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Side Two: Love Songs, a suite for five women and three men, had been given its world premiere four years earlier by John Cranko's Stuttgart Ballet, where Forsythe was a dancer during the 1970s. The music consisted of hit tunes, most of them upbeat torch songs, recorded by Aretha Franklin and Dionne Warwick. The aggressively dramatic spotlighting swathed the stage in black velvet and diamonds. Forsythe's embattled choreogra phy was clearly speaking a new language jazzless, neoclassical- rattled off at a breakneck pace and subject to a variety of formal and logis tical distortions. Ballett Frankfurt's Enemy in the Figure Whether one found it brutalizing or energizing, Photo: Dominik Mentzos the one thing that everyone could see was that it 12 had no room for adagio, for lyricism. Indeed, instance, Pina Bausch- a trained dancer who is Forsythe's Square Deal, which he fashioned for fascinated by behavior and social mannerism the Joffrey in 1983 out of a work of his called Forsythe's obsession remains the abstract vocabu Gaenge, had no room for dancing. It contained lary of classicism; it is the material he breaks behavior, text (some of it screamed), and lighting down scientifically and that serves as his creative (designed by Forsythe's colleague and admirer point of departure. Jennifer Tipton) that included a moment when, in order to see a dancer, one had to look into a "I like classical dance," Forsythe told an interview strobe. Instead of a choreographer's credit, er in 1984, the year he was appointed artistic Forsythe's name was placed next to "Composition director of the Frankfurt Ballet. "I think it's a nice, and Visual Effects." Whatever language he was neutral language. You look at a ballet and you speaking, it was not the language of love. read history.... What we try to do is to keep the syntax logical without resorting to rhetorical ballet Few individual dances have unlocked the zeitgeist language. Choreography is a language. It's like for a generation of choreographers as Side Two: the alphabet, and you don't necessarily have to Love Songs did. During the 1980s and '90s, its spell words you know .... The most important look of searing candor in human relationships, its thing is how you speak with the language, not renegade refusal to pass through ballet's five posi what you say." tions between steps and poses, its twisting and flattening of the body, its jitterbug-like partnering, In the two subsequent decades, Forsythe has be swept across the repertoires of major ballet com come one of the most popular, prolific, and power panies, often embodied in new works that ful choreographers in the U.S. and Europe. He Forsythe created for them. Its world lives on in the now has ballets around the world, but, as the Bal output of such modern-dance choreographers as let! Frankfurt Web site puts it, "These works tend Stephen Petronio, Susan Marshall, and Alonso to focus primarily upon ballet dancing, whereas King, all of whom made dances for Ballet! Frank with his own Ballet! Frankfurt ensemble he tends furt in the late 1980s and early '90s, and in the to use more complex movement and theatrical work of John Jasperse, whose new work, Giant environments." (His Frankfurt audience is both Empty (at BAM, Nov 14- 18) marked the begin devoted to and delighted by him, as I learned when ning of an ongoing artistic collaboration with Sal I saw a company performance there in 1998.) lett Frankfurt. Forsythe's choreography also had a retrospective effect, especially on Balanchine's In 1999 he became the overall director of Ballet! ballets, which choreographers and audiences Frankfurt and of TAT, a vast performance space in began to study for their structural scaffolding the city that is fashioned out of a converted rather than for their individual images. tramway depot. One of the works that BAM audi ences will see this season-Woo/f Phrase, which Choreographers of Forsythe's age or older, such as refers to portions of Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs. Hans van Manen and Jirf Kylian, were achieving Dalloway-was given its premiere at TAT earlier similar effects, but no one else had Forsythe's vis this year. The other two works, Enemy in the ceral punch or unresolved visual complexity in a Figure and Quintett, are both from the 1990s. dance-theater where the accent was on dance. Forsythe, considered to be among the master Few other major choreographer since Martha Gra lighting designers for dance in the world, will ham were quite as ready as Forsythe to give over illuminate them all. certain aspects of authorship to dancers, such as the invention of themes or phrases. Mindy A/off teaches dance history and criticism at Barnard and serves as a consultant and an Forsythe seems to have mapped out a new main editor for The George Batanchine Foundation. stream dance culture whose borders are hip-hop, house music, gender studies, and literary decon Ballett Frankfurt appears at BAM's Howard struction-he knew where we wanted to go be Gilman Opera House on Dec 14, 15, 18-20 at fore we quite knew ourselves. Unlike, for 7:30pm; Dec 16 at 3pm. 14 AN EXTRAORDINARY FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE FOR AN AUDIENCE OF ONE. Strong, enduring relationships and superior, personal service define Private Banking at H SBC. 