FOREPLAY deals with the themes of jealousy, and the border between erotica and pornography - through the eyes of Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, and Gretel and Theodor W. Adorno.
Carl Djerassi, emeritus Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University is one of the few American scientists to have been awarded both the National Medal of Science (for the first synthesis of an oral contraceptive) and the National Medal of Technology. The recipient of numerous other awards as well as 26 honorary doctorates, he has turned over the last 25 years into a novelist and playwright. His nine plays have been cumulatively translated into twenty languages and FOREPLAY will receive its premiere in London in late 2012. FOREPLAY has already been published in book form in English, German, and Spanish and is based in part on Djerassi’s biographical book, Four Jews on Parnasus—a Conversation: Benjamin, Adorno, Scholem, Schoenberg
Isabella Gregor is a Viennese actress, who has acted in major theatres in Germany and Austria as well as a director of plays in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, UK., USA and Singapore. Most recently, she has concentrated on directing operettas.
$15.00 includes a drink
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This weekend will feature music from suno suno along with new compositions with an elite band of David Binney, alto saxophone, Matt Mitchell, piano, Johannes Wiedenmueller, bass and Dan Weiss drums. See website for further tour dates.
$20 cover (includes a drink)
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Inna Faliks, piano - Beethoven Fantasie opus 77, Schoenberg 3 Klavierstucke opus 11
Samantha Malk, soprano - Inna Faliks, piano. Schoenberg, lieder selections from 7 Early Songs, Cabaret Songs, Books of Hanging Gardens.
Irina Mashinksi - poems
Clarice Assad - compositions and improvisations
Founder and curator of Music/Words, INNA FALIKS has established herself as one of the most passionate and poetic young pianists on the classical music scene. Multiple competition prize winner, she performs widely in the US and abroad, in venues like Carnegie Hall, Salle Cortot in Paris, Moscow's Tchaikovsky Hall, and frequently on tv and radio nationwide. Critics describe her as "going beyond technical perfection, compelling emotional intensity, a musician at peace within herself", "Passion and playfulness - warmly poetic." Her recent CD, Sound of Verse, received rave reviews from Gramophone and American Record Guide.
$20 includes a drink or credit against food. http://www.innaonline.com , http://www.musicwordsnyc.com
$10 Cover plus $10 minimum
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BARBARA FELDON is best known as “99”--the secret Agent on the TV series, Get Smart. During her career she has performed in television films, variety shows, and motion pictures, (only one of which she wishes to remember). On stage she was in the Circle in the Square production of Past Tense, the off Broadway musical Cut the Ribbons, and her one woman show, Love for Better or Verse. Over the years she has developed a number of poetry and prose readings: Great Love Poetry, Pablo Neruda in His Own Words, Jane Austin, and Virginia Woolf. From 1982 to 1984 she hosted The 80’s Woman on Lifetime Network. Her book of essays, Living alone--and Loving it! was published in 2003 by Simon and Schuster.
ROBERTA MAXWELL: Broadway: Our Town, Equus, Othello, Henry V. Off-Broadway: CSC, The Public Theater, MTC. Regional: Hartford Stage, Long Wharf, Mark Taper Forum, The Old Globe, Guthrie Theater, Alley Theatre, Stratford Connecticut, Stratford Ontario. Film: Dead Man Walking, Brokeback Mountain, Popeye, Philadelphia, Last Night, Sudden Disclosure, Scar Tissue. TV: "Law & Order," "Another World," "Mourning Becomes Electra" (PBS), "Airwaves, (CBS Series), "What Makes A Family," Warehouse 13." Awards: Obie (Whistle in the Dark, Ashes), Drama Desk (Slag), Willager (Mary Stuart), Carbonell (Lettuce and Lovage).
Michael Cumpsty is a British actor. He has been acting since childhood. He has worked extensively performing Shakespeare, as well as both musicals and dramas on Broadway. He also performs in films, and on television. On the Broadway stage he appeared in dramas, including La Bête (1991), Timon of Athens (1993), The Heiress (1995),Copenhagen (2000), and The Constant Wife (2005). Cumpsty's feature films include State of Grace (1990), Fatal Instinct (1993), Starting Out in the Evening, The Ice Storm (1997),Eat Pray Love (2010) and The Visitor (2007).
