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Home , Dancing in Your Head, Don Cherry (trumpeter), Ornette Coleman, Skies of America, Sound Grammar, Tone Dialing

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July 16 Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse : Tomorrow is the Question All Compositions by Ornette Coleman Trinity (Fantasy for Solo Violin) (1986) Violin Olivia De Prato Forms and Sounds (1967) Flute Tim Munro Oboe Jacqueline Leclair Clarinet Adrián Sandí Bassoon Max Grube French Horn Tim McCarthy In Honor of NASA and the Planetary Soloists (1986) Oboe Soloist Jacqueline Leclair Violin Olivia De Prato, Lauren Cauley Viola Victor Lowrie Cello Lauren Radnofsky The Sacred Mind of Johnny Dolphin (1984) Guest Soloist Seneca Black Violin Olivia De Prato, Jennifer Choi, Lauren Cauley, Molly Germer Viola Victor Lowrie, Caleb Burhans Cello Lauren Radnofsky, Mariel Roberts Greg Chudzik Timpani Carson Moody Drums Ted Poor

Ensemble Signal Conductor Brad Lubman

Approximate performance time: 1 hour and 15 minutes, with no intermission

This performance is made possible in part by the Josie Robertson Fund for Lincoln Center. Public support for Festival 2017 is provided by the Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL 2017 ORNETTE COLEMAN: TOMORROW IS THE QUESTION

A Note on the Program formed by the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Kurt Masur. And there was built the rocket ship that Ornette’s Prime Time band with special lifted humans off the earth. We went from guests and Laurie Anderson. caves, ocean surfaces, jungles, prairies, and deserts to outer space. This trip Two decades later, when Lincoln Center Festival wanted to honor Ornette again, it enabled us to provide definitive answers to was bittersweet, as he is no longer with us. some cosmic questions. Yes, the earth is But his legacy lives on, and I was pleased to round. No, the sun does not revolve around take advantage of the opportunity to hear us. And, yes, the speed of Pop’s horn was his music performed by long-time band proof that light does indeed bend. members, special guests, and many friends. Twenty years after Louis, Naked Lunch —a 1991 film and soundtrack piloted that rocket ship to a meeting with —was one of the rare times that God. Their conversation was so profound it Ornette played over someone else’s music. resulted in a Big Bang, creating Universes Inspired by William Burroughs’ namesake and Galaxies, places unconceived of novel, ’s film adaptation, before, ideas unconceived of before, and ’s score, Ornette con - energy unconceived of before. It was jured up his own Harmolodic Interzone. The human inspiration blazing away at its high - current performance will feature an orches - est level. tra and a quartet comprising Henry Threadgill, Ravi Coltrane, , Less than 20 years after Bird, Ornette and yours truly. Coleman took that rocket ship and returned from beyond the known galaxy with the Ornette: Made in America is an experimen - insight that man and even life itself are but tal art piece by filmmaker . ideas. The free search for ideas and resolu - Begun in 1968 and finished in 1983, it tions had loosened the moorings of con - starts off with Ornette receiving the keys to ventional Gravity. Ideas can take many the city of Ft. Worth, Texas, his hometown. forms. Man is not the only life form. The Clutching the keys, he says wryly, “I’m other life form is Freedom. Other energies gonna let all the dogs out.” “Edgy” is an flowed in, and so did other ways of being. overused term when it comes to art, but Ornette was hailed as a hero by some, this film qualifies. screamed at as a fraud by others. Ornette’s Prime Time band first took shape In 1997 Lincoln Center Festival asked in 1975, when Ornette and four young Ornette what he would like to present for musicians were stranded in Paris for six its second summer season. Ornette chose months after a European tour fell through. to design a career retrospective. There was The result was the seminal album Dancing his Original Quartet with , in Your Head . A sonic breakthrough, there , and , which had has been nothing that funky and freely not performed together for many years. (As improvised before or since. it happened, Don was dealing with a health issue and Ornette invited Wallace Roney to In 1962 Ornette, fed up with his music fill in on trumpet.) There were two nights of being relegated to basement clubs, Ornette’s symphony, , per - rented Town Hall and produced his own LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL 2017 ORNETTE COLEMAN: TOMORROW IS THE QUESTION