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Fishman Chai rman of the Board Karen Brooks Hopkins Joseph V. Melillo President Executive Producer Medgar Evers College City University of New York Dr. Edison 0. Jackson President present The Annual Brooklyn Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. BAM Howard Gilman Opera House January 21, 2002 at 10:30 a. m. Special guest Russell Simmons Musical guests Donnie McClurkin SRC All-City Chorale Major support for the annual Brooklyn tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is provided by AT&T Media support is provided by The New York Times Community Affairs Department. 17 Every year since 1987, the office of the Brooklyn Borough President, and in recent years Medgar Evers College, City University of New York, has joined with the Brooklyn Academy of Music to celebrate the life and work of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the slain civil rights leader who inspired generations of people around the world to fight for their rights and their com munities. This year's celebration is Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz's first as host following Howard Golden's tenure. The annual cele bration of Dr. King and his legacy, which annually draws more than 2,000 people to BAM, is the largest and oldest such tribute in New York City. Each Brooklyn tri bute to Martin Luther King, Jr. has focused on both his personal accomplishments and his role as a source of inspiration for others. The 1990 celebration, for example, showcased remarks by Dr. Carolyn Goodman, mother of Andrew Goodman; and Ju lia Chaney, sister of James Chaney; two young civi l rights workers murdered in Mississippi in 1964 at the start of the "Freedom Summer" voter registration drive. In 1998 United Nations Secretary-General and 2001 Nobel Peace Prize-winner Kofi Annan spoke at the event, which coincided with the 50th-anniversary of the U.N.'s General Declaration of Human Rights. The gathering underscored the link between the Secretary-General's stewardship of the world body and many of Dr. King's ideals, as well as efforts in Brooklyn to promote concord in a diverse community. In 1999 the keynote address was delivered by Georgia Congressmember John Lewis, the civil rights veteran who joined Dr. King as a speaker at the 1963 March on Washington. The gathering focused on Dr. King's visionary qualities, emphasizing his wish for a nonracial society and fair treatment. The 2000 celebration fea tured special guests First Lady Hil lary Rodham Cl inton, U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, and keynote speaker Patricia Wi lliams, professor of law at Columbia University School of Law and MacArthur Fel lowship recipient. Senator Schumer and recently-elected U.S. Senator Clinton were joined in 2001 by civi l rights and business leader Myrlie Evers-Williams, who delivered the keynote address. Other speakers and entertainers to appear at the celebration over the years include folk singer Odella, television personality AI Raker, actors F. Murray Abraham and Regina Taylor, writer/lecturer Paul Robeson Jr., and Dr. Edison Jackson of Medgar Evers College. BAM would like to acknowledge the generous support of AT&T, which has been a major sponsor of the annual Brooklyn tribute to Dr. Ma rtin Luther King, Jr. si nee 1994. Please join us at BAM Rose Cinemas following the program for free screenings at 1 & 4pm of Clark Johnson's film Boycott about the Montgomery bus boycott. It features actor Jeffrey Wright, who will be present to make remarks. Special thanks to HBO Films. 18 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a man who devoted his life to the fight for full citizenship rights of the poor, disadvantaged, and racially oppressed in the United States. After receiving a bachelor of science degree (1948) from Morehouse College, a bachelor's degree (1951) from Crozer Theological Seminary, and a doctoral degree (1955) from Boston University, Dr. King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Photo: Yoichi Okamoto, courtesy Lyndon Baines Montgomery, Alabama. He and his wife, Coretta Scott King, whom he Johnson Library. met and married while at Boston University, had been living in Montgomery less than a year when Mrs. Rosa Parks defied the ordinance concerning segregated seating on city buses. In reaction to this event Dr. King successfully organized a yearlong bus boycott, which catapulted him to national prominence as a leader of the civil rights movement. After the boycott Dr. King, who had studied the life and teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, began touring the nation, preaching and further develop ing for the United States the Indian leader's doctrine of nonviolent civil dis obedience. Meanwhile, Dr. King was also writing his first book, Stride Toward Freedom, which was published in 1958. In 1960 Dr. King and his father became co-pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, and Martin Luther King, Jr. became president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). During this time Dr. King also organized the massive March on Washington (August 28, 1963) where he delivered his brilliant "I Have A Dream" speech. The January 1964 issue of Time maga zine named Dr. King Man of the Year, the first black American to receive the honor. Later that year, Dr. King became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize at age 35. Early in 1968, while planning a second March on Washington, Dr. King flew to Memphis, Tennessee, to lend ·his support to striking laborers. There, on April 4, Dr. King was assassinated. With his violent death, a symbol of moral and social progress in America was lost, and riots were ignited around the country. In 1983 Dr. King's birthday was designated a national holiday. 