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Encorethe Performing Arts Magazine Altria 25Th Next Wave Festival November 2007 25th Next Wave Festival Mikhail Baryshnikov, VOOM Portrait by Robert Wilson, 2004 BAM 25th Next Wave Festival is sponsored by: ENCOREThe Performing Arts Magazine Altria 25th Next Wave Festival Brooklyn Academy of Music Alan H. Fishman William I. Campbell Chairman of the Board Vice Chairman of the Board Karen Brooks Hopkins Joseph V. Melillo President Executive Producer presents The BQE Approximate BAM Howard Gilman Opera House running time: Nov 1-3, 2007 at 8pm one hour and 50 minutes, By Sufjan Stevens including one intermission Part I THE BQE World premiere -intermission- Part II SUFJAN PLAYS THE HITS The BQE commissioned by BAM BAM 25th Next Wave Festival is sponsored by Altria Group, Inc. Music Programming at BAM is made possible by a generous grant from The New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. Additional support is provided by the Cowles Foundation. Endowment funding for The BQE has been provided by The Andrew W Mellon Foundation Fund for Opera and Music-Theater. The BQE Music and film by Sufjan Stevens Cinematography Reuben Kleiner and Sufjan Stevens Editors Malcolm Hearn , Reuben Kleiner, and Sufjan Stevens Conductor Michael Atkinson Audio engineer Christopher Colbert Projectionist and video artist Deborah Johnson Costume design Caroline McAlister Lighting design and engineer Alban Sardzinski Production manager Lisa Moran Production stage manager Mary Susan Gregson BAND Casey Foubert electric guitar, bass, vocals Yuuki Matthews electric bass, vocals James McAlister drums and percussion Sufjan Stevens piano, guitar, banjo, celesta Shara Worden vocals, celesta, guitar CHAMB ER ORC HESTRA Beth Meyers viola Corrina Albright viola Matt Moran percussion Tim Albright trombone Jane O'Hara cello Pico Alt violin Suzy Perelman violin Hideaki Aomori clarinet Damian Primis bassoon Michael Atkinson horn Theodore Primis horn Kiku Enomoto violin Jody Redhage cello Mat Fields bass Kyle Resnick trumpet Josh Frank trumpet Hiroko Taguchi violin Alan Hampton bass Arthur Sato oboe Marla Hansen vio la Miranda Sielaff vio la Jay Hassler clarinet Alex Sopp flute Maria Jeffers cello Leigh Stuart cello Benjamin Lanz trombone Naho Tsutsui violin Olivier Manchon violin Arnie Weiss violin Rob Moose vio lin Sato Moughalian flute HOOPERS Elaine Tian Lindsay Brickel Anastasia-Dyan Pridlides Stefan Pildes Matthew Krueger The BQE BAM presents singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens songs referencing Chevrolet trucks, back seats, in the world premiere of the 25'h Next Wave hatchbacks, and car factory jobs. But this is commissioned work The BQE-a 30-minute not the typical machismo fascination with symphonic and cinematic exploration of New York cars-horsepower and acceleration-but rather a City's infamous Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. metaphysical romance with movement, progress, A controversial roadway since its inception in and the American landscape, wrestled out with the 1930s, the BQE tears through 11.7 miles of the politics of transportation and car companies. Brooklyn and Queens, severing neighborhoods, The automobile has come to symbolize one of pillaging industrial yards, and contouring the most efficient mechanisms of the American waterways with the brute force of modern urban Dream, the machine by which drivers achieve planning. their own Manifest Destiny. In this context, The BQE seeks to uncover, through soundscape and For the unacquainted driver, the BQE is a beast cinematography, the countless characteristics to be reckoned with. Unlike the high speed of that Manifest Destiny when converged with Autobahn or the prestigious New Jersey Turnpike, urban blight. As a musical and visual expedition, the BQE is a battered and baffling roadway The BQE forages cement surfaces, badly marked plagued by relentless constriction and inexplicable exits, stilted bridges, spectacular city views, road traffic jams. Pot holes, steep grades, sharp turns, workers, commuters, and construction sites for traffic cones, detours, and a parade of big rigs systems and patterns of mass movement that map and Mack trucks create a rollercoaster obstacle out an epic legend inscribed in the twists and course for the unsuspecting commuter. Crumbling turns of city life. The BQE presents a consensus concrete, rusted buttresses, and a persistent cast of abstract patterns of movement and sound of billboards advertising big cars and Hollywood personified in the snakelike meandering of roads , movies convey less an interchange of traffic and evoking a narrative pattern in traffic, in the effects more a post-modern joy ride through the carnival of weather and pollution, in the constant activity spook house of Brooklyn and Queens. of automobiles, the music of the car horn and the hydraulic brake, and the reverent hum of For Stevens, the expressway is not an the combustible car engine thumping for miles unlikely love interest. Born in Detroit, MI, his around. preoccupation with the automobile is apparent in The Hula Hoop vs. The BQE by Sufjan Stevens What does a Hula Hoop have to do with a crowded urban expressway? Much like the automobile, the hoop relies