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César Alvarez
César Alvarez (born 1980) is an American composer, lyricist and playwright. César is best known for the musical ''FUTURITY'' which they wrote with their band The Lisps. ''FUTURITY'' won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical in 2016. Alvarez is an Assistant Professor of Music at Dartmouth College. Early life Alvarez was born to a Cuban father and a Euro-American mother in Greensboro, NC. They were named for César Cauce and James Waller, who were both victims of the Greensboro Massacre. Alvarez attended Interlochen Arts Academy and Oberlin Conservatory. They received an MFA from Bard College. Alvarez uses they/them pronouns Career Alvarez spent the early years of their career performing with The Lisps. The Lisps released 4 albums between 2006 and 2012." In 2008, Alvarez conceived of the Civil War-era science fictional musical ''FUTURITY'' as their master's thesis at Bard. In 2009, The Lisps first performed ''FUTURITY'' at the now defunct New York City venue, T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lisps
The Lisps was an American, New York-based indie rock band. The group formed in The South Bronx in 2005 fronted by César Alvarez and Sammy Tunis. The band consists of four members playing guitars, melodicas, found percussion, drum set, and male/female vocals. The music combines elements of Folk and Vaudeville with Western pop music. In 2008 The Lisps wrote a Civil War and science fiction themed musical entitled ''Futurity'' which has been performed in workshop versions at The Zipper Factory, Joe's Pub and HERE in New York City. ''Futurity'' world premiered as part of the American Repertory Theater's 2011-12 season under the direction of Sarah Benson. Walker Art Center has co-commissioned the project. Broadway actor Michael Cerveris has performed with The Lisps in several of the workshop productions of ''Futurity'' and in concert. The Lisps composed the music for The Foundry Theatre's 2013 production of Bertolt Brecht's "The Good Person of Szechwan", which starred Taylor Mac T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is an American playwright. He won the 2014 Obie Award for Best New American Play for his plays '' Appropriate'' and '' An Octoroon''. His plays '' Gloria'' and '' Everybody'' were finalists for the 2016 and 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama respectively. He was named a MacArthur Fellow for 2016. Early life Jacobs-Jenkins was born in Washington, DC. His father, Benjamin Jenkins, is a retired dentist and his mother, Patricia Jacobs, is a business consultant. He graduated from Princeton University in 2006, with a major in anthropology, and earned a master's degree in performance studies from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2007. He has taught playwriting at the Tisch School and also at Princeton. He graduated from the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwrights Program at The Juilliard School. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Musical Theatre Composers
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University Of The Arts (Philadelphia) Faculty
University of the Arts or University of Arts may refer to: * University of the Arts (Philadelphia) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States * University of the Arts London in London, England, United Kingdom China * Jilin University of Arts in China * Nanjing University of the Arts in China Germany * Berlin University of the Arts * University of the Arts Bremen * Folkwang University of the Arts in the Ruhr Area * Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design Japan * Kyoto City University of Arts * Kyoto Saga University of Arts * Kyoto University of the Arts * Nagoya University of Arts * Osaka University of Arts * Tokyo University of the Arts Romania * Bucharest National University of Arts * George Enescu National University of Arts Switzerland * University of the Arts Bern * Zurich University of the Arts Taiwan * National Taiwan University of Arts in New Taipei * Taipei National University of the Arts in Taipei City * Tainan National University of the Arts Other countries * Univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oberlin Conservatory Of Music Alumni
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Bard College Alumni
In Celtic cultures, a bard is a professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or chieftain) to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities. With the decline of a living bardic tradition in the modern period, the term has loosened to mean a generic minstrel or author (especially a famous one). For example, William Shakespeare and Rabindranath Tagore are respectively known as "the Bard of Avon" (often simply "the Bard") and "the Bard of Bengal". Oxford Dictionary of English, s.v. ''bard'', n.1. In 16th-century Scotland, it turned into a derogatory term for an itinerant musician; nonetheless it was later romanticised by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832). Etymology The English term ''bard'' is a loan word from the Celtic languages: Gaulish: ''bardo-'' ('bard, poet'), mga, bard