19 Marty Markowitz, rehabilitation in Crown Heights and Flatbush, Brooklyn borough and repeatedly rebuffed efforts to dismantle New president, was York's rent stabilization and rent control laws. born and raised in Crown Heights. Markowitz founded the Senior Citizen's League He began his pub of Flatbush, of which he was president from lic career in 1971 1972- 78; the Fenimore Street Senior Citizen at the age of 26, Center; and the Ebbets Field Houses Senior by organizing the Center. In addition, he introduced a bi ll to el im Flatbush Tenants inate ma ndatory retirement in New York State, Counci l, which successfu lly sheparding it to passage. grew into Brook lyn Housing and Markowitz's concern for women's health has Family Services, been exemplified through initiatives including the largest ten sponsorship of a bi ll mandating minimum cov ants' advocacy erage for inpatient maternity care and support organization in New York State. Markowitz was for the ban on "drive-through mastectomies," elected to the New York State Senate in 1979 as well as his stalwart support for abortion and served 11 consecutive terms in Albany, rights. Markowitz brought the first State funding reaching his lifelong goal of becoming Brooklyn to Brooklyn's Caribbean Women's Health borough president when he took office earlier Association. He named the association's this month. Markowitz has committed himself founder and executive director, Yvonne to being "Brooklyn's chief advocate, biggest pro Graham, as his deputy borough president. moter, best salesman, greatest defender, and most enthusiastic cheerleader." Markowitz was nine when his father died. His family, consisting of himself, two baby sisters, Markowitz's three decade-plus career is often and his mother, moved to one of Brooklyn's described as one of passionate and powerful public housing projects, struggling to survive advocacy on behalf of Brooklyn and its residents, primarily on social security survivor benefits, particularly in the areas of housing, neighborhood Markowitz's evening and weekend earnings, preservation, and community development. As a and also on publ ic assistance. These challenges senator, his office was noted for its responsive have fueled Markowitz's strong commitment to constituent services, while his legislative agenda providing opportunities for Brooklyn's youth. To promoted services for senior citizens, and health, create recreational outlets he established the housing, education, and social programs for the Central Brooklyn Baseball League, in coopera benefit of all Brooklyn residents. tion with the Police Athletic League, and coordi nated scholarships for low-income Brooklyn In addition to founding the Flatbush Tenants children to attend summer camp, an experience Council, Markowitz co-founded Flatbush that Markowitz says "saved his life" while he Development Corporation, one of Brooklyn's was growing up. He has also provided funding leading neighborhood and commercial preserva for Brooklyn organizations that offer programs tion associations. As a senator he secured fund for children ranging from sports to cultural pro ing for many of Brooklyn's neighborhood and gramming, mentoring, homework help, and community support organizations, including anti-violence train ing, and has fought to obtain obtaining the first State funds allocated for Brooklyn's fa ir share of funding for schools. Brooklyn's Caribbean American Chamber of Commerce and the Brookl yn Holocaust Center. Ma rkowitz is recognized for creati ng two of Markowitz led the fight for large-scale housing New York City's largest free concert series: the 20 (continued on page 45) t:2001 Authorized Mercedes-Benz Dealers .. Vi sit your Mercedes-Benz Tri-State Dealer today. S500 shown with optional Sport Package. For more information, calll-800-FOR-MERCEDES. or visit MBUSA.com. AIR BAGS ARE A SUPPLEMENTAL RESTRAINT SYSTEM, SO REMEMBER AIR BAG SAFETY: BUCKLE EVERYONE AND CHILDREN IN BACK! ' " A trio of Claudio Monteverdi's How's this for a story idea: a guitar-playing hunk goes through hell to win back his lost love? Or 17th-century operas, in stunningly how about a plot involving the tale of a woman varied productions, prove to BAM who fights off the advances of rich men because she is sti ll in love with her husband, a soldier, audiences this spring that the art missing in action for 20 years? Is a saga of sex and politics, adultery and its consequences, form's roots offer rich rewards. contemporary enough? By Judith Malafronte These are not Hollywood pitches. They are the plotlines of the three surviving operas by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the