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  • DMG Newsletter April 3rd, 2009

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    John Zorn (via last.fm) From DMG: Sun Ra 6 CD Slugs box .. and Live ’64 with Pharoah! Lou Reed Metal Machine Music Trio Live 2CD! Derek Bailey ’74! Melvin Gibbs With Pete Cosey & John Medeski! Joe Morris! Cooper-Moore! Gunter Hampel original Heartplants ’65! Bob Moses! Roswell Rudd Trombone Tribe! Miles Okazaki! LaDonna Smith/Michael…

  • Two Avant-Gardists Join Forces

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    The collaboration between John Zorn and Richard Foreman is profiled. Two guys meet on a corner in Manhattan’s East Village. First guy says to the second: “Why don’t you write me an opera?” Second guy shrugs and says “OK.” “It was that simple,” said director Richard Foreman of the spark that led to “Astronome: A…

  • John Zorn Scores Richard Foreman’s Astronome

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    A review of this show is available. Richard Foreman has a stimulus package for those who’ve missed the Ontological-Hysteric Theater‘s sensory overload the last few years. The director-playwright-designer founded his pioneering theater in 1968, mounting total-environment stagings of his own mind-plays. But in 2006, he embarked on the Bridge Project, a series of smaller video-performance…

  • Richard Foreman and John Zorn join forces with ASTRONOME: A NIGHT AT THE OPERA

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    John Zorn (via last.fm) A performance of Zorn’s ASTRONOME is ongoing. This is the historic first time collaboration for two MacArthur geniuses who have, individually, challenged, enlightened and entertained adventurous audiences for years. ASTRONOME: A NIGHT AT THE OPERA is a work dominated by ecstatic groans, grunts and babbling, and explores the initiation of a…