NEWS CONTACT: fllen Ldmpert FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Susan Spier October 24, 1984 (718) 636-4123 RICHARD LANDRY PERFORMS IN BAM'S NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL ON NOVE~1BER 10, 1984 Saxophonist and composer RICHARD LANDRY will make his first New York solo appearance in over two years in the Brooklyn Academy of Music's NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL on November 10, 1984. Joining Richard Landry in the second half of his concert is guest percussionist David Van Tieghem. Born and raised in Cecilia, Louisiana, where he still resides, Richard Landry's roots are in Cajun music, rural southern rhythm and blues, and jazz. His concerts are distinguished by virtuosic improvisations on the uncharted range of the tenor saxophone, processed through a quadrophonic delay system which allows him to form his own quintet. He has also performed and recorded with Steve Reich and Musicians, the Philip Glass Ensemble, Talking Heads, and Laurie Anderson, while presenting more than two hundred solo concerts throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. Richard Landry's concert for tenor saxophone will be held in BAM's Carey Playhouse on Saturday, November 10, at 8:00pm. Tickets are $15.00 . The NEXT WAVE Production and Touring Fund is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Pew Memorial Trust, AT&T, WilliWear Ltd., Warner Communications Inc. , the Educational Foundation of America, the CIGNA Corporation, the Best Products Foundation, Abraham & Straus/Federated Department Stores Foundation, Inc. and the BAM NEXT WAVE Producers Council. Additional funds for the NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL are provided by the New York State Council on the Arts, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company, Meet the Composer, Inc., Philip Morris Inc., and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. WNYC-FM 94 is the official radio station of the NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL. The Brooklyn Academy of Music NEXT WAVE Video Archive for the Contemporary Performing Arts has been established and funded by the Howard Gilman Foundation. For further information call the Brooklyn Academy of Music at (718) 636-4100. .