Winner of the 2019 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Music, OKLAHOMA! on Broadway reimagined the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic for modern times. Directed by Daniel Fish with orchestrations by Daniel Kluger. Music Direction and Vocal Arrangements by Nathan Koci.
More Info: OklahomaBroadway.com
Daniel Fish's reimagining of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical OKLAHOMA! hits NYC after many years in the making. We made this show at Bard Summerscape festival in 2015, and we're all excited to finally bring it to the city. It's a beautiful and weird musical to start with, and our production just slightly nudges it into an even starker and more distilled version of itself. Re-scored for small folk band by the amazing Daniel Kluger, a band full of folk and new music all stars (Eleonore Oppenheim, Joe Brent, Brett Parnell, Hilary Hawke, Sarah Goldfeather, and Leah Coloff), choreo by John Heginbotham, music direction by yours truly. It'll be a great time.
Previews start Sept. 27
Official opening is Oct. 7
Runs through Oct. 28
The Head and the Load hits again at the Ruhr Trienalle in Germany. Playing accordion with the Knights once again.
Truly excited to conduct the Wordless Music Orchestra for the first time in this live film score event of Brimstone and Glory. It's part of Celebrate Brooklyn, so it's FREE and will be a really beautiful evening.
From their website:
One of the biggest movie screens in NYC will explode with light, color, and sound during this screening and live orchestral score of BRIMSTONE & GLORY, a documentary from the creative team behind Beasts of the Southern Wild about the National Pyrotechnic Festival in Tultepec, Mexico. Once a year, the festival erupts through the city, temporarily transforming it into a blaze of sparks and flames, and in the climactic "running of the bulls," the bravest participants dance and skip amid toritos discharging fireworks, raining burning ash on everyone. Brimstone & Glory takes us on a wild and cinematic journey through the festival, focusing more on capturing the experience than explaining it. We see a crew member build a giant firework castle only to have it prematurely catch fire, watch abstract super-duper-slowmo shots of eruptions, and even spend time in an ambulance with some reckless cavorters. "Mixing sheer spectacle with human-interest threads, [the film is] a poetical, entrancing documentary." (Variety)
Playing accordion with this stellar big band including all-stars like Nels Cline, Erik Freidlander, John Ellis, Sarah Schoenbeck, Pauling Kim, and more at the Jazz Standard. Two sets both nights, July 17-18, 7:30p/9:30p.
The world premiere of this major new work is performed against the dramatic backdrop of Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. William Kentridge’s latest project combines music, dance, film projections, mechanised sculptures and shadow play to create an imaginative landscape on an epic scale. It tells the untold story of the hundreds of thousands of African porters and carriers who served in British, French and German forces during the First World War.
I'll be playing accordion in this with The Knights, with a small boat strapped to my head.
The Hands Free made a really good record. I am extremely proud of it. We are releasing it to the world on New Amsterdam records, and there's much reason for excitement and celebration. Come listen to us perform the record, along with Mary Halvorson and Robbie Lee.
Playing accordion with The Knights as part of this new theater piece developed by William Kentridge. This is a works-in-progress showing at Mass MoCA and should be really exciting. I am excited. Let's get excited.
Beyond thrilled to be joining my Charleston musical family at this event - curated by Shovels and Rope, presented by Paul Bannister and co. It's such a batch of positive musical and hometown vibes I can't help but be excited. I'll hit with the Garage Cuban Band AND the Shrimp Family Band paying tribute to Tom Petty at the LOW TIDE SOCIAL on Friday night at the festival grounds, then taking in the sounds of all the other more famous people on Sat/Sun.
The New School Chorus, which I direct, presents their annual Spring Concert! Works by Anais Mitchell, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Morten Lauridsen, Hubert Parry, Daniel Messe and more!
John L. Tishman Auditorium
I'll be music directing the 1965 musical Promenade at a reading during the Fornes Symposium being held that day at NYU. Marie Irene Fornes wrote the book and Al Carmines wrote the music. It's absurd and wonderful.
Maira Kalman, Dance Heginbotham, and The Knights (incl. me on accordion) tour this wonderful piece of dance theater to Asheville, NC (Diana Wortham Theater), Durham NC (Duke Performances), and PLOVDIV BULGARIA (Spotlight Festival of American Dance).
March 16-17, 2018 - Diana Wortham Theater, Asheville, NC
March 23-24, 2018 - Duke Performances, Durham, NC
March 28, 2018 - Spotlight Dance Festival, Plovdiv, Bulgaria,
Dance Heginbotham goes South! Piano and accordion with this genuinely wonderful group of dancers, headed to Lafayette, LA.
Playing piano and accordion with Dance Heginbotham. Music by Dana Suesse, Satie, Raymond Scott, and Heitor Villa-Lobos!
The groundhog rides again. Feat. Bill Carson, Ron Wiltrout, Jack Burg, Johnny Gray, Aisha Kenyetta, Kevin Hamilton, Joel Hamilton, Michael Flynn, Elena Moon Park, Amanda Kapasouz, Tyler Ross, Lindsay Holler, and Clint Fore.
It's a night of Charleston beauty and family and music.
Playing horns and accordions with the fabulous Jamie Leonhart, along with a slew of vastly more talented musicians.
Jim Findlay and Philip White and a mess of other intensely talented folks have re-imagined the albums of Bruce Haack to create a rock opera theater piece. I'll be Music Directing as well as playing keyboards and and harmonized trumpet. Click the link for more info because my description will barely scratch the surface.
