CalPerformances presents WORDLESS! featuring Art Spiegelman & the Phillip Johnston Sextet
2014-10-10
Zellerbach Hall Auditorium
U.C. Berkeley, Bancroft Way at Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA
8:00 PM, Friday, October 10, 2014

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WORDLESS!, an innovative hybrid of slides, talk, and musical performance features celebrated cartoonist Art Spiegelman in collaboration with acclaimed jazz composer Phillip Johnston. Spiegelman leads audiences on a personal tour of the first graphic novels – —silent picture stories made by early-20th-century masters like Frans Masereel, Lynd Ward, and Milt Gross— – accompanied by an all-new score by Johnston, who performs with his sextet. In navigating “the battle between words and pictures,” Spiegelman smashes at the hyphen between high and low art, featuring a new work drawn specifically for this project called “Shaping Thought!”

[8:06 PM lights down, announcements]

1. [8:m PM] [Introduction]
2. [8:m PM] [segment on A.B. Frost]
3. [8:m PM] [segment on Frans Masereel]
4. [8:m PM] [segment on H.M. Bateman]
5. [8:m PM] [segment on Lynd Wand]
6. [8:m PM] [segment on Otto Nickel]
7. [8:m PM] [segment on Milt Gross]
8. [9:m PM] [segment on Si Lewen]
9. [9:m PM] [segment on Wilhelm Busch
10. [9:m PM] [segment on Art's own work]
    [show ends 9:36 PM]

• Joe Fiedler: trombone;
• Mike Hashim: baritone saxophone;
• Rob Garcia: drums;
• Dave Hofstra: contrabass;
• Phillip Johnston: soprano saxophone;
• Neal Kirkwood: piano, melodica.

• Art Spiegelman: cartoonist, speaker;
• two sign language interpreters, unidentified.

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