Mavis Staples

11-04 Staples_GP 10/22/14 3:14 PM Page 1 Tuesday Evening, November 4, 2014, at 7:30 One True Vine Mavis Staples Yvonne Staples , Vocals Rick Holmstrom , Guitar Stephen Hodges , Drums Jeff Turmes , Bass Guitar Vicki Randle , Vocals, Percussion Donny Gerrard , Vocals This program is approximately one hour and 15 minutes long and will be performed without intermission. Please join us in the Alice Tully Hall lobby for a White Light Lounge immediately following the performance. The White Light Festival is sponsored by Time Warner Inc. This performance is made possible in part by the Josie Robertson Fund for Lincoln Center. Alice Tully Hall , Starr Theater Please make certain all your electronic devices Adrienne Arsht Stage are switched off. WhiteLightFestival.org 11-04 Staples_GP 10/22/14 3:14 PM Page 2 Additional support is provided by The Fan Fox and Upcoming White Light Festival Events: Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc. Sunday, November 9, at 5:00 in Avery Fisher Hall Endowment support is provided by the American Cathedrals of Sound Express Cultural Preservation Fund. Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig Riccardo Chailly , Conductor MetLife is the National Sponsor of Lincoln Center. BACH : Orchestral Suite No. 4 BRUCKNER : Symphony No. 7 Movado is an Official Sponsor of Lincoln Center. Pre-concert lecture by Scott Burnham at 3:45 in the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse United Airlines is the Official Airline of Lincoln Center. Tuesday Evening, November 11, at 7:30 in Alice Tully Hall WABC-TV is the Official Broadcast Partner of Winterreise (New York premiere) Lincoln Center. William Kentridge , Concept and Video Matthias Goerne , Baritone William Hill Estate Winery is the Official Wine of Markus Hinterhäuser , Piano Lincoln Center. SCHUBERT: Winterreise Pre-concert lecture by Christopher H. Gibbs at 6:15 Artist Catering is provided by Zabar’s and in the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse Zabars.com. For tickets, call (212) 721-6500 or visit WhiteLightFestival.org. Call the Lincoln Center Info Request Line at (212) 875-5766 to learn about pro - gram cancellations or to request a White Light Festival brochure. Visit WhiteLightFestival.org for more information relating to the Festival’s programs. Join the conversation: #LCWhiteLight We would like to remind you that the sound of coughing and rustling paper might distract the performers and your fellow audience members. In consideration of the performing artists and members of the audience, those who must leave before the end of the performance are asked to do so between pieces. The taking of photographs and the use of recording equipment are not allowed in the building. 11-04 Staples_GP 10/22/14 3:14 PM Page 3 Illumination Mindful by Mary Oliver Every day I see or I hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light. It is what I was born for— to look, to listen, to lose myself inside this soft world— to instruct myself over and over in joy, and acclamation. Nor am I talking about the exceptional, the fearful, the dreadful, the very extravagant— but of the ordinary, the common, the very drab, the daily presentations. Oh, good scholar, I say to myself, how can you help WhiteLightFestival.org 11-04 Staples_GP 10/22/14 3:14 PM Page 4 Illumination but grow wise with such teachings as these— the untrimmable light of the world, the ocean’s shine, the prayers that are made out of grass? —“Mindful” from WHY I WAKE EARLY—New Poems by Mary Oliver. Published by Beacon Press Boston, copyright © 2004 by Mary Oliver. Reprinted by permission of The Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency Inc. For poetry comments and suggestions, please write to [email protected]. 11-04 Staples_GP 10/22/14 3:14 PM Page 5 Meet the Artists a moving tribute to Levon Helm alongside Elton John, Mumford & Sons, Brittany Howard (The Alabama Shakes), T Bone Burnett, and Zac Brown. Please turn to page 64 for an article about Mavis Staples. Mavis Staples Soul and gospel legend, Rock and Roll Hall Yvonne Staples of Famer, and civil rights icon Mavis From 1969 until patriarch Roebuck “Pops” Staples released her second collaboration Staples’s death in 2000, the Staple Singers with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, One True Vine , in were configured as a quartet, with Pops 2013 with ANTI-Records. The follow-up to and Mavis joined by Cleotha and Yvonne 2010’s Grammy Award–winning You Are Staples (vocals). The clan’s musical signa - Not Alone , One True Vine finds Ms. Staples tures were Pops’s gospel-based songwrit - traversing darker terrain with stark, ing, reedy tenor, and bluesy guitar; Mavis’s acoustic arrangements and the most hon - rich, raspy vocals and precise phrasing; and est, unvarnished vocal performances of her the supple, ringing harmonies of Cleotha