Jan 8-13, 8pm each night
The Hands Free (myself, James Moore, Eleonore Oppenheim and Caroline Shaw) join forces again to play a handy dandy show at the beautiful Owl Music Parlor. Frikativ string quartet rounds out the bill!
I'm headed to Canada to serve as Associate Music Director on the musical Hadestown this fall. I won't be in a performing role, but this is such a fantastic piece of music and theater and art that you should treat yourself to if you're nearby. The run is Nov. 11 - Dec. 3, 2017.
All the info here: http://www.citadeltheatre.com/show/hadestown/
Wed. Sept 27 7:30pm
Thurs. Sept 28 7:30pm
Fri. Sept 29 7:30pm
Sat. Sept 30 2:30pm
Sat. Sept 30 7:30pm
Over the course of a year, author, illustrator, and avid collector of human experience Maira Kalman kept an online graphic diary for The New York Times called “The Principles of Uncertainty.” In this dance-theater collaboration, choreographer John Heginbotham brings Kalman’s candy-colored musings on travel, beauty, and mortality to fanciful, moving life. Inspired by the various walks the two acclaimed artists took together over many months, The Principles of Uncertainty is a meditation on the objects, memories, friends, and strangers that fill our days. As Kalman herself passes the time onstage, dancers move to music performed live by members of chamber ensemble The Knights in this telescopic vision of everyday wonder.
We present some tidbits of "Principles of Uncertainty" a new piece by John Heginbotham and Maira Kalman, as part of the Guggenheim's "Works & Process" series. Dance Heginbotham + myself and members of The Knights!
Excited to join a really fun bill of awesome folks to premiere James Moore's new accordion piece "Lowlands". It's a beautiful piece based on the old old ballad The Golden Vanity, and involves some audience sing-along, so GET READY.
sept 16 / thesunview.org / 8 pm show / $10
https://www.facebook.com/events/165696260672254/
CARLO COSTA + SEAN ALI + JONATHAN MORITZ /
http://www.carlocostamusic.com/
ANNA RG + LEA BERTUCCI share duo music / fiddle+banjo, saxophone + tapes&loops
and two brand new works :
NATHAN KOCI premieres "Lowlands" by JAMES MOORE / inspired by the ancient ballad The Golden Vanity
ANNA & ELIZABETH premiere "The Wife of Usher's Well" and "Moore's Field" / short films made in collaboration with director/cinematographer JACOB BLUMBERG, and Thomas Brown & Grace Sachi / dance films set to two archival recordings of ballads
there will be pie.
More details TBD, but happy to be a guest with the amazing women of LADAMA as they release their debut album. These are fierce humans making amazing music.
I'm excited about this one. Playing accordion/piano/who-knows-what...
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award-winner John Heginbotham and acclaimed illustrator Maira Kalman join forces for the world premiere of The Principles of Uncertainty. Imaginative set design meets whimsical dance theatre, promising a delightful evening full of wit and charm.
The Principles of Uncertainty is an evening-length dance theatre work choreographed and directed by Heginbotham, inspired by Kalman’s written and visual art, set to an original score composed, arranged, and curated by Brooklyn Rider and Silk Road Ensemble’s Colin Jacobsen.
Back in Charleston for a minute and playing with my longtime collaborator and dear friend Bill Carson from 6-9pm at Harold's Cabin! We'll play folk songs and whatnot on the accordion and guitar.
BRIC Arts and Celebrate Brooklyn present Jason Moran and the Wordless Music Orchestra performing a screening of the movie Selma with a live film score. Prospect Park Bandshell - Free!
I'll be playing horn in a brass ensemble accompanying Joy Askew at her CD release show for her new record QUEEN VICTORIA. The original record features the Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band, and is really a wonderful mixing of worlds.
James Moore is writing me a solo accordion piece called "Lowlands" and I'm really excited to premiere it on the Infrequent Seams Festival - an outcropping of James Ilgenfritz's record label of the same name. $15.
PROGRAM/PERFORMERS:
Melissa Hughes / Philip White
Bhob Rainey / James Ilgenfritz
Anna Vitale reads from Detroit Detroit
Chris Cochrane / Stuart Popejoy
Lester St Louis
Josh Sinton
HOT DATE: Shayna Dulberger / Chris Welcome
Kathy Supové, Jennifer Choi, & James Moore: World Premiere from James Ilgenfritz
Anagram Solos: Dan Blake (music by Marcello Toledo)
Anagram Solos: Nathan Koci ("Lowlands" by James Moore)
Roberta Michel: "Happy Days" by Arthur Kampela
Joe Brent's amazing mandolin-violin-bass trio (w/Sara Caswell and Andrew Ryan), 9 Horses, plays a show of original compositions at LPR. I'll sit in on piano on a few tunes. Opening up for them is Goldfeather, playing Sarah Goldfeather's original tunes from our new CD released last fall!
Presented by Anti-Social Music, PEOPSSONGS is an a capella, choral song cycle with texts drawn from a series of portraits by the artist Fly, one of the most prominent graphic artists to come out of the Lower East Side squatter scene, documenting LES characters, musicians and artists, and the drifters, visionaries, and charlatans passing through that world. Her longest-running project is a series called “PEOPS": single-page, head-and-shoulders portraits of the characters and scenesters she's met, surrounded by transcriptions of her conversations with them during the sitting. A few are well known – John Perry Barlow, Richard Hell, John Zorn (who says "Her visions should be read every morning instead of your daily newspaper") – but most are simply members of the transient underground. Composer Franz Nicolay went through Fly's PEOPS archive, selected fifteen of the portraits, and edited their words down to provide the texts he has set. This work was made possible by a residency at the Rensing Arts Center.