northern Italian composers whose experiments with theatrical forms more than 400 years ago led to the birth of opera. When Orfeo, II Ritorno d'U/isse in Patria, and L'lncoronazione di Poppea come to BAM this spring, produced, respectively, by Chicago Opera Theater, the Aix-en-Provence Festiva l, and the Dutch National Opera, audiences will have a rare chance to listen to all three Monteverdi L"/ncoronazione di Poppea Photo by Marco Borggreve works in close proximity. The trio have been 22 presented simultaneously before: In the 1970s invited audience of intellectual aristocrats. The director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle and conductor Chicago Opera Theater (COT) production Nikolaus Harnoncourt teamed up to look at attempts to re-create the feel of a swanky gather these works for the Zurich Opera, and the result ing, with cocktail dresses, black-and-white glam ing videos document their approach. And in our, and champagne-pouring waiters. The titular Milwaukee in late 1988, director Stephen hero becomes a celebrity bad-boy pop singer, Wadsworth presented these pieces as a visually and when his girlfriend dies suddenly, he decides and psychologically unified cycle, heightened by to use his musical gifts to bring her back from double- and triple-casting among a versatile the dead. As stage director Diane Paulus puts it, young ensemble. But when BAM presents the "The dark of night inhabits Orfeo's soul as he cycle, it may be the first chance to attend all embarks on a journey to realms where even hope three in vastly different approaches. cannot accompany him. But where is this under world? Is it within or without?" Monteverdi's operas are intimate and personal works, exposing the hearts and minds of ordinary Brian Dickie, COT's general director, was the humans, and bringing the emotions of mythologi mastermind behind the pairing of off-Broadway cal figures, emperors, gods, and goddesses with director Paulus, a protegee of experimental direc in our grasp. There are no Gypsies, pharaohs, or tor Andrei Serban, and British musicologist garret-dwelling poets. There are no massive conductor Jane Glover, who boasts a long orchestras, corps de ballet, symmetrically arranged resume in opera. Neither the director nor the choristers, or big-name vocal heavyweights. conductor views Orfeo as a museum piece or has attempted to re-create a 17th-century theatrical Orfeo had its premiere in a small room in the experience. For one thing, there are no surviving ducal palace at Mantua in 1607, before an costume renderings or set sketches, nor do the Orfeo Photo by Liz Lauren 24 AI.YI[RO MARTINI 605 MADISON AVEN UE TEL.646-521-0 100 COMMEMORATIVE LIMITED EDITION BAG ALVIERO MARTINI WILL DONATE A PORTION OF EACH BAG SOLD UNTIL DECEMBER 31st TO BENEF IT "SEPTEMBER 1 1th CH ILDREN'S FUND" www.alviero-martini .com librettos include any stage directions. There is no of the opera's male and female leads (Kresimir authoritative and accurate musical edition, and Spicer and Marijana Mijanovic), he Croatian, she only a partial list of instruments used at the Serbian , comparing them to Roberto Alagna and premiere survives. Angela Gheorghiu, the opera world's media hogging couple. This is where Glover's scholarly background and experience in editing 17th-century music comes For this production, American conductor William into play. "Throughout rehearsa ls," she notes, Christie renewed his working relationship with "everybody- singers, instrumentalists, production Ad rian Noble of Britain's Royal Shakespeare team- will contribute. Each note or chord will Company. Whi le Noble has few opera credits, the have some decision made about it. Should it be Sha kespearean features of Ulisse are not lost on short or long, loud or soft, attacked or stroked , the director. "In fact," he notes, "there is the fast or slow? Which particular word or syllable same mix of genres. Psychology, of course, plays should be pointed? How and where should we a prominent role, particularly for Penelope, who deploy ornamentation? Above all , after making has become so habituated to her role of widow these decisions, how can we keep them alive? that she is utterly terrified of the real ity of her We must retain that very spontaneity which husband's return, after such a long absence. In marked Monteverdi's response to the text. For, any case, it's a beautiful example of psychologi ultimately, all live theater is of its moment." cal subtlety- it reminds me of A Winter's Tale ." II Ritorno d'Uiisse , from the 2000 Aix-en Intimacy and psychological subtlety are achieved Provence Festival , was praised by the critics (the with evocative sets. The prologue establishes the London Times called it "the operatic event of the tone of timelessness with a desert setting (the year, if not more"). The public, meanwhi le, was stage is covered in sand), in which a naked endlessly fascinated with the real-life relationship si nger in the role of "Human Frailty" is poked, Orfeo Ph oto by Li z Lauren continued on page 62 26 Brooklyn Academy of Music Henry Christensen Ill Kitty C. Linder Ex-Officio Beth Rudin DeWoody John Lipsky Hon. Rudolph Giuliani Chairman of the Board Charles M. Diker Laurie Mallet Hon. Howard Golden Bruce C. Ratner Robert W. Donohue Cathy-Ann Martine Hon. Herbert E. 