ACADEMY OF MUSIC

THE POWER PROJECf

THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF·MUSIC Harvey Lichtenstein, President and Executive Producer

, presents

BAM Opera House November 3-5, 1988 THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE A performance of music and video by and Kit Fitzgerald

Video by Kit Fitigerald Music by Peter Gordon Libretto extracted from the table of contents of The Return ofthe Native by Thomas Hardy with additional lyrics by Edwin Gordon Music performed by Catherine Fiasca (soprano) Steve Elson (woodwinds) Peter Gordon (woodwinds) Peter Ecklund (trumpet) Peter Zummo (trombone) Kenny Kosek (violin) Ronald Robboy (cello) Dennis Masuzzo (double bass) "Blue" Gene lYranny (piano) (guitar) Bill Ruyle (percussion) Mustafa Ahmed (percussion) Conducted by Peter Gordon Players in the landscape choreographed and performed by Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane Production Design Script Direction Sound Design Michael Nishball Virlana Tkacz Eric Liljestrand Associate Lighting Designer Video Engineer Video Consultant Karl E., Haas Joseph Napodano Eric Spiegel

These performances are made possible, in part, by grants from THE HENRY LUCE FOUNDATION, INC. and MEET THE COMPOSER, INC.

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F E s T v A L 9 8 8 S P 0 N S 0 RED PHLI M 0 R I OMPANIES Ie'. The ,.NEXT WAVE Festival is spoiBnd by PHILIP MORRIS COMPANIES INC. The NEXT WAVE ProU:tion and TOII'ing l11li is ...... ,.. NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS. THE ROCKEFELLER'FOUNDATION. THE FORD FOIIIDATION. THE HErilY LUCE RJUmA.. TlON.INC•• PEW CHARITABLE TRUSTS. THE WILLIAM AND FLORA HEWLm FOUNDATION, the W. ALTON J..ES ...... INC., the AT&T FOlJI)ATlON. the NATURAL HERITAGE TRUSf. THE CUYAHOGA lRUST. the MARY RAGLER CARY atARlTAlUlIIISJ. THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION. the MORGAN GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY. ROBERT W. WILSON. THE HARKlESS RIa DATIONS FOR DANCE and the STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS. MIIinI..far1heIEXTWAVEFesIiRI ...... ,&lII_ 1C.,1he CIGIA allPlllATIOI THE WIlLIAM AID MARY lIVE FOUIDATIOI, IIC., TIE BEST·PRKIS FOUIDA1IOI, TIl ARIMO G. ERPF RJID.1IIe MILL ~_ tile BMlIEXTWAVEPIIODUIBIS aua. the BMlIEXTWAVEASSOCIATfS.t1hefRlEIDS II BAM. The NEXT WAVE ProU:ers CcIlId jI1JVidesm BMI'sror.lEfelili lIIdaisollgilimsllldspoosassmm, exIiiOOns, ~ lIIlI spec8 Mltsfwdis IIograRItIrourjout the ye;r. The NEXT WAVE Asuiates, l:OIJ1IrisIIofJflDd JIOfessD*, is1he ... of the NEXT WAVE Festiv;t BAM wo'*I ike to ackrMMhIgethe tftMARD GILMAN RlI4DATION fw their saptiI til aealioo of the NEXT WAVE Ye Ardive. Previews of NEXT _VE ~ .. the WIRD FINANaAL CENTER ARTS &EVENTS PROORAM. WNYCfM is the official rail staOOn of the NEXT WAVE Festivlt The· Brooklyn Academy rl Music wishes to ..is 11Pi1i11111"~ FtnI fw its sawcrt of dis _ The BAM fdty isOWllll by the City of New Ylrk lIIlI its opnion is sqJpOrtII i1111t with 16hnIs IflJVidII through the NEW YB DTY IIPARIIBT If 121...... Joseph V. Melillo, Director, NEXT WAVE Festival THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE A performance of music and video created by Peter Gordon and Kit Fitzgerald I. Ireland II. Three Places in Poland Ill. Dorset, England IV. The Southwest and Beyond The Return ofthe Native is performed without intermission. Places visited: Ireland - Dunquin; Ballyferriter; Dingle Peninsula; County Kerry Poland-Bielsk-Podlaski; Orla; Warsaw; Krakow; Stepina; Frysztak Dorset, England-Puddletown; Upper Bockhampton; Wimborne Minster Southwest, USA-White Sands, New Mexico; Almogordo, NM; Monument Valley, Utah; Very Large Array Telescope, Soccorro, NM In memoriam Frances Hiney Fitzgerald 1898-1988 Hattie Schnall 1900-1988 Arnie Zane 1948-1988

