Podcast summary

A female boxer, a madwoman stuck in Purgatory, and an irreverent angel meet across space and time to explore redemption and forgiveness in this concert reading of a work-in-progress adapted from Wolverton's novel-in-poems. Cherry plays keyboards and conducts a jazz quartet to accompany the actors who will bring to life the poetry and song.

Performed by: D'Lo, Marisol de Jesus, O-Lan Jones, Phil Meyer, Cesili Williams and David Ornette Cherry with Organic Roots: Justo Almario, reeds; Ollie Elder Jr., bass; Don Littleton, drums, percussion.

Participant(s) Bio

David Ornette Cherry, winner of the "2003 ASCAP-Chamber Music America Award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music," is composer, arranger, and band leader. The ambient music streaming through his childhood was generated by the early collaborations of his dad, Don Cherry, with Ornette Coleman and the musicians who visited his parents' Mariposa Avenue home in Los Angeles. Cherry studied music composition at Bishop College in Dallas and concentrated on world music at California Institute of the Arts. While jazz remains both the root and sustenance of his sound, he often incorporates the sounds of the world in what he calls "multi-kulti" music. His background includes performances with Don Cherry, Ed Blackwell, Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins, Nana Vasconcelos, Olatunji, Hassan Hakmoun, Carlos Ward, Jim Pepper, Collin Walcott, Wadada Leo Smith, and Justo Almario.

www.davidornettecherry.com

Terry Wolverton is the author of six books, including Embers, a novel in poems--a finalist for the PEN USA Litfest Poetry Award; the memoir Insurgent Muse, named one of the "Best Books of 2002" by the Los Angeles Times, and winner of the 2003 Publisher's Triangle Judy Grahn Award; and the novel Bailey's Beads, finalist in the American Library Association's Gay and Lesbian Book Awards. She has also published three collections of poetry: Black Slip, Mystery Bruise, and Shadow and Praise, and edited numerous literary compilations.

With early roots in experimental feminist theater, from 1977 to 1989 she created numerous individual and collaborative works of performance art. She has also collaborated as a writer with choreographer Heidi Duckler and Collage Dance Theater. Terry is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, most recently, a CAC Fellowship for Poetry and a COLA Fellowship from the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.

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