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2008-2009
PROGRAM OFFERING SUMMARY
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PROGRAM SUMMARY
ORCHESTRAL
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etudes4violin&electronix
Featuring DBR (violin, piano), Wynne Bennett (keyboards),
and Elan Vytal, aka DJ Scientific (turntables, laptop)
The program features selected solo and duet works from DBR’s
recent album from Thirsty Ear Recording, etudes4violin&electronix,
and from the critically acclaimed Sonata for Violin and
Turntables, conceived by DBR and co-written by DBR and his
long-time collaborator and contemporary music remixer extraordinatire,
Elan Vyta, and featuring keyboardist Wynne Bennettl. A musical
exploration between contrasting cultures and instruments
of classical and pop music genres, the program speaks to
the history and traditions of both, and the violin,the keyboards,
the turntables and the laptop sing, battle and rhyme together,
honoring a full spectrum of musical inventions.
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ONE LOSS PLUS
Featuring DBR (violin), Wynne Bennett (piano), electronics
and video. Commissioned by Brooklyn Academy of Music and
William Patterson University
What is gained when something or someone is lost?
The multi-media work for violin, piano, electronics and
video, One Loss Plus portrays
and confronts those feelings of loss, isolation and endearing
optimism through the recorded interviews and narratives
of others who have lost (and gained) from their experiences.
DBR’s meditative, serene and melodious score reflects
the re-telling of these personal narratives as he traverses
the stage and interacts with the video installation by Janet
Wong performing a continuous series of sonatas for 6 string
electric violin and prepared/amplified piano.
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DBR
& THE MISSION
Featuring DBR (violin, piano), amplified strings, DJ, bass,
keyboard, drum-kit and laptops
DBR’s genre-jumping, multicultraul, high-energy ensemble,
DBR & THE MISSION presents an electrifying show described
as “an evening of chamber music with the accessible
feel of a rock concert” (Albany Times-Union).
From rock clubs to university halls to the Library of Congress,
the group offers a diverse selection of DBR’s most recent
works including 24 Bits: Hip-Hop Studies and Etudes
and Event Pieces. An evening of
DBR’s string quartets (No.1-4) is also offered in A
Civil Rights Reader, a collection of musical
portraits of iconic figures from the civil rights era: Malcolm
X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Adam
Clayton Powell, Jr. and Maya Angelou. |
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VOODOO VIOLIN CONCERTO
NO. 1
(2002 / 2006) 24’
(Available for either full or chamber orchestra)
(Features DBR on electric or acoustic violin)
DBR: "This violin concerto is most concerned
with the notion of the ritual, or our collective rites of
passage. From the current state of a highly technological
country in the United States of America (the techno textures
and rhythms of "Filtering"), to my own relationship
with Catholicism (the meditative tonality of "Prayer"),
I find "Tribe" in all of its primitive repetition,
to, perhaps, be the most accurate depiction of where we
are right now, as a collective, civilized society; a collective,
civilized world."
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DARWIN’S
MEDITATION FOR THE PEOPLE OF LINCOLN
(2008)
A Quartet Concerto composed by DBR, a musical setting of a
pocket play by Daniel Beaty.)
Freedom, survival, legacy are words
that arise when thinking of Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln,
two dynamic men born on the same day, within hours of one
another, on February 12, 1809. Darwin's Meditation for
The People of Lincoln is a quartet concerto based on
the real and imagined relationship between Darwin, Lincoln,
and the people of the United States born after the end of
the Civil War. DBR has created an eclectic, soaring musical
score which incorporates an original “pocket play”
by playwright/performer Daniel Beaty (2007 Obie Award Winner)
inspired by and culled from collected texts by Darwin and
Lincoln. Features DBR on violin. No intermission.
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To request a
complete technical rider, please email music@dbrmusic.com.
Be sure to include the show date and program title in your
email. |
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