Jolle Greenleaf is one of the leading voices in the early music field. She is a much sought-after soloist in music by Bach, Handel, Haydn, Purcell, Mozart, and, most notably, Claudio Monteverdi. Her performances have earned raves from the Oregonian— “[Greenleaf] sang with purity an beguiling naturalness”— and The New York Times, which praised her as “An exciting soprano soloist… beautifully accurate and stylish…” Ms. Greenleaf is also the artistic director of the virtuoso one-voice-per-part ensemble TENET, where she creates programs, directs and sings in performances of repertoire spanning the middle ages to the present day.
Lutenist Hank Heijink (pronounced Hey-ink) has played all over the world with leading ensembles such as the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, European Union Baroque Orchestra, Orchestre d’Auvergne, TENET, Mark Morris Dance Group, and the Wooster Group, among others. He is in high demand as an accompanist on theorbo, lute, and guitar, and his playing has been described as “eloquent” (Wall Street Journal) and “deft and sensitive” (New York Times). When not playing lute, he writes software for the iPhone.
$ 15 includes a drink
Song Cycles by Michael Djupstrom, Tom Cipullo, and Samuel Barber
Join noted soprano Eleanor Taylor (Two Sides Sounding) and pianist Michael Brofman (Artistic Director, Brooklyn Art Song Society) for an exciting evening of American art song. Up-and-coming composer Michael Djupstrom's Three Teasdale Songs capture the elegance and longing of the poetry of Sarah Teasdale in high romantic fashion. Tom Cipullo's Of A Certain Age is a sometimes charming, sometimes profound, always fresh and inspired look at aging and mortality through the eyes of a strong and independent woman. Samuel Barber's Hermit Songs, a masterpiece of 20th-century art song, is a poignant reflection on God, loneliness, joy, and drink. All of the performers and living composers are colleagues and friends as well as long time collaborators making this a uniquely intimate night of music- making.
$20.00 includes a drink
Joey De Jesus (SLC) received his BA from Oberlin College and is currently pursuing his MFA in poetry at Sarah Lawrence. His interactive video installations, Hoax and A Hawk and a Broken Home, have screened at Kinetic//Brim an event hosted by Harvestworks in New York City. His poetry has appeared in LUMINA. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Rebecca Dinerstein grew up in New York City, got her bachelor's in creative writing from Yale and is currently enrolled in the fiction MFA program at NYU. Between schools, she lived for two years in the arctic of Norway, where she wrote a book poems describing the far north's two seasons: perpetual light and perpetual darkness. The collection will be published in Norway this August, in a bilingual edition. She lives in Brooklyn, where she is working on the English-to-Norwegian poem translations and a novel.
Nathalia Perozo was born in Chile and grew up in the Dominican Republic and Queens, NY. She’s graduating this May from the The School of Public Engagement at The New School. Her inspirations are aging rockstars, Katherine Hepburn, John Waters, and wildlife. She works for a nonprofit organization in Chelsea and lives in downtown Manhattan with her fiance and street cat, Althea. Jeffrey Grunthaner is an MFA Candidate at Brooklyn College. His poetry has most recently been published in Unlikely Stories 2.0 and Revolutionesque, and his critical writing has most recently appeared in The Faster Times and Bomb.
Liz Dosta is the recipient of the 2011 Linda Corrente Prize for Poetry and the Stanley Kunitz Fellowship. Her poetry has been published in Argos Book's Little Anthology, and her most recent essay, "The Poetry of Mark Zuckerberg," was published on Thought Catalogue. She is currently pursuing her MFA in poetry at Columbia University. She lives and writes in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
$7.00 includes a drink
$20 (includes a drink)
$ 7 includes a drink
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This month’s featured act brings the at times gripping, groping, but always generously engaging words and gestures of Aimee Herman to the stage, jamming with the band (Davey Patterson, guitar; Matt Riganese, piano; Dave McKeon, bass; and Ry Pilla, drums).
