I'm not going to be able to make this, but I think you should. Eric Hull of the Waterbrook Studio talks about the project below.
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For those of you who have not seen and heard our previous performances, let me offer a brief description:
We take the poetry from the page and speak it in chorus. It is an experiment in form and expression. Some of the words are spoken in unison, some are solo, and some are spoken in a counterpoint combinations.
I just finished scoring the Dylan Thomas poem, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.” It is a simple and loving expression of a son’s hopes for his aging father.
We will also read Dorothy Parker’s “Bohemia,” and a new arrangement of Gertrude Stein’s cubist portrait of Picasso, “If I Told Him.”
In an arrangement of three works about grief and the recovery from grief, we present a medley of poems by husband and wife poets Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon. Kenyon’s poem about attending a funeral is blended with two of Hall’s poems that trace the trajectory of his grief at Kenyon’s death.
In “Liberator of the Spirit” by Kamau Daaood, the poet calls the great saxophonist John Coltrane a “freedom fighter/Liberator of the spirit from the shackles of form….” VOX uses the words of this poem to explore the choral possibilities of reading the words as if Coltrane was performing them, complete with his thrilling arpeggios spoken rather than played.
If you've never heard us, here is a link to a recording of "Footnote to Howl," by Allen Ginsberg. It will give you an idea of what is in store if you can come.
I hope you will find it an evening that presents poetry in a new and revealing way.
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The remaining performances are tonight and tomorrow at 7:30 PM at the Waterbrook Studio - 2109 N. Albina. Tickets are on a sliding scale, $10 - $15. Call 503-901-5101 to reserve tickets. The cast includes Gary Brickner-Schulz, Adrienne Flagg, Theresa Koon, Quigley Provost-Landrum, Kerry Ryan, and John Vergin.
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