Text by Local 802/J4JA
THE GIRLS IN THE BAND is a new film that tells the poignant, untold stories of female jazz and big band instrumentalists and their fascinating, groundbreaking journeys from the late 1930s to the present day.
Directed by Judy Chaikin
Genre: Documentary
Time: 81 minutes
Language: English
Country: USA
Date: Thursday through Saturday, May 9, 10 & 11, 2013
Venue: CLARA VON AICH MUSIC ROOM (218 East 25th Street, New York, NY 10010, 212-686-4220)
Time: reception at 7pm, film screening at 8pm
Ticket: $75 (There is limited seating for this event—only 75 seats per show. Reserve your tickets todayby calling 212-686-4220)
Joinus for anevening of musical and visual delights from one of Europe’s finest opera companies
filmed at the world’s largest floating stage in Bregenz, Austria.
Set in 1789 at the dawn of revolutionary France,the aristocracy revels and the citizenry groans.Torn between two sides, the poet André Chénier is adored by his rich patrons for his touching verse and yet he is a revolutionary at heart.
Date: Saturday, April 20, 2013
Time: 9:30pm
Venue: Howard Gilman Theater (144 West 65th Street, New York, NY 10023, 212-875-5610))
Ticket: buy tickets
Date: Monday, March 4, 2013
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: Bam Rose Cinemas (30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11217)
Ticket: $12
Inspired by the aesthetic of the intrepid recordists at film and record label Sublime Frequencies, Saharan Frequencies series explores the sounds of North Africa as captured by two of the label’s key directors Hisham Mayet and Olivia Wyatt and their influences. Presented in conjunction with Mic Check on BAM’s mainstage.
“The entraining beats and politically engaged music of famed Moroccan quintet Nass El Ghiwane is the subject of director Ahmed El Maanouni’s 1981 concert-doc Trances, which opens BAMcinématek’s three-Monday Saharan Frequencies series dedicated to the music of North Africa. The film has been restored by the World Cinema Foundation at the behest of Martin Scorsese, whose Last Temptation of Christ it influenced. Nass El Ghiwane’s immense popularity also permeates Hisham Mayet’s Musical Brotherhoods From the Trans-Saharan Highway, a 2008 look at the spectacular traditional and contemporary ensembles kicking out their sacred jams night after night in Marrakech’s crowded, colorful, and fragrant Jemaa Al Fna square. Past and present dovetail dynamically in the two films, which will be discussed by Mayet and music journalist Byron Coley following Brotherhoods’s screening.” — By Richard Gehr