AIMEE HERMAN is a queer performance poet who occasionally can be found writing poems on her body. Her work has been featured at various New York venues such as the Happy Ending Lounge, Dixon Place, Wow Café Theatre, Public Assembly, and Mike Geffner Presents: The Inspired Word. Publications include work in Sous Les Paves, Clean Sheets, Cake Train, Pregnant Moon Review, Cliterature Journal, and more, and has been extensively anthologized in Focus on the Fabulous: Colorado GLBT Writers (Johnson Books), Recipes for the Apocalypse: A Toast to a New Frontier (Baobob Tree Press), Best Lesbian Love Stories 2010 (Alyson Books), and You Say. Say. (Uphook Press). Aimee’s new book of poetry, to go without blinking, has recently been released by BlazeVOX (books).
“Aimee Herman is a cyborg. Not in the sense of a mixture but in her impetus. Her desire [is] for a book to be a new kind of thinking and being in the world.” —Bhanu Kapil, The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa University.
… And of course, we also look forward this evening to your turn to step up to the Open Mic! Sign-up begins at 5:45PM.
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arrive 5:45 to sign up, 3 minute time limit
RICK MULLIN’s poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including American Arts Quarterly, The Raintown Review, Unsplendid, Méasŭre, The Flea, and Ep;phany. His epic poem Soutine, on the life of the painter Chaim Soutine, was published earlier this year by Dos Madres Press in Loveland, Ohio. His book-length poem, Huncke, was published by Seven Towers, Dublin, Ireland, in 2010. And his chapbook, Aquinas Flinched, was published by the Modern Metrics imprint of Exot Books, New York City, in 2008.
WALTER ANCARROW's poetry has appeared in Alimentum, LIGHT Quarterly, the Nervous Breakdown, and Three Quarks Daily. He is the associate editor of KIN, a journal of international poetry in English. One of his poems, "Butterfingers Strikes Again," has been recorded by fans worldwide on YouTube.
$ 7 includes a drink, how can it be so cheap? http://www.threeroomspress.com
"Tomas Fujiwara works with rhythm as a pliable substance, solid but ever shifting...His style is forward-driving but rarely blunt or aggressive, and never random. He has a way of spreading out the center of a pulse while setting up a rigorous scaffolding of restraint... a conception of the drum set as a full-canvas instrument, almost orchestral in its scope." -- Nate Chinen, New York Times
$25 cover (includes a drink)
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One of the great composers of the twentieth century, Hanns Eisler, born in 1898, was Bertolt Brecht’s long-term and most politically engaged collaborator. Committedly left-wing and enormously versatile, he composed in a wild variety of genres, from chamber pieces in the style of Schönberg (who regarded him, Berg and Webern as his most gifted students) to ‘agitprop’ ballads and choruses for the Workers’ Movement; from full symphonic works to the more conventional film scores he wrote for Hollywood.
These conversations reflect Eisler’s desire to keep the memory and work of Brecht alive after Brecht's death in 1956. They cover a multitude of subjects: Eisler’s political ideas, his thoughts on the social significance of music, his theatrical collaborations with Brecht, their joint period of exile in the US, their bruising encounters with Senator McCarthy’s House Un-American Activities Committee, Brecht’s understanding of music, his Marxism, meetings between Brecht and Charlie Chaplin, Brecht and Thomas Mann, and so on.
We are extraordinarily fortunate to have living around the corner (and appearing tonight to sing some of the Brecht/Eisler canon) possibly the greatest living interpreter of songs from the Weimar era, Sanda Weigl , who descends from the great German actress, Helene Weigel, Brecht's wife, and the founder with him, after they returned to Germany, of the legendary Berliner Ensemble.
The quintet will feature all new music blending contemporary jazz, microtonality and modern classical music. The unusual acoustic instrumentation of viola, bass clarinet, piano, bass and drums will also seamlessly weave in electronic ambience. The quintets goal is to follow in the great jazz tradition and lineage of expanding the boundaries of improvised music, they are currently preparing to record for the Dahabenzapple label who will be releasing the new Maneri/Peterson duet “27” later this year.
“Mat (Maneri) upholding avant-garde excellence,…engrossing, ruminative viola improvisation of contrasting reticence” –- Boston Globe
$25 cover (includes a drink) http://www.myspace.com/matmaneri
Cover is given where known Many spoken words events are free There is always a one-drink minimum per set; times are door opening times