on the basic laws of physics administrated by the simple machine of the wheel , the greatest of human inventions. Notably, there are no macroscopic wheels to be found in animals or plants . It is a purely human construction. And yet the wheel has come to symbolize spiritual transcendence , reincarnation, yin and yang, Chakra , the wheel of life, the calendar, the seasons, astrology, and divinity. We are contained by the rotations of the planets and moons around the sun; we are all cosmically connected by vast circular motions in the solar system. Is it no wonder, then , that this geometric phenomenon has been appropriated both for the modern convenience of the automobile and for the amusement proffered by a plastic toy? Perhaps a creative exegesis of the hoop might begin to unravel the bureaucratic mysteries of the interstate roadway, the automobile, and the Hula Hoop's unlikely nemesis: Robert Moses. A renowned critic of idle recreation, Moses often orchestrated his park projects around more competitive, athletic endeavors: mammoth swimming pools, diving boards , baseball diamonds, and tennis courts . These hefty, utilitarian designs were modern responses to Frederick Law Olmstead's romantic topography intended for less strenuous activities: afternoon strolls, Sunday picnics, and , perhaps, Hula Hooping. Of course, there was nothing natural, bucolic, or egalitarian about Moses's park designs: blocky, The BQE - Additional Who's Who Corrina Albright (viola) is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music. She is heard frequently with such diverse groups as DiCapo Opera, Chelsea Opera, Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, Ionization New Music Ensemble, and is a member of Brooklyn-based rock band La Strada . Recently she has played with jau bassist and composer Ike Sturm, jau pianist and songwriter Anna Dagmar, and jau trombonist and composer Alan Ferber. Albright is on Extended Day faculty at the Berkeley Carroll School in Park Slope. Tim Albright (trombone) is a chamber musician and a cutting-edge jau artist. He is a regular member of many New York ensembles including Atlantic Brass Quintet, Argento New Music Project, and the Riverside Symphony. Albright is also a long-standing member of renowned saxophonist Steve Coleman's group, Five Elements, widely considered one of the most challenging gigs in jazz. He can be heard on numerous recordings and has toured extenSively throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, and the US. Other appearances have included the Intemational Contemporary Ensemble and the Maria Schneider Orchestra. He is frequently heard in the orchestras of current Broadway shows. Albright attended the Eastman School of Music. Mlo "Plco" Alt (violin) entered the Juilliard Pre-college division at the age of ten and graduated with a BM from the school in 2005. She has attended music festivals all around the world and performs frequently in the New York City area. Hldeakl Aomorl (clarinet, saxophone) is a mUlti-instrumentalist freelance musician specializing in classical, jau, and popular music. Past collaborations include performances with Sir Roland Hanna, Tito Puente, Ron Carter, Sufjan Stevens, Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra, and Moscow Chamber Orchestra. A native of Japan, he majored in clarinet performance at The Juilliard School, jau saxophone at Queens College, and is currently completing his doctoral degree at Stony Brook University. His past teachers include Ayako Oshima, Antonio Hart, and Dan Gilbert. Mike Atkinson (conductor, french horn) has performed throughout Europe and the US with Sufjan Stevens playing French hom. He has also adapted tracks from Sufjan's album Enjoy Your Rabbit for the string quartet Osso, which were premiered at the 2007 Music NOW! Festival in Cincinnati. Atkinson plays principal hom in the orchestra for Broadway's production of Les Miserab/es, and received his BM and MM degrees from The Juilliard School. Christopher Colbert (audio engineer) was raised by raccoons in eastern Los Angeles. They taught him much about music and audio engineering. The flashing lights and brightly colored knobs keep him happy and quiet. 'Mat Fleldes (bass) is equally comfortable in jau, rock, hip-hop, R&B, and classical genres, Fieldes has collaborated with such luminaries as Joe Jackson, John Gale, Omette Coleman, Steve Vai, Peter Erskine, Paquito D'Rivera, Krist jan Jarvi, Joe Williams, Arturo Sandoval, and Toni Tennille, among others. His recent appearances include The Dream Engine-the latest vehicle for legendary songwriter Jim Steinman. In 2006 he performd with the acclaimed crossover hip-hop virtual band Gorillaz, live at the Apollo Theater, and hip-hop luminary Jay-Z at Radio City Music Hall. In 2001, he performed on Joe Jackson's album, Symphony, which won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental. Casey Foubert (guitar, vocals, piano) is a multi-instrumentalist, engineer, and producer who lives in the Seattle area. He has toured and recorded with Damien Jurado, Richard Swift, Sufjan Stevens, Jeremy Enigk, TW Walsh, Crystal Skulls, Rocky Votolato, and Pedro the Lion. Joshua Frank (trumpet) performs and teaches in New York City.
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