t 8 ~ ~ 1> @ @ -a e-0 ~ u: ~" ~ PETER GORDON has performed hundreds of Center for Contemporary Music at Mills Col­ concerts internationally at venues as diverse as lege. Gordon has received grants from NEA, concert halls, nightclubs, art museums and NYSCA, the Beards Fund and was a 1988 fel­ theaters. He founded and co-directed (with David low ofthe DAAD Berlin Artists Program. Peter Van Tieghem) the Love ofLife Orchestra. He has Gordon's recordings include: Star Jaws (Lovely composed music for numerous off-Broadway Records 1978), Innocent (CBS 1986), Otello plays and music-theater works, winning an Obie (ROIR 1987), and Brooklyn (CBS 1987). award for his score for Falso Movimento's Otello. Gordon's music has also been featured in the work KIT FITZGERALD has produced a series of of leading choreographers, receiving a Bessie video works in the past ten years that have pro­ (NY Dance and Performance) Award for his foundly influenced progressive television and score for Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane's Secret . Beginning her career as a painter, she Pastures (BAM NEXT WAVE Festival 1984). quickly adopted the newly-invented Sony porta­ Last year Gordon and Fitzgerald performed pak in the mid- '70s. From 1977 to 1984 she was Speetaccolo for La MaMa's 25th anniversary sea­ artist-in-residence at the Television Laboratory son. He also has frequently worked with the at WNETII3 New York. Her approach to elec­ fashion design house WilliWear. Gordon was tronic image-making has always been similar to born in and grew up in Virginia that ofa musician creating sound. She began her and Europe. He received his BA in music from work in live video performance in 1985 with The u.c. San Diego and did graduate work at the Passion ofPassion, a collaboration with Peter Gordon. Later that year she created two more STEVEELSON's (woodwinds) playing has been performances: one with composer Ryuichi featured with some ofthe most influential musi­ Sakamoto and video artist Paul Garrin on the cal personalities in the rock, , and new music Sony JumboTRON, a 14-story high television at worlds, including David Bowie, Talking Heads, the Tsukuba Expo in Japan;. the other with the Sam and Dave, and Scott Johnson. He is co­ legendaryjazzdrummer MaxRoach at La MaMa founder of the Borneo Horns .and the Slick­ ETC. In 1987, she and Peter Gordon performed aphonics. His music hasbeen heard onradio sta~ a new work at La MaMa, Speetaccalo, which the tions WNYC and WBAI, at the Joyce Theater, Village Voice called "a candidate for the best art the Walker Art Center, the Pyramid Club, atthe ofthe '80s." She has also c9llaborated with chor­ Central Park SummerStage, St. Mark's Church eographers Twyla Tharp, Stephanie Woodard, and on video and film soundtracks. and BartCookofthe New York City Ballet. Ms. Fitzgerald is the recipient of grants from the CATHERINE FIASCA (soprano) has been a National Endowment for the Arts, the New York soloist with the Gregg Smith Singers, Steve State Council on the Arts and the Rockefeller Reich's Tehillim, and has sung Sophie in Der Foundation. Her 1986 videowork, Adelic Pen­ Rosenkavalier. She has performed Hugo Wolf guins, produced by Sony Corporation/Japan, is songs with the Feld Ballet internationally. Most available on laser disc and video cassette. Her recently, Catherine completed a reading ofTul­ video tapes are distributed by Electronic Arts worth directed by Martin Charninwith musicby Intermix and The Kitchen, NY. Christopher Berg.

