music. Visuals and music composed by William D. Caballero.
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