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The Campaign for BAM was initiated in 1992 to create Phase Two (1996-2000) combined operating, endow Brooklyn Academy of Music's first endowment. Phase One ment, institutional development, and building renovation (1992-1995) established a $12 million nucleus which needs into one unified effort and achieved the endowment has provided BAM with a strong financial foundation and goal of $20 million. The continued growth of the endow supports all BAM operations through annual distribution ment is critical to the success and future of BAM. Phase of interest income. Three (2001-2005) of the Campaign is now underway with a goal of expanding the endowment to the level of $40 million. BAM sincerely thanks the many contributors who have made major gifts to the endowment effort. Endowm ent $1,000,000 and above The Horace W. Goldsmith $50,000 and above $10,000 and above Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Robert & Joan Catell Alta Mechanical Corp. 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Diker Dance Diamond 34 DAVID SAlTY JEWELRY - since 1965 - The largest and best collection ofNative American jewelry in the country, some of them museum quality, featuring never-before-seen masterpieces ofHop~ Zuni and Navajo artisans. This collection has been featured in every major media including Wlgue, Elle, Glamour, Harper's Bazaar, Mirabella, Mademoiselle, Amica, Smithsonian, The New York Times, as weD as television stations nationwide. BAM sincerely thanks its many contributors listed below whose notation (E). BAM major individual supporters are noted gifts over the past year are greatly appreciated. This listing (NS) for Next Society. Members of BAM Patron Councils are primarily recognizes support for BAM's annual operating needs identified as Chairman's Circle (CC) and Prod ucers Council and also acknowledges endowment contributions with the (PC). $500,000 or more $50,000 or more $25,000 or more E.M. 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Photo by John Tramper The Monteverdi Cycle II ritorno d'Uiisse in patria les Arts Florissants & the Aix-en -Provence European Academy of Music Apr 7, 8, 10, 11, 13 & 14 L'incoronazione di Poppea Dutch National Opera & les Talens lyriques Apr 16, 19 & 21 Orfeo Chicago Opera Theater " Apr 22, 24, 26 & 27 BAMcinematek is closed for the holidays from Dec 21- Jan 31. BAM Rose Cinemas will remain open for first-run films. For complete details, visit bam.org. For weekly schedules, call 718.636.4100 x2 . For tickets call 718.777.FILM (order by "name of movie" option) or visit bam.org. BAMcafe Dinner & Movie $30 at the box office only. 43 B ullish? Bearish? Aggressive 1 Conservative? Can your asset manager be what he needs to be? One-size- fits-all may be right for some things. But not for managing money. Your financial objectives are unique. Your investment strategy should be, too. It's one reason clients have come to us to manage their assets for more than 200 years. With different objectives. In different market conditions. And with one common goal: satisfaction. To learn more, call Peter R. Bingenheimer, Vice President, at 212-408-7785. .. THE BANK OF NEW YORK P RI V ATE C LI ENT SE RVI CES SINCE 1 784 www.bankof n y. com C>2001 The Ban k of New York Member FDIC (continued from page 20) Seaside Summer Concert series, created in and class boundaries; and that hip-hop would 1979, and the Martin Luther King Jr. Concert evolve from a musical form into a lifestyle series, created in 1983, which bring interna expression- a culture unto itself. For almost two tional stars to standing-room-only audiences decades Simmons has brought hip-hop to every each summer. They remain New York City's facet of media and pop culture: in music with largest and most popular concert series. the immensely successful Del Jam Recordings; Markowitz also initiated the Prospect Park in the fashion industry with the Phat Farm Children's Concert series. clothing line; in film with Simmons/Lathan/ Brillstei n/G rey (SLBG) and Del Pictures; in televi Markowitz is a member of the East Midwood sion with HBO's The Def Comedy Jam and One Jewish Center, the New York City Urban World Music Beat; and in magazine publishing League, Hawks International (Trinidad ian) , with One World magazine. Considered "a hip Bedford Stuyvesant Lions Club, and is the hop mogu l" by the Wall Street Journal and Brooklyn Chair of the Loyal League of Yiddish crowned The Rap Impresario by Time maga Sons of Erin. He is a life member of the zine, Simmons is chairman of Rush National Council of Negro Women/Fiatbush Communications, Inc., a diversified multi branch and the NAACP. Among his greatest media company which oversees the manage honors are his former service as the Brooklyn ment of all of his companies. co-chair of the United Negro College Fund and his designation as Grand Marshal at the largest SRC All-City Chorale, under the direction of Caribbean parade in the United States, spon Sheila Ravenel Carpenter, consists of more sored by the West Indian American Day than 90 members of New York's most dynamic Carnival Association. He was also awarded gospel choirs, soloists, worship