Serving the San Francisco Bay Area New Music Community

Fri, Oct 2 2015 8:00 PM

Brava Theater Center
2781 24th St., San Francisco, CA

Bassist and composer Lisa Mezzacappa presents the Bay Area premiere of her expansive new work Glorious Ravage, a multi-media song cycle for a large ensemble of virtuoso California improvisers.

Glorious Ravage features new film, video and animation by Bay Area filmmakers Janis Crystal Lipzin, Kathleen Quillian, Alfonso Alvarez and Konrad Steiner. The work is inspired by the adventures and writings of Victorian lady explorers, who trekked to the wildest parts of the earth, to escape, to discover, and to lose themselves.

Glorious Ravage is performed by:
Fay Victor, voice
Dina Maccabee, viola
Nicole Mitchell, flute
Vinny Golia, winds
Cory Wright, clarinet and saxophone
Kyle Bruckmann, oboes
Darren Johnston, trumpet
Michael Dessen, trombone
Myra Melford, piano
John Finkbeiner, guitar
Mark Dresser, bass
Lisa Mezzacappa, bass
Jordan Glenn, drums
Kjell Nordeson, vibraphone & percussion
Tim Perkis, live electronics

Visit http://www.gloriousravage.com for more info

Tickets:
https://www.vendini.com/ticket-software.html?t=tix&e=5e1ce71be7886ce2230f61b906cc4e66

Cost: $20, $15 students and seniors
Audio samples in which musicians at this event play:
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
Lisa Mezzacappa's Eartheaters - Live at YBCA
Lisa Mezzacappa & Nightshade - Live
avantNOIR, a suite of compositions for jazz quartet plus guests, is a musical companion to the crime novels of Dashiell Hammett and Paul Auster. All music by Lisa Mezzacappa.