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Alverno
Presents 06/07 Season
Read Milwaukee Journal Sentinel online
preview
Bluegrass + Swing + Latin + Jazz + Gypsy = “Dawg
Music.” For over 40 years, mandolinist/composer David Grisman
has been creating a sound so unique, he had to give it its own name.
His collaborators read like a “Who’s Who” of contemporary
music: Bela Fleck, the Grateful Dead, Stephane Grappelli, Emmylou
Harris, Dolly Parton, Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt, Earl Scruggs,
to name only a few. Not enough to begin the season with one legend?
Let’s follow it up with a second! Dan Zanes led the way of rockers making cool music for kids and kid sympathizers (think Wilco for the toddler set). Many have followed, but none has made his mark quite
like “the Dean of Chicago Rock,” the inimitable Jon
Langford. Joined by his fellow-Mekon, the beguiling Sally Timms,
Langford and the Wee Hairy Beasties have sold out shows all over
Chicago, including a spectacular show at the Brookfield Zoo this
past summer. This show is for children of all ages who love listening
to great music and dancing with their friends and neighbors.
How do you spell “Party”? In Portuguese?
In Malay? In Senegalese? With Beat The Donkey, Cyro gives free reign
to his imagination, mixing instruments from Brazil, the U.S., Indonesia
and Africa with his own instruments. It is mysterious, spellbinding,
infectious, irresistible dance music. Cyro himself roams the stage,
conducting his troupe with fiendish glee, keeping the audience's
attention captive for the whole show. The amazing thing about Beat
The Donkey is the unending variations; you could listen to them
all night and still want to hear more. And we’ve got a surprise
for the finale that you won’t see anyplace else!
If anyone can set Jorge Luis Borges to music, it’s Carla Kihlstedt. Though trained in the classical canon, violinist, vocalist and composer Carla Kihlstedt has stretched her experience of music far beyond the classical stage. She is a founding member of Tin Hat Trio, 2 Foot Yard, and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. Alverno Presents, in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the National Performance Network, has commissioned Carla to compose Necessary Monsters. Inspired by the Borges’ collection of creatures from myth and dreams, Carla’s songs for violin, voice and small orchestra will bring to life such fantastic beings as the Ink Monkey, the Animal Dreamed and Hundred-Headed Snake. It's rock meets jazz meets classical meets root until the categories lose all meaning and become magnificently Carla! Read Milwaukee Journal Sentinel online preview, Feb. 28, 2007.
It would be enough to see the passionately acclaimed Stephen Petronio Company dance anything – they are that vivid, that wild, and that hot! His new evening-length work, Bloom, celebrates
the openness and purity of youth. Says Petronio, "Bloom
is to be in flower, a time of vigor, freshness, and flourish, an
awesomely energized and beautiful moment." And if that's not
enough, throw in an original score by the one and only Rufus Wainwright,
performed live by the Milwaukee Children's Choir, and you have one
of the few "must see" events of the 06/07 season. You have three options for redeeming your tickets:
Whichever option you choose, please mail your tickets no later than March 16, 2007 to: We apologize for the inconvenience, and we are grateful for your understanding and continuing support.
We could tell you that Andrew Bird is the original
one man band of indie rock. We could describe his performances where
he alternately plucks and bows his violin, immediately sampling
the results, and then layers the sounds with guitar, glockenspiel,
vocals, and whistling (the dude’s a world class whistler).
We could share all the critical adjectives – “haunting”
– “pastoral” – “magical.” Or
we could leave it all to USA Today (a not entirely comfortable
concept), but they were the ones who nail it with “Beck meets
Itzhak Perlman.”
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