The Lively Foundation
Lively Artistic Director, Leslie Friedman, will premiere a new work at the concert, STORY DANCES & JAZZ, Sunday, June 10, 3 p.m., at the Veterans Building Green Room, 401 Van Ness Avenue (at McAllister) in San
Francisco’s Civic Center. TICKETS: to charge by phone call: 866/777-8932; online purchase at www.ticketweb.com; at the door as available, but no credit cards taken at the door. Tickets are $20 general; $12 for those over 65, students and children. The audience is invited to a reception after the show.
MEETING BROOK BENTON is a tribute to the great singer/composer whose gifts as a singer were matched by his elegant, beautiful compositions and orchestrations of popular ballads. MEETING BROOK BENTON is a theater/dance work combining narration, music, and dance.
The program includes one of Ms. Friedman’s most celebrated works, WHY? BECAUSE, choreographed for two movements of Sir Edward Elgar’s ‘cello concerto. In it, the dancer takes on two roles, the young man eager to go off to World War I and the woman who waits for him.
The humorous dances, HE NEEDS ME, for Nina Simone’s sly, ironic jazz, and THE OVERTURE, for the Overture to Verdi’s opera, Luisa Miller, enliven the concert.
Special guest artists include bass-baritone Jonathan Clark and pianist Kevin Korth. Mr. Clark will sings works by Charles Ives and contemporary American composer Alva Henderson.
“How lucky are those who get to see her dance even once!” Ludmilla Ozola,
Russkya Gazeta, Riga.
Leslie Friedman performs WHY? BECAUSE in STORY DANCES & JAZZ, Sunday, June 10, 3 p.m., San Francisco’s Veterans Building Green Room.
Friday, June 1, 2007
LESLIE FRIEDMAN TO PREMIERE NEW WORK