MUSTAFA AHMED (percussion) has recorded KENNY KOSEK (violin) has brought his fid­ and performed in Europe and throughout the dling to the Broadway productions ofBig River, witQ Peter Gordon's Love of Life Foxfire, and The Robber Bridegroom!' He is the Orchestra, Arthur Russell, James Mason, and author ofBluegrass Fiddle Styles and the instruc­ Peter Zummo. He recently collaborated with tion tape series Learning Country Fiddle. actress Robbie McCauley and hermusician hus­ band Ed Montgomery in the premier presenta­ DENNIS MASUZZO (double bass) wasbom tion of Congo, NY, a musical drama examining in Norfolk, Virginia. He received his BM and American political influence in Africa. He is MM degrees from The Juilliard School, where presently working on his own musical autobiog­ he was a student ofDavid Walter. Hecanbeheard raphy, Son ofthe Drum Song, to be premiered in performance on Columbia, Elektra-Asylum, in 1989. Sony Digital, MMG, Grenadilla, Musical Her­ itage, CRI and Opus One Records. Heis a mem­ PETER ECKLUND (trulnpet) is from Connect­ ber ofMusical Elements and lastyear appeared icut and studied music at Yale. He plays tradi­ at BAM's NEXT WAVE Festival as part ofThe tional jazz and new music. He has played with Peter Zummo Orchestras. Gregg Allman, , and now plays with Vince Giordano Nighthawks. RONALD ROBBOY (cello) plays cello in the [Continued] San Diego Symphony and is the violinist/emcee lyrics also appear on Peter Gordon's latest album for Robboy's Jewish Orchestra. His recent work Brooklyn. Scruples ofMyrrh probed the relationship ofthe Rabbi Motel of Chernobyl to post-Zoharic BILL T. JONES (choreography), began his Guadalajara and other Iberian power centers. dance training at State University of New York at Binghamton, where later he co-founded the BILL RUYLE (percussion) has played for American Dance Asylum. Before forming Bill numerous theater, dance and new music projects, T. Jones/Arnie Zane & Company in 1982, Mr. including Music Theatre Group's The Garden of Jones choreographed and performed as a solo­ Earthly Delights and The Hunger Artist. He has ist .and duet company with his partner, Arnie played in the ensembles of Peter Zummo, A. Zane, touring nationally and internationally. He Leroy, Scott Johnson, Jon Gibson; Gretchen is the recipient of a CAPS Award, and several Langheld, Andy Tierstien, Steve Elson, the Feet­ Choreographic Fellowships from the NEA. The warmers and the Manhattan Marimba Quartet. 1985-86 Bessie was awarded to Mr. Jones and Most recently, he composed themusic for cho­ Arnie Zane for their season at the Joyce Theater. reographer Joanne Fregalette-Jansen presented at the Whitney Museum of American· Art at MICHAEL NISHBALL (production designer) Equitable Center. has been the production designer for many of Kit and Peter's concerts in Holland, Germany, NED SUBLETTE (guitar)· was born in Lub­ Italy and at La MaMa Annex. He is an associate bock, and still lives in Manhattan. He leads of The Wooster Group and was assistant to the Ned Sublette Band, an ornery group that plays designer Jim Clayburgh from 1985-87. In in honky-tonks and dives. He is a graduate ofthe 1983-84 he was the tech director for the Missouri Auction School. Shakespeare Company during an unforgettable season of shows with director Peter Sellars. "BLUE" (piano), born in Michael studies opera and rigging. He is cur­ Texas, has composed and performed avant-garde rently a project manager for Pook, Diemont & music for the past 30 years. lie has composed Ohl Inc., rigging contractors. over 60 works and has toured internationally. Most recently he has written scores for the VIRLANA TKACZ (script director) first Otrabanda Company, Bill T.. Jones ,and Arnie worked with Kit on the piece with Max Roach. Zane Pance Company, has recorded keyboards She has directed plays at La MaMa, on Theatre for 's new album and has Row, at Harvard and onthe boardwalk in Coney produced 's new opera El Afi­ Island. She is a member ofBACXs New Works cionado. His recordings are on Project and will be directing Ireneusz Iredynski's Records. This year he received a Bessie com­ An Altar To Himselfat La MaMa this spring. poser award. ER~C LILJESTRAND (sound designer) is no PETER ZUMMO (trombone), is a trombonist stranger to the NEXT WAVE Festival. He has and composer. He and his ensemble, The Peter engIneered, prepared tapes and/or played guitar Zummo Orchestras, have performed his work for the Love of Life Orchestra, The Alcheme­ since 1970 in NYC, around the US, in Europe and dians, Peter Zummo, Michael Moschen and The in Asia. Last fall he and the Orchestras appeared Birth ofthe Poet. atthe Brooklyn Academy ofMusic NEXT WAVE Festival as well as at New Music America and KARL E. HAAS (associate lighting designer) numerous other presentations. His work has been has been designing lights for theaters across the presented by art centers, galleries, theaters, and country during the past ten years, including four universities, .and commissioned by music, dance, years as Resident Designer for Actors Theatre and theater ensembles. . of Louisville. Mr. Hass was assistant lighting designer for Romance/Romance at the Helen EDWIN GORDON (additional lyrics), former Hayes and. Nixon in China at BAM and the foreigncorrespondent for the "Voice ofAmerica," Kennedy Center, and has just recently designed is a playwright and scree~writer, as well as a lyri­ Elaine's Daughter for the Philadelphia Theatre ci~t. His film credits include The Chosen. His Company. JOSEPH NAPODANO (video engineer) has worked with Kit,since 1985. He is currently chief engineer at Computer Graphics Lab"Video Cen­ ter in Westbury and hasjust returned from Korea where h~ worked on the Olympics.

ERIC SPIEGEL (video consultant) has worked in video since he was fifteen. Currently, he is a video engineer at Unitel anda serious ham radio enthusiast. STAFF FOR THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE Production stage manager Virlana Tkacz 1echnical director Michael Nishball Video associate ..Alan Yacavone Video assistant Gaute" Gunnari Location crews Rich Kirshner Alexx Gordon Martha Fitzgerald Mirek Pietrakiewicz Witek Kontorek Paula Gordon Mike Taylor Alan Yacavone Video editors Eric Spiegel Janine Melillo Rick Fiest John Zieman CREDITS Performers' clothing provided by WilliWear; Computer Video Instrumentby Fairlight Instru­ ments; video table by Watoku Ueno; video equip­ ment rental from Technisphere Corporation and Locus Communications; video projector rental from MB Productions of East Hanover, NJ Management and booking: Greg Shifrin Management 40 E. 49th Street, Suite 602 New York, NY 10017 (212) 755-4732 telex' 490009477 gsm-ul We gratefully acknowledge funding ~eceived from the National Endowment for the·Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. Special thanks to Ellen Stewart, Wickham Boyle and all at La MaMa ETC, Christopher Berg, Performing Arts. Services, On-Line Program, Standby Program, MediaAlliance, Aer Lingus, Mickery Theater, Phillip Baldwin, Ellen McCartney, David Cunningham, Carol Branden­ burg, Mark Gordon, Robert Fripp, Larry Shirley, Carol Chiani, Paul Garrin, Michael Callen, John Cipoletti, Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst.