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Love of Life Orchestra Ceciltaylor BAm BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC LOVE OF LIFE ORCHESTRA CECIL TAYLOR / .WORLD SAXOPHONE OUARTET . ~ =~=~':i-=-. -- .~ ~ ~ @ FE S T I V A L • 8 5 'BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Harvey Lichtenstein, President and ChiefExecutive Officer !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CAREY PLAYHOUSE November 29,19858:00 pm November 30, 1985 8:00 pm PETER GORDON'S LOVE OF LIFE ORCHESTRA Musical Direction: PETER GORDON AND DAVID VAN TIEGHEM Musicians: Peter Gordon Richard Landry "Blue" Gene Tyranl}Y . David Van Tieghem Lenny Pickett Linda Hudes RikAlbani Ned Sublette Tony Garnier Peter Zummo Randy Gun Rebecca Armstrong Larry Saltzman A concert of new music composed by: Peter Gordon David Van Tieghem Linda Hudes Randy Gun "Blue" Gene Tyranny Ned Sublette Sound mix: Eric'Liljestrand Lighting: Jan Kroeze NEXT WAVE FESTJVAL 1985 The NEXT WAVE Production and Touring Fund is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Pew Memorial Trust, Remy Martin Amerique, AT&T, the William and Flora Hewlett Founda­ tion, WiIIiWear Ltd., Goethe House New York, the New York Council for the Humanities, the Educational Foundation of America, the Howard Gilman Foundation, the BestProducts Foundation, Mee~ the Composer, Inc., Abraham & Straus/Federated Department Stores Foundation, Inc., the CIGNA Corporation, Mary Boone,Gallery, and the BAM NEXT w.fVE Producers Council. Additional funds for the NEXT w.fVE FESJ'IVAL are proyided by ~.~.ew York State Council on the Ans~ the Mary Aagler Cary Charitable Trust, Philip Morris Incorporated, the New York Community Trust, ManufaCtu¥s Hanover, Lila Acheson Wallace, the National Institute for Music Theater, the William and Mary Greve Foundation, Inc., the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation, Schlumberger Foundation, "nc., the New York City Department ofCultural Affairs, and Cointreau America, Inc-.WNYC-FM 94 is the offiCial radio station of the NEXT w.fVE. Josepb V. Melillo, Director Micbael'O'Rand, General Manager Julia Gillett, Director ofProduction 13 PETER GORDON'S LOVE OF LIFE ORCHESTRA The Love of Life Orchestra (LOLO) was formed in 1977. It was my intention to form an ensemble which could include musicians of diverse backgrounds who would play a composed music in the American musical vernacular (Le. rock/jazz/pop/new music, etc.) As a com­ poser, .I regard the musicians allowing their personal styles to influence the music as important as the realization of an idealized preconceived sound. The original LOLO had thirteen mem­ bers, the size fluctuating from a duo (David V~n Tieghem and myself) to a fifteen piece ensemble. While the first few performances of LOLO featured work by a number of cumposers in addition to myself ("Blue" Gene Tyranny, Arthur Russell, Jill Kroesen, Ed Friedman, Scott Johnson), this is the first LOLO concert since 1978 to feature work by composers other than myself. - Peter Gordon PETER.GORDON was born in New York music/rock fusion big bands. Gordon has City and spent his early childhood in Virginia also worked as a solo artist and is known for and in Munich, Germany. In Munich he stud- _ his "tone poems," such as Frozen Moments of ied saxophone, music theory, played in rock Passion, which incorporates solo saxophone bands and <ieveloped his continuing interest playing, spoken fragments of pre-r~cotded in radio and other forms of media. He material. Gordon has given hundreds of con­ received his BA in music composition at the certs in Europe and the United States. His University of California, San Diego, where opera The Birth ofthe Poet (in collaboration he studied with Kenneth Gaburo, Roger with Richard Foreman, Kathy Acker, and Reynolds and Pauline Oliveros. Graduate David Salle) premiered in Rotterdam in 1983 work in composition was with Robert Ashley and is being restaged for the Brooklyn ' and Terry Riley at the·Center for Contem­ Academy of Music's NEXT WAVE Festival in porary Music at Mills College, Oakland, the Fall of 1985. Otello, a collaboration with California. the Italian theater company Falso Movimento, Gordon has lived in New York City since for which he won a 1985 Village Voice OBIE 1975, working first as a saxophonist for a award, has been performed throughout the variety of blues, rock and avant-garde artists, United States a~d internationally, since its then putting together his. own ensembles. American premiere at La Mama. Secret Since 1977 Gordon has composed music for, Pastures, a music/dance/theater collaboration performed with, and co-directed with David with choreographers Bill T. Jones and Arnie Van Tieghem, 'the Love of Life Orchestra, Zane, visual artist Keith Haring, and designer one of the earliest and best known new Willi Smith, premiered with the Love ofLife Orchestra in the Brooklyn Academy of Tharp's Fait Accompli which has been per­ Music's NEXT WAVE Festival in