RAT NIGHT VISION concert this Friday and Saturday

[brad rothbart <scrdchao@nni.com>]

If I was  only allowed to see one piece of theatre in NYC this year, this
would have to be the one...
Just figured I'f let people know....


brad


>From: Newdram@aol.com
>Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 18:13:18 EDT
>Subject: NIGHT VISION concert this Friday and Saturday
>To: Ruthie1976@aol.com
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>NIGHT VISION:
>A THIRD TO FIRST WORLD VAMPYRE OPERA
>Concept/Music by Fred Ho
>Libretto/Lyrics by Ruth Margraff
>Directed by Tim Maner
>Dramaturgy by Celise Kalke
>
>with Dr. Sa'di Al-Hadithi, Daphne Gaines, Craig Wedren, Greg Purnhagen,
>Culver Casson, Kim Gambino, Funda Duyal, Keith Adkins, Kaipo Schwab, Tom
>Meglioranza, Asa Somers and a live 8-piece brass orchestra conducted by Fred
>Ho.
>
>this Friday, October 1st and this Saturday, October 2nd only
>at 7:30 p.m. each night,
>at Cooper Union's Great Hall at Astor Place
>(East 7th Street at Third Avenue) in New York City
>Call Ticket Central at (212) 279-4200 or
>the World Wide Web through Ticket Web (www.ticketweb.com).
>
>It's the year 2000 and she's blowing away the pop music industry with her
>voice.  But nobody knows she sings with two hearts in her throat.  First
>world heart - to get the club kids lusting for her autorgraph, third world
>heart -for revengeÖInspired by Hong Kong action cinema, Iraqi desert songs,
>Crusader art and Times Square erotica, NIGHT VISION's millennial female
>vampyre, Ajlinna id-Dibayih is a bloodcurdling transfusion of Fred Ho's
>operatic jazz and Ruth Margraff's neo-biblical libretti.
>
>The 1999 Cooper Arts inaugural season and producer Howard Stokar present
>NIGHT VISION: A THIRD TO FIRST WORLD VAMPYRE OPERA by Fred Ho and Ruth
>Margraff, directed by Tim Maner, featuring 8 singers and a live 8-piece brass
>orchestra and especially featuring the Iraqi desert songs of singer/archivist
>Dr. Sa'di Al-Hadithi who is visiting from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emerites for
>this world premiere concert.
>
>Composer Fred Ho is a Chinese-American baritone saxophonist, composer,
>writer, producer, activist and leader of the Afro Asian Music Ensemble and
>the Monkey Orchestra.  He conceived and developed NIGHT VISION with Ruth
>Margraff on commission from the Salvage Vanguard Theater of Austin, Texas and
>the 1999 Rockefeller Foundation Multi-Arts Projects.  Ho's recordings, which
>include WARRIOR SISTERS and MONKEY: PARTS ONE AND TWO are distributed through
>KOCH International.
>
>Librettist and lyricist Ruth Margraff is a founding member of HERE's "Opera
>Project" in New York and her work has been developed and produced in New
>York, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Austin, Dallas, etc.  She has received a
>Jerome Fellowship, a McKnight Advancement Grant, a NYSCA Individual Artists'
>grant, an artist residency at the Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio, Italy with
>Dr. Sa'di Al-Hadithi and composer Joshua Fried and a 1999-2000 TCG/NEA
>theater residency with HERE Theater for her work with operatic and dramatic
>forms.  She is a national member of New Dramatists and an Assistant Professor
>of Playwriting at the University of Texas at Austin.
>
>The Cooper Union Great Hall is  best known for its historical appearances of
>Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Jane Addams and Emma Goldman.   The Cooper Union
>for the Advancement of Science and Art is a distinguished private college of
>art, architecture and engineering founded in 1859 by Peter Cooper, in
>inventor, industrialist and philanthropist.  Since its founding, all admitted
>students have received full-tuition scholarships.
>



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