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Suzanne at St. Ann's Warehouse

Last post Mon, Apr 07 2008, 12:38 PM by northernsoul79. 3 replies.
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  • Suzanne at St. Ann's Warehouse
    22660

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     Mon, Mar 24 2008, 3:42 PM

    http://stannswarehouse.org/current_season.php?show_id=24 

    Don't think this has been posted yet. Only drawback? Lowest price ticket is $300. It is a benefit concert, which accounts for the high price.

    Courtesy of the St. Ann's website:

    St. Ann's Warehouse Gala Benefit
    Hal Willner’s
    Stay Awake Live
    The 20th Anniversary Concert
    Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films

    Featuring from the Original Cast Album
    Terry Adams of NRBQ
    Marshall Allen of Sun Ra Arkestra
    Maud and Garth
    Hudson
    Suzanne Vega
    and the Voice of Ken Nordine

    also featuring

    Steve Buscemi
    David Byrne
    Gavin Friday
    Beth Orton
    Richard Strange
    Martha Wainwright


    Wed | Apr 2

    6:30 pm: Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres
    8:00 pm: American Premiere of STAY AWAKE LIVE
    9:15 pm: Dinner and dessert

    St. Ann’s Gala 2008 will feature a concert celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the release of Stay Awake, record producer Hal Willner’s historic compilation of music from the Vintage Disney Songbook. First presented last summer at the Meltdown Festival in London, Stay Awake has never been performed live in America. Best known for a groundbreaking series of multi-artist tribute albums interpreting the work of composers such as Nino Rota, Kurt Weill and Thelonious Monk, Willner (often imitated, never duplicated) set out to match surprising material with extraordinary musicians from the nether regions of pop, rock, jazz and the avant garde, all thrown together to brilliant effect. Stay AwakeLive is an amalgam of the bizarre and the familiar, performed by a soon-to-be-announced spectrum of enticing artists. As Meltdown director Jarvis Cocker described this eclectic mix of enchanting, somber and, at times, sardonic adaptations of tunes from The Jungle Book, Snow White, Dumbo, Alice in Wonderland, Pinocchio, etc.: “Love ‘em or hate ‘em, if you leave the theater without having shed a tear you’re something less than human.”

  • Re: Suzanne at St. Ann's Warehouse
    22678 in reply to 22660

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     Tue, Apr 01 2008, 10:44 AM

    Have a great time, SV.

    One of my very favorite concert dvd's was recorded at St. Ann's with Aimee Mann.

    Please, oh Gods and Goddesses in charge of these things, let this show be recorded for future release.

    "Oow! Oow! Oow! I wanna be just like you..."

    "Stay Awake" was such a fine release.


    "The future has a brilliant future in it."
  • Re: Suzanne at St. Ann's Warehouse
    22722 in reply to 22678

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     Mon, Apr 07 2008, 11:52 AM

    I have just checked Suzanne's new blog entry about this performance, and great mobile pic Paul made of her and Beth Orton backstage. It must have been very special, with the mentioned great participants!!

     as for Stay Awake, I first heard it from cd about 10 years ago in a Budapest cellar theater, (as part of the theater performance, played as background music to the performance ). Then I got the sound material, and used the song by Suzanne at English teaching classes at companies. As many of these were before working hours, at banks, for example , early in the morning, playing it made sense not only about the great lyrics and the wonderful performance!:)  all the students that time loved the song at the classes!! Good work , Suzanne! 

     I'm sure the other piece last Wednesday, Cruella De Vil was also great!  Lucky those attending.

    have a nice week! 

    best wishes, Zoli

  • Re: Suzanne at St. Ann's Warehouse
    22724 in reply to 22722

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     Mon, Apr 07 2008, 12:38 PM
    thanks for posting that Zoli. my two favorite singers on one couch!! so cool!
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