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CAMH George E. Lewis Lecture Pr FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACT ALWAYS FRESH Connie McAllister Communications and Marketing Manager ALWAYS FREE Tel 713 284 8255 [email protected] The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is pleased to present internationally recognized composer, trombonist, and scholar in the fields of jazz and experimental music, George E. Lewis. Artists/Scholars Talk: George E. Lewis Saturday, January 22, 2011 Photo courtesy George E. Lewis 2PM, free admission Excellence in Recorded Sound Research from the Houston, TX (January 5, 2011)—The Contemporary Association for Recorded Sound Collections (2009), and Arts Museum Houston is pleased to present a lecture an award from the Jazz Journalists Association for the by George E. Lewis, an internationally recognized Best Book on Jazz (2009). Lewis’ discography shows his composer, trombonist, and scholar in the fields of jazz amazing range as an artist. His recordings include and experimental music. Lewis will present In Search collaborations with such jazz notables as Lester Bowie, of Benjamin Patterson: An Improvised Journey in Anthony Braxton, Craig Harris, Gil Evans, Roscoe conjunction with the CAMH exhibition Benjamin Mitchell, as well as experimental musicians like Laurie Patterson: Born in the State of FLUX/us. Anderson, Douglas Ewart, and John Zorn. Lewis has also collaborated with a number of visual artists including the George E. Lewis serves as the Edwin H. Case experimental Canadian filmmaker Stan Douglas and Professor of American Music at Columbia University. documentary filmmaker Aryan Kaganof. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship in 2002, an Alpert Award in the Arts in 1999, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Lewis studied ABOUT BENJAMIN PATTERSON: BORN IN THE composition with Muhal Richard Abrams at the AACM STATE OF FLUX/US School of Music, and trombone with Dean Hey. A Benjamin Patterson: Born in the State of FLUX/us is a member of the Association for the Advancement of retrospective of the artist’s career, which now spans Creative Musicians (AACM) since 1971, Lewis' work as nearly fifty years. The exhibition includes both early and composer, improvisor, performer, and interpreter recent work by the artist that range from annotated explores electronic and computer music, computer- scores and books to painting and sculpture. Video based multimedia installations, text-sound works, and documentation from performances and audio files of notated and improvisational forms, and is documented Patterson’s music are also featured. As a founding on more than 130 recordings. His oral history is member of Fluxus, a loose and international collective of archived in Yale University’s collection of “Major artists who infused avant-garde practices of the day with Figures in American Music,” and his published articles humor and anarchic energy, Patterson helped on music, experimental video, visual art, and cultural revolutionize the artistic landscape at the advent of the studies have appeared in numerous scholarly journals 1960s and usher in an era of new and experimental and edited volumes. His widely acclaimed book, A music. Now in his seventies, Patterson is being Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American discovered by a new generation of artists. Benjamin Experimental Music (University of Chicago Press, Patterson: Born in the State of FLUX/us marks the 2008) is a recipient of the American Book Award artist’s first major exhibition, bringing together a (2009), the American Musicological Society’s Music in multitude of works never before seen in the United American Culture Award (2009), an Award for States. The exhibition is curated by CAMH Senior Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Tel 713 284 8250 5216 Montrose Boulevard Fax 713 284 8275 CAMH Houston, Texas 77006-6547 www.camh.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Curator Valerie Cassel Oliver and is on view through January 23, 2011. Teen Council is supported by Mrs. Louisa Stude Sarofim and Baker Hughes Foundation. EXHIBITION SUPPORT Benjamin Patterson: Born in the State of FLUX/us is GENERAL SUPPORT supported by generous grants from The Andy Warhol The Museum’s operations and programs are made Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National possible through the generosity of the Museum’s Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is trustees, patrons, members and donors. The provided by the Houston Museum of African American Contemporary Arts Museum Houston receives partial Culture. operating support from the Houston Endowment, Inc., the City of Houston through the Houston Museum Support for shipping was generously provided by District Association, National Endowment for the Arts, Christo/CVJ Corporation, Jean Dupuy, Letty Lou the Texas Commission on the Arts, and The Wortham Eisenhauer, Henry Flynt, Geoffrey Hendricks, Jon Foundation, Inc. Hendricks, Yoko Ono Lennon, Phoebe Neville and Philip Corner, The Oldenburg van Bruggen Continental Airlines is the official airline of the Foundation, Jeffery Perkins, Lila and Gilbert Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Silverman, Miyuki Sugaya and Toshiyuki Nemoto, Jean Toche and Yoshimasa Wada. CAMH MISSION The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is an idea and The exhibitions in the Brown Foundation Gallery have a place shaped by the present moment. The Museum been made possible by the patrons, benefactors and exemplifies the dynamic relationship between donors to the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston's contemporary art and contemporary society through its Major Exhibition Fund: Major Patron—Chinhui Juhn exhibitions, public and educational programs, and and Eddie Allen, Fayez Sarofim, Michael Zilkha; publications. The CAMH provides the physical and Patrons—Louise D. Jamail, Mr. and Mrs. I. H. intellectual framework essential to the presentation, Kempner III, Ms. Louisa Stude Sarofim, Leigh and interpretation, and advancement of contemporary art; it Reggie Smith; Benefactors—City Kitchen Catering, is a vibrant forum for artists and all audiences, and for George and Mary Josephine Hamman Foundation, critical, scholarly, and public discourse. Jackson Hicks / Jackson and Company, Marley Lott, Poppi Massey, Beverly and Howard Robinson, Andrew ALWAYS FRESH, ALWAYS FREE Schirrmeister, Susan Vaughan Foundation, Inc., Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Wilson; Donors—A Fare GENERAL INFORMATION Extraordinaire, Anonymous, Baker Botts, L.L.P, The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is located at Bergner and Johnson Design, The Brown Foundation, 5216 Montrose Boulevard, at the corner of Montrose Inc., Jereann Chaney, Susie and Sanford Criner, and Bissonnet, in the heart of Houston’s Museum Elizabeth Howard Crowell, Ruth Dreessen and District. Hours are Wednesday 11AM-7PM, Thursday Thomas Van Laan, Marita and J.B. Fairbanks, Jo and 11AM-9PM, Friday 11AM-7PM, Saturday and Sunday Jim Furr, Barbara and Michael Gamson, Mr. and Mrs. 11AM-6PM. Admission is always free. For more William Goldberg / Bernstein Global Wealth information, visit www.camh.org or call 713 284 8250. Management, King & Spalding L.L.P., KPMG, LLP, Judy and Scott Nyquist, David I. Saperstein, Scurlock Foundation, Karen and Harry Susman, and Martha Claire Tompkins. EDUCATION SUPPORT The Museum receives support for its education programs from: Anonymous, Baker Botts L.L.P., Baker Hughes Foundation, Ruth Dreessen and Thomas Van Laan, Louise D. Jamail, John P. McGovern Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. I.H. Kempner III, Kinder Morgan Foundation, Andrew R. McFarland, M.D. Anderson Foundation, Marian and Speros Martel Foundation Endowment, Mrs. Louisa Stude Sarofim, and 20K Group, LLC. CAMH 02 1/5/2011 .
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