ikue mori at stanford ccrma tonight

Posted on May 10, 2012 by markweiss86

ikue mori at stanford ccrma tonight

i may have her confused with Cheetoh Molly, but it’s cool.

http://events.stanford.edu/events/318/31849/

edit to add: meanwhile I was gonna post something about comparing the Freight and Salvage schedule arrived yesterday in my box with the CalPerformances.

And: you know that dream you have, that I have, where you realize you are in a class but have forgot to go for the first six week of class? I just remembered I am the publicist for Beth Custer show coming up in two weeks, May 25, at Montalvo. To wit:

BETH CUSTER ENSEMBLE PRESENTS “MY GRANDMOTHER”

Beth Custer Ensemble
BETH CUSTER ENSEMBLE
Photo by Anne Hamersky

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Friday, May 25, 2012, 8:30 p.m.

VENUE: Lilian Fontaine Garden Theatre

My Grandmother is a silent film made in 1929 by Soviet Georgian director Kote Mikaberidze and banned by the Soviet regime for 40 years. Beth Custer has coupled this amazing film with her own score, a quick-paced pastiche of American jazz and blues, contemporary classical, and world folk music. Forgotten for a half-century, Kote Mikaberidze’s film is a delightful example of the Soviet Eccentric Cinema movement as well as an irreverent satire of the then still-young Soviet State system. Noted for its anarchic styles—which include stop-motion, puppetry, exaggerated camera angles, animation and constructivist sets—the film unspools the foibles and follies that abound when a Georgian paper pusher, modeled after American silent comic Harold Lloyd, loses his job.

The Beth Custer Ensemble features guitarist David James (The Coup, Spearhead), drummer Jan Jackson (Will Bernard Motherbug), bassist Vicky Grossi (Graham Connah), trumpeter Chris Grady (Tom Waits, Grassy Knoll), Jessica Ivry on cello (Real Vocal String Quartet), and Dina Maccabee on violin (Vienna Teng), and Beth Custer (Eighty Mile Beach, Club Foot Orchestra). Freddi Price (Rube Waddell, Extra Action Marching Band) narrates the film.

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TICKET PRICES : $20 General Admission | $15 Members | $8 Students with ID

Or call the Box Office at (408) 961-5858 10am-4pm Mon-Fri.
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edit to add, July 13, or two months later: the Beth Custer show was a hit, if a little under-attended; I missed Ikue Mori at CCRMA — sometimes even going one mile to see great world class music is somehow beyond me. Meanwhile, I thought I saw the name Ikue Mori as part of the band that will perform Coltrane’s “Ascension” at a big jazz festival in Guelph, with ROVA. It looks like she is part of a stellar group of 12 who will take on that formidable composition – it deserves its own plug herein.

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Mark Weiss, founder of Plastic Alto blog, is a concert promoter and artist manager in Palo Alto, as Earthwise Productions, with background as journalist, advertising copywriter, book store returns desk, college radio producer, city council and commissions candidate, high school basketball player, and blogger; he also sang in local choir, fronts an Allen Ginsberg tribute Beat Hotel Rm 32 Reads 'Howl' and owns a couple musical instruments he cannot play
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