BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC

Lepercq Space

November 17-20, 1983

MOLISSA FENLEY AND DANCERS

HEMISPHERES

(World Premiere)

Melissa Fenley

Silvia Martins Scottie Mirviss

Choreography: Melissa Fenley Music: Visual Element: Francesco Clemente Costumes: from Rei Kawakubo's Comme des Gar>ons Spring/Summer '83 Collection Lighting Design: Kathryn Reid Sound Consultant: Earl Howard Musical Assistant to ~1s. Fenley: Cheri Skurdall Conducted by Dwight Andrews & performed by Episteme

Musical Overture CE?U AT THE CROSSROADS)

BEFORE BORDERS (LITTLE RICHARD'S NEW WAVE)

TELEPATHY (E~U: THE TRICKSTER)

--intermission--

EIDETIC BODY (A WALK THROUGH THE SHADOW)

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PROJECTION (CLONETICS )

HEMISPHERES was commissioned in part by BAM'S NEXT WAVE Production and Touring Fund. HEMISPHERES has been possible in part by a National Endowment for the Arts Choreographer's Fellowship 1983 and a grant from the Jerome Foundation. Anthony Davis' participation is made possible in part through a grant from Meet the Composer. Melissa Fenley wishes to dedicate the dance HEMISPHERES to Eileen Alison Fenley. She would also like to thank the staffs of Gramavision Records, Comme des Garsons, Sperone Westwater Gallery, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. HEMISPHERES is available on Gramavision Records and Tapes (GR 8303). Francesco Clemente drawings: Design and production consultant: Anthony McCall Associates, N.Y. The visual element by Francesco Clemente has been possibl~ by the support of Anthony McCall Associates and a donor who wishes to remain anonymous. (over) EPISTEME:

John Purcell - piccolo, flute, oboe, clarinet, soprano saxophone J.D. Parran- clarinet, contrabass clarinet Leo Smith - trumpet, steelophone, percussion George Lewis - trombone Shem Guibbory - violin Eugene Friesen - cello Rick Rozie - bass Jay Hoggard - vibraphone, marimba Pheeroan akLaff- drums, percussion Anthony Davis - piano

JAY HOGGARD has been heralded for several years by for several years by the critics and his peers as one of today's hottest young musicians. Though only 28 years old, Jay has already been voted the Number One vibraphonist deserving wider recognition for three consecutive years in downbeat magazine's Annual Internationl Jazz Critic's Poll.

Born September 28, 1954 in Washington D.C., Jay was raised in Mount Vernon, New York . His father is a prominent bishop in the A. M.E. (African Methodist Episcopal) Zion Church, one of the oldest Black independent denominations in America.

Jay had taken piano lessons from his mother and was seriously studying saxophone. At age 16, however, he switched to vibraphone.

Jay attended Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, and majored in ethnomusicology. Under the tutelage of teachers , Bill Baron, , Ed Blackwell , and others, Jay became interested in the music of various cultures. In his j unior year, Jay traveled to Tanzania on a Wesleyan grant to study East African xy lophone music .

After graduating from college and teaching high school with pianist Anthony Davis in New Haven, Connecticut, he returned to New York where he became a leading artist in the New Music movement .

Jay was recently honored by the New York State Council on the Arts with a Creative Artists Public Service fellowship . The award will be used to writ e an extended composition for percussion. New , with the release of LOVE SURVIVES , his first album for the Gramavision label, Jay has reached a new plateau in his distinguished career .

Please note : Further artist biographies are on page 13 of the program booklet .