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Contact: Liam Otten - (314) 935-8494 liam_otten@aismail.wustl.edu Deborah Jaegers - (314) 935-4912 Click here to read more about Vo-Du Macbeth. Jazz Clarinetist and Vo-Du Macbeth composer Alvin Batisté performs for American Café series Sept. 26 [St. Louis, MO., 9-23-02] Jazz clarinetist Alvin Batisté, composer for the National Spirit Project's theatrical work-in-progress Vo-Du Macbeth (a Creole-flavored adaptation of the Shakespearean classic), will perform for the American Café series at Washington University Thursday, Sept. 26. The performance is free and open to the public and takes place from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in Umrath Lounge, located in Umrath Hall, just north of the Mallinckrodt Student Center, 6445 Forsyth Blvd. For more information about the American Café, call (314) 935-4912. The American Café is sponsored by the University's American Culture Studies Program in Arts & Sciences and Edison Theatre in conjunction with the Midwest premiere of Vo-Du Macbeth, which launches the 2002-03 Edison Theatre OVATIONS! Series Sept. 28 and 29. This American Café session will be hosted by Gerald Early, Ph.D., the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters and a professor of English and African and Afro-American Studies in Arts & Sciences. The American Café will feature a mix of live music and discussion and Batiste will sample recordings from his score for Vo-Du Macbeth. "The poetry of [Vo-Du Macbeth creator] Lenwood Sloan expresses a fourth dimension in the background of the large and small struggles between the haves and the have-nots," Batisté writes in his artist's statement. "It permitted me to exercise aesthetic freedom as I filtered the images and the symbols heterodyned through the inner composer. They express the vernacular and the transcendental of the period and the locale of the plot." Born in New Orleans in 1932, Batisté developed his rich sound by mastering virtually the entire repertoire of clarinet music, from traditional jazz and blues to classical and marching music. A professional since the early 1950's, he has recorded as a sideman with musicians ranging from early R&B greats like Professor Longhair and Little Willie John; to such classic modern jazz musicians as Cannonball Adderley, Ernie Wilkins and Freddie Hubbard; to contemporary jazzmen like Billy Cobham and Wynton Marsalis. Batisté is also an educator, teaching at his own Jazz Institute at Southern University in Baton Rouge. Developed by the American Culture Studies Program in 2001, the American Café format provides an opportunity not only to hear great performances but also to hear performers talk about the sources of their art, the traditions reflected in their music and the experiences that have shaped them as artists. In that accounting, they allow audiences to better understand the dynamics of culture and the ongoing process of shaping and reshaping our American identity. |
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