Title
Date(s) of Performance
5/7/2011 - 5/8/2011
Directed by
Herschel Garfein
Created by
Music by Fred Hersch
Performers/Artists
Speaker/Singer: Michael Winther (Fred,Scott,and others); The Fred Hersch Ensemble: Ralph Alessi, trumpet/flugelhorn; Mike Christianson, trombone; Steven Lugerner, oboe,clarinet,alto sax,bass clarinet; AdamKolker, flute,clarinet,tenor sax; Joyce Hammann, violin; Laura Seaton, violin; Ron Lawrence, viola; Dave Eggar, cello; John Hébert, bass; John Hollenbeck, drums/percussion; Fred Hersch, piano; Gregg Kallor, conductor
Summary
Does one sleep FRED HERSCH perchance to dream? In a production shaped by simultaneous realities (hospital and coma), the dreamiest jazz composer of our time, Fred Hersch, will debut a full-length work for 11 instruments (trumpet, trombone, clarinet/alto sax/bass clarinet, tenor sax/flute, string quartet, piano, bass, drums/percussion) as well as a speaker/singer. Inspired by the dreams he remembers after two months in a coma in 2008, Fred Hersch (Leaves of Grass), in collaboration with Herschel Garfein (Elmer Gantry librettist) and Sarah Wickliffe, will reveal the dark matter of his own life—and ours, too.
Disciplines
Theatre and Performance Studies
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