and ('bard, poet'), wlm, bardd ('singer, poet'), Middle Breton: ''barz'' ('m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation issues awards in each of two separate competitions: * One open to citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada. * The other to citizens and permanent residents of Latin America and the Caribbean. The Latin America and Caribbean competition is currently suspended "while we examine the workings and efficacy of the program. The U.S. and Canadian competition is unaffected by this suspension." The performing arts are excluded, although composers, film directors, and choreographers are eligible. The fellowships are not open to students, only to "advanced professionals in mid-career" such as published authors. The fellows may spend the money as they see fit, as the purpose is to give fellows "b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Larson
Jonathan David Larson (February 4, 1960 – January 25, 1996) was an American composer, lyricist and playwright most famous for writing the musicals ''Rent'' and '' Tick, Tick... Boom!'', which explored the social issues of multiculturalism, substance use disorder, and homophobia. He received three posthumous Tony Awards and a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Drama for ''Rent''. Early years Larson was born in Mt. Vernon, New York to Nanette ( Notarius) and Allan Larson of White Plains, New York, on February 4, 1960. His family was Jewish. His grandfather, Bernard Isaac Lazarson, who was born in Russia, changed the family surname from Lazarson. At an early age, Larson played the trumpet and tuba, sang in his school's choir, and took piano lessons. His early musical influences and his favorite rock musicians included Elton John, The Doors, The Who, and Billy Joel, as well as the classic composers of musical theatre, especially Stephen Sondheim. He also loved Pete Townshend, The Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of The Arts (Philadelphia)
The University of the Arts (UArts) is a private art university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its campus makes up part of the Avenue of the Arts in Center City, Philadelphia. Dating back to the 1870s, it is one of the oldest schools of art or music in the United States. The university is composed of two colleges and two Divisions: the College of Art, Media & Design; the College of Performing Arts; the Division of Liberal Arts; and the Division of Continuing Studies. It is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. In addition, the School of Music is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music. History The university was created in 1985 by a merger between the Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts and the Philadelphia College of Art, two schools that trace their origins to the 1870s. In 1870, the Philadelphia Musical Academy was created. In 1877, the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music was founded. After graduating from South Phil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Woman Like Me (film)
''A Woman Like Me'' is a 2015 documentary directed by Elizabeth Giamatti and Alex Sichel. It runs parallel to the real-life story of Sichel, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2011. The fictional story of Anna Seashell, played by Lili Taylor, is of a woman who is given the same diagnosis. The documentary follows Alex as she uses narrative film to show her journey through terminal illness as it surrounds her and her families life. Synopsis ''A Woman Like Me'' is a documentary about co-director Alex Sichel's navigation through having terminal breast cancer and how it has inspired her to try and embrace death as mentioned in Buddhist philosophy. The film is composed of home video Home video is prerecorded media sold or rented for home viewing. The term originates from the VHS and Betamax era, when the predominant medium was videotapes, but has carried over to optical disc formats such as DVD, Blu-ray and streaming me ...s, one on one sit downs with Alex's family; hus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Skin Of Our Teeth
''The Skin of Our Teeth'' is a play by Thornton Wilder that won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It opened on October 15, 1942, at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, before moving to the Plymouth Theatre on Broadway on November 18, 1942. It was produced by Michael Myerberg and directed by Elia Kazan with costumes by Mary Percy Schenck. The play is a three-part allegory about the life of mankind, centering on the Antrobus family of the fictional town of Excelsior, New Jersey. The epic comedy-drama is noted as among the most heterodox of classic American comedies — it broke nearly every established theatrical convention. The phrase used as the title comes from the King James Bible, Job 19:20: "My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth." Overview The main characters of the play are George and Maggie Antrobus (from el, άνθρωπος (anthropos), "human" or "person"), their two children, Henry and Gladys, and Sabina, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
