Music
Documerica
World Premiere
Oct 2—Oct 5, 2013
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RUN TIME: Approx 1hr 20min
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: $14—36
FULL PRICE TICKETS:
$20—45
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October 2013
Wednesday October 02, 2013
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Part of
2013 Next Wave Festival
and Next Wave Music
ETHEL
Directed by Steve Cosson
Music by Mary Ellen Childs, Ralph Farris, Kip Jones, Dorothy
Lawson, Ulysses Owens Jr., Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate, Tema
Watstein, and James Kimo Williams
“…vital and brilliant.”
—The New Yorker
In 1971, a hundred hired-gun photographers fanned out across
the country as part of the EPA’s Project Documerica to capture
America’s sometimes fabled, sometimes fraught relationship to its
land. In Documerica, the adventurous string quartet ETHEL
lends rich new dimension to the images from that project, with help
from projection artist Deborah Johnson (Planetarium, 2013
Winter/Spring Season) and eight wildly disparate composers.
New music by acclaimed contemporary composer Mary Ellen Childs, Grammy Award-winning jazz drummer Ulysses Owens Jr. (Christian McBride Big Band), Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate from the Chickasaw Nation, blues maven James Kimo Williams, and members of ETHEL complements those transfigured images from the EPA archive in this moving meditation on America’s big skies, ghost towns, purple mountain majesties, and pulses of the urban environment.
New music by acclaimed contemporary composer Mary Ellen Childs, Grammy Award-winning jazz drummer Ulysses Owens Jr. (Christian McBride Big Band), Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate from the Chickasaw Nation, blues maven James Kimo Williams, and members of ETHEL complements those transfigured images from the EPA archive in this moving meditation on America’s big skies, ghost towns, purple mountain majesties, and pulses of the urban environment.
Projection design by Deborah Johnson
Set design by Adrian W. Jones
Lighting design by Christopher Kuhl
Sound design by Dave Cook
Concept by MZ Smith
BAM 2013 MUSIC SPONSOR
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2013 Next Wave Festival
Sep 17—Dec 22, 2013
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Sep 17—Dec 22, 2013
The 2013 Next Wave Festival showcases the very best in contemporary performance, plus artist talks, storytelling, visual art, and film.
Artists
ETHEL
The pioneering post-classical string quartet ETHEL was founded in 1998.
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View photos from the EPA’s Project Documerica