Description
Tickets & Tables start at $150
Ticket Order Form:
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Evening Schedule
5:00 p.m.
Cocktails & Dinner, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
8:00 p.m.
Special Performance of Block Ice & Propane, Iseman Theater
9:30 p.m.
Post-performance Dessert Reception and Toast
About the Evening
The evening will begin with a private cocktail hour and dinner at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The Kick-Off Gala dinner will feature as special guests 2014 Festival artists including spoken word artist Lemon Andersen (County of Kings), dancer and choreographer Adele Myers (Einstein’s Happiest Thought) and Reggie Wilson whose work Moses(es) is inspired by Zora Neale Hurston’s 1939 novel Moses: Man of the Mountain. The Beinecke Library’s archive includes the Zora Neale Hurston Collection, which will be on display for Gala attendees viewing.
Immediately following dinner, guests will attend a special performance in the Iseman Theater of Erik Friedlander’s Block Ice & Propane, an Americana-inspired evening of music about his travels across the US. Inspired by family road trips across America with his famous MacArthur Award winning father Lee Friedlander, Erik devised this evening as a reflection on the sounds of our country. Photographs of Lee Friedlander and Milt Hinton are on display in an extraordinary exhibit at the Yale University Art Gallery.
The evening will conclude with a post-performance desert reception and toast with Erik Friedlander and other Festival artists. For sponsors and table buyers there will be a private curator lead tour of the exhibition before the celebration kicks off.
About the Featured Artist
ERIK FRIEDLANDER: BLOCK ICE & PROPANE
Block Ice & Propane is a highly personal multimedia work with Friedlander’s solo cello compositions at the core. Based on recollections of childhood family car vacations, the piece evokes truck stops, long, lonely highways, and stark panoramas. Lyric, plainspoken, and emotional, Friedlander’s stories and music are accomplished by projection of photographs taken by his father, famed photographer Lee Friedlander. Loose and meditative, the work is both valedictory and authoritative.
JAZZ LIVES: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF LEE FRIEDLANDER AND MILT HINTON
This exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery brings together Lee Friedlander’s and Milt Hinton’s extraordinary images that capture the people, spirit, and history of jazz. Friedlander’s photographs of New Orleans musicians were made during a series of visits to the city from the late 1950s to the 1990s. Renowned bassist Milt Hinton’s photos were shot over the course of his musical career, which spanned the 20th century, and offer an insider’s view of the jazz scene. Organized by students, including musicians from the Yale Undergraduate Jazz Collective, this show features performances by student, faculty, and community jazz groups throughout its run.
A tour of the exhibit is available as part of the Festival on June 17.