concert. When he recounted the story in was full of his trademark musical theory later years, he noted, “On that day in New , leading to the creation of his York City, there was a snowstorm, a sub - band Prime Time, which released the land - way strike, and a newspaper strike. But I mark album in 1977. didn’t lose any money.” The program on Coleman defined Harmolodics as “the use that occasion included a performance of of the physical and the mental of one’s own Ornette’s first chamber work, which logic made into an expression of sound to sparked his interest in classical composi - bring about the musical sensation of unison tion. On July 16 a selection of Ornette’s executed by a single person or with a chamber works will be heard. group.” In the next decade, more surprises included trendsetting Song X with As with all of his work, my father continually guitarist (1986); looked ahead: “Tomorrow’s the Question.” featuring the late leader (1988); and (1995); as —Denardo Coleman well as music performed on the sound - tracks for the films Naked Lunch (1991) and Philadelphia (1993). In 1994 Ornette About the Artists Coleman was named a MacArthur Fellow and in 1997 was inducted into the American Ornette Coleman (Composer) taught the Academy of Arts and Letters. That same world new ways of hearing music since he year, Lincoln Center Festival presented burst onto the New York jazz scene with his Ornette Coleman: ? Civilization , with perfor - legendary engagement at the Five Spot. In mances of Coleman’s symphony Skies of 1958, with his debut album Something America by Kurt Masur and the New York Else, it was clear that Coleman had ushered Philharmonic; an evening with Coleman, in a new era in jazz history. With his core Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins, and special musical partners—trumpeter Don Cherry, guests; and Coleman: Tone Dialing with double bass player Charlie Haden, and Coleman’s band Prime Time, Lou Reed, drummer Billy Higgins—their music, freed Laurie Anderson, and Fireplay. In 2007 his from the prevailing conventions of harmony, recording was awarded rhythm, and melody, transformed the art the . He received a form. From 1959 (which saw the release of Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and his seminal albums Tomorrow Is the his third album The Shape of Jazz to Come Question! and The Shape of Jazz to Come ) was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and through the 1960s, Coleman released in 2015, the same year he passed away. more than 20 critically acclaimed albums on the Atlantic and Blue Note labels, most of Olivia De Prato (Violin) is internationally which are now recognized as jazz classics. recognized as a soloist as well as a chamber In the classical realm, Coleman studied musician, described as “flamboyant…con - trumpet and violin, expanding the scope of vincing” ( New York Times ) and an “enchant - his repertoire to include string quartets, ing violinist” ( Messaggero Veneto , Italy). woodwind quintets, and orchestral works. She has quickly established herself as a Coleman’s symphony Skies of America, passionate performer of contemporary and recorded by the Philharmonic improvised music, breaking boundaries of Orchestra, was released in 1972. After his the traditional violin repertoire and regularly journeys to villages in Morocco and Nigeria performing in Europe, South America, in the 1970s, he created a new sound that China, and the United States. Her chamber LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL 2017 ORNETTE COLEMAN: TOMORROW IS THE QUESTION