career. Featuring ten tracks—including and Yvonne, who also acted as the band’s new compositions written specifically for manager. The Staple Singers cracked the Ms. Staples by Tweedy and Nick Lowe— Top 40 eight times from 1971 to 1975, with the record is the most personal and emo - two singles reaching No. 1: the funky, tional statement from Ms. Staples yet. inspirational “I’ll Take You There,” which was the highlight of their tenure on Stax From album opener “Holy Ghost,” written Records, and “Let’s Do It Again,” a film- by Low’s Alan Sparhawk, to the new soundtrack song recorded for Curtis Tweedy composition “Jesus Wept,” the Mayfield’s Curtom label. In 1976 the Staple gravity in Ms. Staples’s voice is transfix - Singers collaborated with The Band on the ing—heavy with burdens but blessed with song “The Weight” for the rock group’s the promise of true redemption that shines film The Last Waltz , and the Staples had a through on Nick Lowe’s deft and driving hit in 1984 with a cover of the Talking “Far Celestial Shore,” Funkadelic’s “Can Heads’ “Slippery People.” Along with her You Get to That,” and Pops Staples’s uplift - father, sisters, and brother, Pervis, Ms. ing “I Like the Things About Me.” Staples is a 1999 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and the recipient of a 2005 Ms. Staples’s last collaboration with Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Tweedy, You Are Not Alone , earned her the highest Billboard chart debut of her more Rick Holmstrom than 50-year career, her first Grammy Born in Fairbanks, Alaska, Rick Holmstrom Award, and universal critical acclaim. Ms. (guitar) has been on the road for 24 years Staples performed at the Kennedy Center touring and/or recording with such artists Honors, took the stage at Jon Stewart and as Booker T., Billy Boy Arnold, R.L. Stephen Colbert’s massive televised Rally Burnside, Smokey Wilson, John Medeski, to Restore Sanity and/or Fear , and per - and Chuck Prophet. He has released five formed at the NAACP Image Awards and Rick Holmstrom Band albums to date. Mr. 2011 VH1 Divas broadcast. She also pro - Holmstrom’s current release, Cruel Sunrise vided one of the most indelible moments (M.C. Records), featuring Mavis Staples of the 2013 Grammy Awards telecast with on two songs, was the No. 1 album on WhiteLightFestival.org 11-04 Staples_GP 10/22/14 3:33 PM Page 6 B.B. King’s Bluesville program on SiriusXM father was accompanying Billie Holiday, in satellite radio. Since joining Ms. Staples Oakland in the 1950s. When she was nine, in 2007, Mr. Holmstrom has played on Ms. Randle found a discarded Silvertone Mavis Staples Live: Hope at the Hideout guitar and taught herself to play Beatles and the Grammy Award–winning You Are songs. Becoming a multifaceted, multi- Not Alone . talented, multi-genre singer/guitarist/bass player/drummer followed, and the result is Stephen Hodges a four-decade career playing with the Stephen Hodges (drums) has recorded and biggest names in music. toured with Tom Waits, the Smashing Pumpkins, and David Lynch, among oth - As lead singer and percussionist with the ers, and he composed the score for the Tonight Show Band for 18 years, Ms. play Exit the King . He has been Mavis Randle performed with Elton John, Al Staples’s touring drummer since 2007, and Green, Garth Brooks, and Paul McCartney. he played on Mavis Staples Live: Hope at She has toured with Kenny Loggins, Lionel the Hideout and the Grammy Award– Richie, George Benson, Wayne Shorter, Dr. winning You Are Not Alone . John, and Laura Nyro; performed with Mickey Hart, Joan Baez, and Bonnie Raitt; Jeff Turmes recorded lead vocals and/or duets with A multi-instrumentalist and award-winning Benson, Herbie Hancock, and the Turtle songwriter, Jeff Turmes (bass guitar) has Island String Quartet; and provided back - recorded with artists as significant and ground vocals, guitar, and percussion for diverse as Richard Thompson, R.L. Burnside, Aretha Franklin, Pete Escovedo, Pharoah Norah Jones, and Clarence “Gatemouth” Sanders, Taj Mahal, Todd Rundgren, and Brown. He has performed on bass, guitar, Stephen Bruton. saxophone, and other instruments with artists including Tom Waits, Peter Case, Billy Ms. Randle has recorded countless ads Boy Arnold, and the Fabulous Thunderbirds, and dozens of film soundtracks, and she and he has released four albums of his own has performed on almost every continent. compositions, demonstrating his range as a She has maintained her passion as a writer, producer, arranger, and singer. Since singer-songwriter, continuing to perform 2007 he has had the joy of touring with solo with guitar and with her band. Her Mavis Staples, and he played on Mavis albums include Sleep City . Staples Live: Hope at the Hideout and the Grammy Award–winning You Are Not Donny Gerrard Alone .

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