leaders, and very special recognition by Church Women choir directors. Carpenter pulls ta lent from United of Brooklyn. Markowitz is married to the neighboring churches, choirs, and groups to former Jamie Snow, whose family resides in form choruses for various events around the Manhattan Beach. New York area. Carpenter was hai led in the New York Times for her role as choir coordina Russell Simmons is a native New Yorker who tor for the production of Lincoln Center came of age in the late '70s, just as hip-hop Festival's 1999 Gospel Extravaganza at Avery was emerg Fisher Hal l, featuring gospel artists Shirley ing in the Caesar, Donnie McClurkin, Hezekiah Walker, city's Helen Baylor, and Yolanda Adams. African American Donnie McClurkin is one of the most talented neighbor rising stars in the contemporary gospel music hoods. world. McClurkin has worked with numerous Simmons is gospel artists, including the legendary Andrae an entre Crouch, and as the lead singer for his own preneur vocal groups, including the McClurkin Singers who has and the New York Restoration Choir. In 1989 helped to he was hired as an associate minister at define the Marvin Winans' Perfecting Church in Detroit cutting and, after recovering from leukemia, estab edge of lished himself as a leading choir director. His hip-hop. recordings include a 1996 self-titled CD and His vision stems from two key points: that hip several albums with the New York Restoration hop's appeal could cut across geographic, race, Choir. He has performed recently on the Oprah 45 Winfrey Dr. Edison 0. Jackson is president of Medgar show and on Evers College of The City University of New York, the sound a position he has held since 1989. Born in track of the Virginia , he earned bachelor (zoology) and grad acclaimed uate (counseling) degrees at Howard University, animated and went on to earn a doctorate in education at fi lm, The Rutgers University. He has been employed at a Prince of number of educational institutions, including Egypt. His Essex County College in New Jersey, Upsala highly antici College in New Jersey, and Compton Community pated album College in Compton, California, where he was Live in presidenVsuperintendent prior to assuming his London and post at Medgar Evers College. Dr. Jackson serves More, featur on the boards of many civic, educational, com ing the hit munity, and cultural organizations, including the single "We Fall Down," is scheduled for release Crown Heights Coalition, of which he is a co in the near future. chair; the Catholic Interracial Council of New York, Inc.; the Prospect Park Alliance, the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is recog Brooklyn Children's Museum, the Brooklyn nized internationally for its innovative program Museum of Art, and BAM , among others. He ming of dance, music, theater, music-theater, has written extensively on issues of concern to and opera. In addition to presenting leading educators with particular emphasis on minority national and international artists, BAM identi students and the community, academic prepara fies and supports the work of ground-breaking, tion, and student performance. He has received contemporary artists in the perform ing arts with numerous awards for service; recent citations its Next Wave Festival, founded in 1983, one include the National Committee for the of the world's most im porta nt cu ltural festivals. Furtherance of Jewish Faith Educational America's oldest perform ing arts center in con Leadership Award and the Church Women tinuous operation, BAM, has presented perfor United in Brooklyn, Inc. Education Award . Dr. mances si nee 1861. Jackson is a resident of Brooklyn. BAM also serves New York City's diverse popu AT&T has a proud history of supporting institu lation through a wide variety of educational tions that make Brooklyn a special place to live programs. BAM's role in the community has in and work. The AT&T Volunteer Computer recent years been expanded by the creation of Coach program at the Brooklyn Public Library, BAMcafe and the BAM Rose Cinemas. Since the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn 1999 Karen Brooks Hopkins and Joseph V. College, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art have Melillo have served as, respectively, president benefited from AT&T philanthropy, as have and executive producer. They succeeded smaller community-based organizations. Harvey Lichtenstein, who held those positions since 1967. AT&T Corp. is among the world's premier voice and data communications companies, serving more than 80 million customers, including consumers, businesses, and government. With annua l revenues of more than $62 billion and 148,000 employees, AT&T provides services to customers worldwide. 