A Live Performance, You Have To Be There to experience it. Experience the music,
In 2017, The Summer Series at the Mann Center presented A Space Odyssey. Honoring the legacy of Colonel Guion Bluford, Jr. the first African American in space, and a World Premiere by Nolan Williams Jr. “Hold Fast to Dreams,” in steadfast time a collective moment of music, art, and science.
“Footage from Bluford’s Space Shuttle mission in the photography, and video that started the show took a wild interpretation into the movement and the music being played by the Philadelphia Orchestra.”
the lights and Action. A Space Odyssey with the Philadelphia Orchestra from 2017, imagine the movement of a full orchestra.What that symbolizes for the audience and the musicians all playing to a theme of space travel.
Up Close & Far Away
Symphony Magazine 2020- The Magazine of The League of American Orchestras
“The Philadelphia Orchestra’s March 12 livestreamed concert made no attempt to hide the empty seats, lending an enormous poignancy to the event.“
Yannick addresses the audience,
“This music that we cherish, that we love, that inspires us, has survived hundreds of years of hardship and struggles, I know that soon we are going to be back sharing this music with all of you as a great community, as a joyful event. But as we now share with you virtually, I know it will help us through these strange and difficult times for the entire world, helping us feel together on this beautiful planet Earth.”
A Classic New Yorker Cartoon
If Everything is Absurd, then Nothing is Absurd.
Broadway Musicals
A digital painting from the sketches of live performances.
La Belle et Bête par JEAN COCTEAU
L’enfance croit ce qu’on lui raconte et ne le met pas
ce ne pas de doute, elle croit qu’une rose qu’un cueille peut attirer
des dames dans une famille.
Beauty and the Beast, 2017, Media Musical Theater
Elle croit que les moins d’une Bête Humaine qui tue se mettent à fumer et que cette bête en a honte lorsqu’une jeune fille habite sa maison. Elle croit mille autres chose bien naïves. C’est un peu de cette naíveté que je vous dire quatre mots magiques veritable, “Sésame ouvre tous toi” de l’enfance
IL était un fois[…]
Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage, Quintessence Theater 2016.