music activities include appearances at the Roger Reynolds’ Summer Island . Luciano New York Philharmonic Biennial, Lucerne Berio’s Sequenza VIIa (Supplementary Festival, Ensemble Modern Festival, June in Edition by Jacqueline Leclair) is published Buffalo, Ojai Festival, Darmstadt New by Universal Edition, Vienna, and her Music Festival, Shanghai New Music recording of the piece is on Festival, and Aldeburgh Festival. She is co- Records collection of all Berio Sequenzi founder and first violinist of the Mivos and other solo works. String Quartet and a member of Ensemble Signal. She has recorded on New Seneca Black (Trumpet) grew up in a musi - Amsterdam Records, Tzadik, Carrier, cal family in Pennsylvania. After graduating Sunnyside, Mode, Cantaloupe, Porter from Miami’s New World School of the Records, and Harmonia Mundi. She studied Arts, he moved to New York to attend the at the University of Music and Arts in Manhattan School of Music, where he Vienna and holds degrees from the enrolled in the jazz program with a full Eastman School of Music and Manhattan scholarship. After three semesters, he was School of Music. recruited as lead trumpet in the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. He toured and Jacqueline Leclair (Oboe), associate pro - recorded with and com - fessor of oboe and chair of the woodwind pany from 1997 to 2004, when he departed area at McGill University’s Schulich School to pursue a solo/freelance career and has of Music, is also a member of the ensem - since been a fixture in the New York music bles Signal and Sequitur, and frequently scene. He is a current member of the performs solo and chamber music concerts Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra, internationally. She was a member of Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro- Orchestra, Alarm Will Sound from 2003 to 2011, was Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, Kyle on the faculty of Manhattan School of Saulnier’s Awakening Orchestra, Music, and was assistant professor of Manhattan Jazz Orchestra, and Shui. oboe at Bowling Green State University in He has performed with Lincoln Center Ohio from 2007 to 2012. Summer festivals Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, Chico O’Farrill’s for which she has served as faculty and/or Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra, Duke Ellington performer include Lincoln Center Festival, Orchestra, Artie Shaw Orchestra, Tommy Chamber Music Conference at Bennington Dorsey Orchestra, Andrew D’Angelo’s College, June in Buffalo, Chamber Music DNA, Bill Mobley Big Band, Hector Festival of Aguascalientes, East/West Martignon Bande Grande, and Cab Festival, and the Sebago Music Festival. Calloway Orchestra. He also performed She also specializes in the study and perfor - under the baton of , Ron Carter, mance of new music, premiering many John Lewis, Seiji Ozawa, Daniel works and regularly presenting classes in Barenboim, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Kurt contemporary music and its techniques at Masur. He has performed with Bobby UCLA, Eastman School of Music, Brigham Short, Diana Krall, Jay Z, Bernie Williams, Young University, North Carolina School for Southside Johnny, Jennifer Holliday, Holt the Arts, and University of at San McCallany, Joe Piscopo, and Christina Diego. She has recorded for Nonesuch, Aguilera. Three recordings he played lead CRI, Koch, Deutsche Grammophon, and trumpet on won Grammy Awards. He has CBS Masterworks, receiving critical been an active clinician, having gained expo - acclaim for her premiere recording of sure through Lincoln Center Education. He LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL 2017 ORNETTE COLEMAN: TOMORROW IS THE QUESTION performs with his own groups around New Ensemble Signal has performed over 100 York, performs solo concerts, and gives concerts, given the New York, U.S., or workshops around the world. world premieres of over 20 works, and co- produced 8 recordings since its 2008 Brad Lubman (Conductor), founding co- debut. Founded by co-artistic/executive artistic and music director of Ensemble director Lauren Radnofsky and co-artistic Signal, appeared at Lincoln Center Festival director/music director Brad Lubman, last summer for Reich/Reverberations, in Signal performed in Reich/Reverberations 2013 to conduct Monkey: Journey to the at last summer’s Lincoln Center Festival West, and in 1999 as part of Reich: Four . and Monkey: Journey to the West at the He has led major orchestras including the festival in 2013. The ensemble, a super - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, group of independent artists from the mod - Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen ern music scene, is flexible in size and Rundfunks, Philharmonic, instrumentation—everything from solo to NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, Dresden large contemporary ensemble in any possi - Philharmonic, DSO Berlin, RSO Stuttgart, ble combination—enabling it to meet the WDR Symphony Cologne, Orchestre ever-changing demands on 21st-century Philharmonique de Radio France, Finnish performing ensembles. Its programming Radio Symphony, the Netherlands Radio ranges from minimalism or pop-influenced Chamber Philharmonic, and the National to the iconoclastic European avant-garde. Symphony. He has also worked with many Signal has worked with artists and com - contemporary music ensembles, including posers including , Helmut Ensemble Modern, London Sinfonietta, Lachenmann, Irvine Arditti, Kristian Klangforum Wien, Musik Fabrik, ASKO Bezuidenhout, Michael Gordon, David Ensemble, Ensemble Resonanz, and Steve Lang, Julia Wolfe, Oliver Knussen, Hilda Reich and Musicians. Lubman has con - Paredes, and Charles Wuorinen. ducted at new-music festivals across Educational activities include community Europe, including those in Lucerne, performances and educational outreach, as Salzburg, Berlin, Huddersfield, Paris, well as workshops with emerging com - Cologne, Frankfurt, and Oslo. Lubman has posers at the June in Buffalo Festival, conducted numerous world premieres. where Signal is a resident ensemble. Among these are Steve Reich’s Three Tales, Daniel Variations, Radio Rewrite, and Ensemble Signal Acknowledgments Variations for Vibes, Pianos and Strings . Project Management Lauren Radnofsky, His own music has been performed in the Tiffany Valvo U.S. and Europe, and can be heard on his Project Assistance Erin Lensing Tzadik CD, Insomniac . He is on the faculty at the Eastman School of Music and the Summer Institute. LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL 2017 ORNETTE COLEMAN: TOMORROW IS THE QUESTION

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