AMERICA. at the Broad Stage

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October 13, 2012
8:00 PM

Broad Stage
1310 11th Street
Santa Monica, CA 90401

Political Music. American Music.

We Americans have a penchant for argument which is manifested nowhere more clearly than in our political work.The show we’ve created on for Under the Radar at the Broad concerns the intersection of these political arguments and music.

We’re playing: Sousa, Nina Simone, 3 national anthems a la Jimi Hendrix, Merle Haggard and John Lennon, Samuel Barber, a piece about falling in love with oil by David T. Little, and one on the text of George W. and Barbara Bush in the aftermath of the Katrina disaster by Ted Hearne.

We hope you’re moved … to vote.

Here’s the program:

John Philip Sousa arranged by wild Up

from Katrina Ballads

— Ted Hearne

feat. Mezzo-soprano, Abigail Fischer

Three National Anthems a la Jimi Hendrix

— Nick Deyoe

Okie from Muskogee

— Merle Haggard / Wes Matthews

John Sinclair

— John Lennon / Isaac Schankler

feat. Bobby Halvorson and Laura Anderson

Four Excursions

— Samuel Barber / Richard Valitutto

Sweet Light Crude

— David T. Little

Attica

— Fredrick Rzewski

Strange Fruit

— Nina Simone / Andrew McIntosh