Wadada Leo Smith: CREATE
A festival dedicated to the music of Wadada Leo Smith. It is a source for premiering new and existing works, and the celebration of information through seminars, video and film presentation. This is to instill information that will address the historical and inspirational sources of the new works.
CREATE occurs annually in New Haven, CT during the month of April, and later in the year in other regions in the United States. There, CREATE incorporates a community of musicians in those selected sites. Also, each festival opens with young developing artist’ ensemble, who are assigned to compose a new work to be premiered at CREATE.
Our outreach program for young children and young developing artists takes place through the production of performances and workshops in local nursery schools, kindergarten schools and neighborhood schools of music. All this is made possible with the support of The Doris Duke Artist Award of 2016-2019.
Friday, December 15
Doors 7:30pm / Music 8:00pm
Lamar Smith / Hardedge / Pheeroan akLaff: New Piece / South Central L.A.
Lamar Smith: guitar
Hardedge: soundesign
Pheeroan akLaff: drums
Wadada Leo Smith: Silence
Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet
David Leikam: Moog synthesizer
Anthony Davis: piano
RedKoral Quartet: Pacifica, String Quartet No. 12B
RedKoral Quartet
Shalini Vijayan: violin
Mona Thian: violin
Andrew McIntosh: viola
Ashley Walters: cello
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Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet
Hardedge: soundesign
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Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quintet: America’s National Parks (New Orleans The National Culture Park USA 1718; Eileen Jackson Southern, 1920-2002 A Literary National Park; Yellowstone The First National Park and the Spirit of America – The Mountains, Super-Volcano Caldera and Its Ecosystem 1872)
Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet
Anthony Davis: piano
Ashley Walters: cello
John Lindberg: bass
Pheeroan akLaff: drums
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Jesse Gilbert – video artist