46 Backed by the research and development capa outsourcing, consulting, and networking bilities of AT&T Labs, the company runs the integration to large businesses. It is also the world's largest, most sophisticated communica nation's largest direct Internet access service tions network and has one of the largest digital for consumers. wireless networks in North America. The New York Times joins the Annual Brooklyn The company is a leading supplier of data Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. this year and Internet services for busi nesses and offers as media sponsor. The Annu al Brooklyn Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Additional events at BAM BAM Rose Cinemas-Free Screenings Monday, January 21 at 1 & 4 p.m. Boycott (2001), 118 min. Directed by Clark Johnson Featuring Jeffrey Wright, CCH Pounder, Carmen Ejogo Jeffrey Wright will be present to make remarks. A highly acclaimed documentary-style film, Boycott chronicles the Montgomery bus boycott fol lowi ng Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a crowded bus in 1955. Director Clark Johnson's film stars Jeffrey Wright (Basquiat, Shaft) as a young Reverend King struggli ng to lead the massive boycott, which ultimately became the cornerstone of the Civil Rights Movement. The film also fea tures a dynamic soundtrack with performances from Nat "King" Cole, Dizzy Gillespie, Kirk Frankl in, Sweet Honey in the Rock, and Beverly Crawford, among others. BAMcate-Music for Or. King Saturday, January 19 at 9 p.m. Brooklyn Saxophone Quartet This jazz ensemble will premiere Prophet for Peace: Suite for Or. Martin Luther King, Jr. a BAMcafe commission composed by Brooklyn resident Fred Ho. This new composition features three movements: "We Shall Overcome Blues," "Lift Every Voice and Sing: Black National Anthem," and "Dr. King, the Peaceful Warrior" (based on a song by Cal Massey). Saturday, January 26 at 9 p.m. David Gilmore and Sadiq Bey For his Music for Dr. King engagement jazz guitarist David .Gilmore performs with Sadiq Bey, one of the most affecting and dyna mic poets on the spoken word scene. 47 BAM 2001 Next W;we Festival is Festival Suppo After World War II, Brooklyn Academy of Music declined as its audience moved elsewhere. Language classes and martial arts instruction were booked into performance spaces. By the time Harvey Lichtenstein was appointed director in February 1967, the programs and facilities needed revitalization. During the 32 years that Mr. Lichtenstein was at the helm, BAM experienced a complete renaissance, highlighted by the creation of the Next Wave Festival in 1983 and the BAM Majestic Theater in 1987. Upon his retirement in June 1999, the Majestic was renamed the BAM Harvey Lichtenstein Theater. The Brooklyn Philharmonic is the resident orchestra of Brooklyn Academy of Music, performing at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House and BAM Harvey Theater five weekends each season. In addition , some 10,000 Brooklyn school child ren hear the orchestra's free educational concerts each year. Robert Spano became the orchestra's fourth music director in 1996. Under his direction the Brooklyn Philharmonic has emerged as one of New York's preeminent music ensembles and continues to discover new repertoire. Critics have consistently praised the quality of the Brooklyn Phi lharmonic's performances, programming, and creative concert presentations. The orchestra has presented more than 100 premieres at BAM since it was founded in 1954 by Siegfried Landau. Lukas Foss, music director from 1971-90, is now conductor laureate. Dennis Russell Davies served as music director from 1991-96. 651 ARTS develops, produces, and presents arts and cultural program ming grounded in the African Diaspora, with a primary focus on contem porary performing arts. 651's music, theater, humanities, and residency programs take place at the BAM Harvey Theater and many other Brooklyn venues in order to help build the arts throughout the borough. Since its founding in 1988, 651 has showcased distinctive artists, including Abbey Li ncoln, Spike Lee, Terry McMi llan, Tito Puente, and Max Roach, among many others. 651 first attracted national attention with its land mark festiva l 100 Years of Jazz and Blues, and has also proudly pre sented and produced such programs as Anna Deavere Smith's Fires in the Mirror and Donald Byrd's The Harlem Nutcracker. Photos (top to bottom): current BAM facility ca. 1920, H(N{ard Gilman Opera House interiat; the BAM Harvey Theater. Robert Spano by Michael Darter. 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The show tells two parallel stories: the tale of Tutankhamen, the Egyptian prince who became pharaoh at age nine and died at 18, and the story of Howard Carter, the 20th-century archeologist who discovered King Tut's tomb and revealed its treasures. In a new production by T heatreworks/USA, these two lives come together as both Tut and Carter discover the power of responsibility and knowledge. AJthough Mindi Dickstein has altered histor ical fact slightly to fi ll in the gaps in King Tut's story, her witty script and a soaring pop score by Daniel Messe make the study of history and archeology seem the most exciting adventure in the world. For director Gordon Greenberg, The Mystery of Tut is easily solved: "In simplest terms, fame doesn't mean anything in and of itself. Finding your own priorities, realizing your potential as a good human being, and bringing something of value to others is what matters. That's something audiences of all ages can relate to." 