the fall of formed at Brooklyn Academy of Music, the 1984. His most recent work, The Passion of ' Olympic Arts Festival in Los A,ngeles, and Passion, ,an interactive music/video ~ollabo­ the Gershwin Theater on Broadway. In'1984, ration with video artist Kit Fitzgerald, thesoundtrack for Fait Accompli was released recently completed a European tour. by Warner Bros. Records as the LP These Besides composing and performing, Things Happen (WB25105-1), along with a Gordon is also an arranger, record producer dance-club remix and an,MTV',video. and radio producer, having collabo~ted with Also in 1984, he was commissioned by chore- . many new music and visual artists. He' has ographer Elisa Monte to compose the music composed music for several choreographers, for her works Indoors, presented in BAM's and has recorded for several labels; his NEXT WAVE Festival, and VIIfor VIII, recently recorded album for CBS Master­ premiered 'by the Boston Ballet. works, "Love ofLife," will be released early In 1985, he completed work on Laurie in 1986. Anderson's new ftIm, and created an original DAVID VAN TIEGHEM has worked with score for the Pennsylvania Ballet, commis­ the Manhattan Percussion' Ensemble, Steve sioned by choreographer'Richard Tanner. He Reich, Laurie Anderson, Peter Gordon's Love is currently preparing material for a new rec- of Life Orchestra, video artists John Sanborn ord to be released in 1986.. ' & Kit Fitzgerald,.Brian Eno &,David Byrne, LINDA HUDES attended the Hartt School of' Jon Gibson, Talking Heads, Robert Gordon, Music. She is keyboard player'and composer Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes & Simon for the Big Apple Circus and the' Linda LeBon, Chris Spedding, Garland Jeffreys, Hudes Power Trio, which recently released a Yellow Magic Orchestra's Ryuichi Sakamoto, single on Power & Glory Music. She has Richard Peaslee, Jerry Harrison, the Big been recording and performing in New York Apple Circus, David Moss, and Robert Ash­ for several,years. ley, to name a few. LENNY PICKETT is a virtuoso saxophonist He has presented his solo percussion-theater ~d composer who has worked and recorded performances, Message Received.. .Proceed with David Bowie, Mic~ Jagger, Talking Accordingly (A Man & His Toys), in such Heads, Ned Sublette and Love of Life venues as Carnegie Hall, the Bottom Line, Orchestra, among others. He has created Alice Thlly Hall, the Kitchen, the Palladium, scores for theater, fum and dance, including Danceteria, the Guggenheim and Whitney the Bessie award winning music composed for Museums, NBC-TV's lLlte Night with David choreographer Steven Petronio. He is a member Letterman, the Walker Art Center in Min­ of the saxophone trio The Borneo Horns. neapolis, New Music America in Washing­ NED SUBLETTE is a schooled musician ton, D.C. ~ the Festival Di\utomme in Paris, with roots in cowboy music and radio. He and 17 cities in Japan. recently toured with The Passion ofPassion In 1983, he created the score for Twyla throughout Europe, and toured with The Southwesterners in 1981. Since 1981 Sublette plays trumpet for the Linda Hudes POwer has been working on a new repertoire of Trio, and has performed extensively in New country-rock songs in the honky-tonk style. York City. Sublette has recorded on Lovely Music and "BLUE" GENE TYRANNY has been per­ Giorno Poetry Systems. forming since the late 1960s. He has played REBECCA ARMSTRONG studied music at with Iggie Pop, and appeared in the legendary Oberlin and architecture at Cooper Union. In ONCE Festival. He was featured in Robert addition to being a member of Steve Reich Ashley's video opera Perfect Lives, and now and Musicians since 1976, she has toured tours with Ashley's Atalanta and Timothy and/or recorded with many other composers, Buckley and the Troublemakers. He has been including Robert Ashley, Meredith Monk, recorded on Lovely Music. Peter Gordon, David Van Tieghem, Jay RANDY GUN is a senior member of the Clayton and Kirk Nurock. She is the Love of Life Orchestra, and has performed featured soloist at ..Trinity Church and has with several musicians throughout the New appeared in video works by John Sanborn York area. He is currently devoting his time and Kit ,Fitzgerald. to his new band, The New Doloreans. lONY GARNIER'S career began with a five RICHARD LANDRY attended the Univer­ year stint'with Grammy winning Texas band, sity of Southwestern Louisiana, and moved to Asleep At The Wheel. In 1978 he moved to New York in 1968. He has performed with New York and has worked with Robert many musicia~s, including Philip Glass, Gordon, Dr. John, Marshall Crenshaw, Steve Reich, William Fischer and Peter Gor­ David Johanson, the Lounge Lizards, Joan don. 'Landry toured with Robert Wilson's Armatrading, Bo Diddley, and others. He has Einstein On The Beach in Europe, and has been working with Peter Gordon since 1981. been performing with the Love of Life PETER ZUMMO is a Ph.D.
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