![]() ![]() Understudies : Augustin Cimbault Marlon Thiebaux-AmarantheĬostume assistants : Ida Maité Hahn, Lelie de Mercey Installation design : Gerard & Kelly en collaboration avec Simon de Dreuille Prelude to The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc (1981), Gay Guerrilla (1979) Samuel Akins+, Soa de Muse, Guillaume Diop+, Conor Hanick* (piano), Coleman Itzkoff* (violoncelle), Awa Joannais+, Germain Louvet+, Enzo Saugar+, Adam Tendler (piano) Davóne Tines* (baryton-basse), Richard Valitutto (piano), Seth Parker Woods (violoncelle)Ĭoncept and choreography : Gerard & Kelly Gerard & Kelly create a new performance, also called Gay Guerrilla, with the collaboration of the American musicians of the Wild Up and Amoc* ensembles, opera singer Davóne Tines, performer Soa de Muse, and the dancers of the Ballet of the Opéra National de Paris, including star dancers Guillaume Diop and Germain Louvet. Written by Eastman ten years after the Stonewall riots, Gay Guerrilla (1979) calls on the performers and audience to join the cause of queer liberation. Gerard & Kelly redesign Gallery 3 as a minimalist discotheque comprising new metal and neon sculptures along with monotypes on paper. It does not store any personal data.Eastman infused his musical experimentalism with the passion of political commitment, declaring himself to be "black to the maximum, musician to the maximum, homosexual to the maximum". The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. ![]() The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Gay Guerrilla: A Minimalist Choralphantasie - Luciano ChessaĪppendix: Julius Eastman Compositions - Mary Jane Leach "The Piece Does Not Exist without Julius": Still Staying on Stay On It - Matthew Mendez Julius Eastman Singing - John Patrick ThomasĪn Accidental Musicologist Passes the Torch - Mary Jane LeachĪ Flexible Musical Identity: Julius Eastman in New York City, 1976-90 - Ryan DohoneyĮvil Nigger: A Piece for Multiple Instruments of the Same Type by Julius Eastman (1979), with Performance Instructions by Joseph Kubera - David BordenĪ Postminimalist Analysis of Julius Eastman's Crazy Nigger - Andrew Hanson-Dvoracek Julius Eastman and the Conception of "Organic Music" - Kyle Gann Julius Eastman, A Biography - Renee Levine Packer Introduction: Julius Eastman and His Music - Renee Levine Packer Mary Jane Leach is a composer and freelance writer, currently writing music and theatre criticism for the Albany Times-Union. Renée Levine Packer's book This Life of Sounds: Evenings for New Music inBuffalo received an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for excellence. The book presents an authentic portrait of a notable American artist thatis compelling reading for the general reader as well as scholars interested in twentieth-century American music, American studies, gay rights, and civil rights. In addition to analyses of Eastman's music, the essays in Gay Guerrilla provide background on his remarkable life history and the era's social landscape. These episodes are examples of Eastman's persistence in pushing the limits of the acceptable in the highly charged arenas of sexual and civil rights. ![]() Eastman's provocative titles, including Gay Guerrilla, Evil Nigger, Crazy Nigger, and others, assault us with his obsessions.Įastman tested limits with his political aggressiveness, as reflected in legendary scandals like his June 1975 performance of John Cage's Song Books, which featured homoerotic interjections, and the uproar over his titles at Northwestern University. His music, insistent and straightforward, resists labels and seethes with a tension that resonates with musicians, scholars, and audiences today. A compelling portrait of composer-performer Julius Eastman's enigmatic and intriguing life and music.Ĭomposer-performer Julius Eastman (1940-90) was an enigma, both comfortable and uncomfortable in the many worlds he inhabited: black, white, gay, straight, classical music, disco, academia, and downtown New York. ![]()
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