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Bon Appetit French Brunch on Sunday Dinner from 5:30 to 11 :00 718-499-1433 278 Fifth Avenue Between Garfield and 1st Park Slope, New York -.A Photo of Ra lph Fiennes, moderator Jayme Koszyn and Lin us Roache by Julie Lemberger AT&T Proud to support BAMdialogues for their generous and continued support of BAM continued from page 26 II Ritorno d'Uiisse Photo by Elizabeth Carecchio prodded, teased, and tormented by the forces of with fire. But I would prefer not to have my vocal Time, Fortune, and Love. So are the characters of cords toasted." Stubbs, as one of the many Ulysses, Penelope, and their son, Telemachus, accompanying players in the pit, finds that the drawn from the last half of Homer's Odyssey, at only challenge with the staging is musical the mercy of these elements. co-ordination, because of the large stage space and the numerous precise and intricate move The Dutch National Opera's L'lncoronazione di ments required by Audi. "But the great advantage Poppea teams stage director Pierre Audi with of having an excellent continuo player as the harpsichordist Christophe Roussel in a produc musical director is that he will always know tion that is neither ultra-contemporary like COT's when not to conduct. In this case, Roussel's own Orfeo, nor timelessly mythological like Ai x's subtle yet dramatic way with the harpsichord is Ulisse. The work is basically a study of thenar one of the delights of the show." cissistic manipulations of the Roman emperor Nero and the vixen Poppea, resulting in the death A cocktail-party Hell, an ancient Ithaca, a psy and exile of the noble and virtuous characters, chologically empty Rome-the settings vary, but and the triumph of the bad guys. Countertenor all three operas pit the individual against the Jeffrey Gall, who sang the role of the jilted lover crowd, highlighting Orpheus' grief, Penelope's Ottone in this production, muses on the influence faith and resolve, or Nero's self-centered patholo of the films of Andrei Tarkovsky on Audi's con gy. Monteverdi was experimenting with a form of cept: "The absence of any real landscape, the musical expression and dramatic effect hitherto prominence of the elements-rock, water, fire unknown. How can we as spectators approach the isolation of the characters, the eternal sus these works? "Forget all you know about opera," pense, this is classic Tarkovsky. Audi's Poppea is advises Glover. "Try to imagine a time when basically about claustrophobic nothingness." opera didn't exist. This is a brand-new art form, being created before your eyes and ears." Lute player Stephen Stubbs, who has been with the production since its inception in 1993, adds, Judith Malafronte has written for Opera News, "The real coup de theatre is the moment when Schwann Inside, and Opus, and has sung the Amore defends the sleeping Poppea against the roles of Messaggiera, Penelope, Minerva, and murderous approach of Ottone by sending down Nero in various Monteverdi productions. a laser beam which turns the rock into a momen tary ball of fire." Gall agrees, "You can't go wrong All three Monteverdi operas come to BAM in April. 62 Marty Markowitz program President of the Borough Musical Prelude SRC All-City Chorale of Brooklyn Welcome Karen Brooks Hopkins President. BAM and Joseph V. Melillo Executive Producer, BAM Brooklyn Remarks Robin Flowers, Regional Vice President- Academy of Public Relations, AT&T Music Greetings Yvonne J. Graham Deputy Borough President of Brooklyn and National Anthem Daryl Doleman Medgar Evers "Lift Every Voice" Sheila Ravenel Carpenter College, City University Invocation Pastor A.R. Bernard Christian Cultural Center of New York Remarks Governor George E. Pataki present Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer The Annual Remarks Dr. Edison 0. Jackson Brooklyn Tribute to President, Medgar Evers College, City University of New York Performance Donnie McClurkin with the Dr. All-City Chorale Band Dialogue Russell Simmons with Martin Moderator Nelson George Remarks William C. Thompson, Jr. Luther New York City Comptroller Remarks Marty Markowitz King, Jr. Borough President of Brooklyn January 21, 2002 Performance Donnie McClurkin All-City Chorale Major support: Benediction Rabbi Asher Vale AT&T Manhattan Beach Jewish Center Media support: Finale Donnie McClurkin with the The New York Times All-City Chorale Community Affairs Department . s1ng Lift Every Voice (first and third verses) Lift every voice and sing, Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty; Let our rejoicing rise High as the listening skies Let it resound loud as the rolling sea. Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us, Facing the sun of our new day begun, Let us march on till victory is won. God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, Thou who has brought us thus far on the way; Thou who hast by thy might, Led us into the light, Keep us forever in the path, we pray. Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we meet thee, Lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we forget thee; Shadowed beneath thy hand, May we forever stand, True to our God, True to our native land . Words James Weldon Johnson Music Rosamond Johnson Special screenings of Clark Johnson's film, Boycott, starring Jeffrey Wright, follow the celebration at 1 & 4pm in the BAM Rose Cinemas. Jeffrey Wright will make remarks at the lpm screening. Free admission; seating is limited.