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Presents The Story Orchestra Saturday, September 11th 2010 ~6PM
till 8PM in The Cotati Community Garden East
Cotati Ave across from La Salle Featuring: Coastal Winds, Larry Temple, Mistaundahill, P. Joseph Potocky, and The Round - Brian Skinner, Kelly Ann Walton, Tanya Boone-Alva, Nick Alva The event
is FREE but limited to 30 people. No reservations. There is plenty of
ground, to sit upon, but bring a chair or blanket if you like. “An Artful Celebration of Life in the Garden with Stories and Music” http://www.artssonoma.com/2010/ www.morningstarplay.com 707-795-3545 Alva Sound Art Studio The Story Orchestra is a performance group that combines music of all
genres – classical, folk, hip hop, rock, pop, etc.. – and the instrumentation
to perform in those genres, with storytelling. The stories can be performed
in spoken word, in poetry, recited with musical accompaniment, or sung in
song. This performance, presented by
the Arts Sonoma ’10 imagine Festival, will be the debut of The Story Orchestra. We will perform in the
Cotati Community Garden, which is an active growing community garden. The
theme will be a celebration of life in the garden, of humanity in nature
celebrating the potentials of peace, spirit, art, community, beauty and the
abundance that is the universe. Also it is, in my own way, a reclaiming of
the date September 11th, from all of the destructiveness associated with that
unfortunate, fateful day. The Story Orchestra is a fluid group of performers, a bit of a
collective where collaboration and combinations are the key. No performance
will feature the same performers or themes. So each concert will be unique.
The group is new and will eventually develop to include dance, movement,
theatre and visual arts as well. This performance features the
spoken word artist Larry Temple, an exemplar of the art ideas of Rudolf
Steiner, with the excellent wind trio Coastal Winds of which oboist Daniel
Celidore is a member. In the second half of the performance they will perform
a condensed version of Jean Giorno’s “The Man Who Planted Trees” along with
music for wind trio; The first set will feature the writer P. Joseph Potocky,
one of the best satirists in California today (SF Bay Detective); the hip hop
group Mistaundahill; and a reunion of the band The Round that
performed concerts and composed for theatre productions, and in the 1990’s
toured as one of the North Bay’s leading eclectic folk music groups. I would like to thank John Moran
and all of those associated with the grants program of the Arts Council of
Sonoma County, and the Community Foundation of Sonoma County for awarding us
the grant that makes this premier performance possible. I encourage all of
you to visit their website and participate not only in the Arts Sonoma ’10 imagine
Festival, but in all of the arts going on in Sonoma County.
http://www.artssonoma.com/2010/ Nick Alva Alva Sound Art Studio If you
are interested in hiring The Story
Orchestra for an event, please contact me and we can discuss and
collaborate on your goals and needs. |
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The premiere performance opened
8pm, Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 at the Bette Condiotti Black Box Experimental
Theatre, located in the Read our reviews
and find out why! Thank you to everyone for your continued
support – and watch this space for news of the dawning of future MorningStar
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MorningStar,
the play, an original historical musical by Nicholas Alva about a ranch in
Occidental in the 1960’s, the people who came to live there, and their relationship
with the surrounding community.