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Asian Improv aRts 20th Anniversary ODC Theater

By admin ⋅ July 18, 2008 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

Francis Wong’s Persistence of Vision Project
Saturday, September 29, 8 pm ODC Theater $15 adv $18 at the door

Francis Wong, composer, leader, saxophone
Tatsu Aoki, acoustic bass, shamisen (Japanese 3 string lute)
Elliot Humberto Kavee, drums
Jon Jang, piano

With special guests

Lawson Fusao Inada, poet, vocals
Genny Lim, poet, vocals
John Carlos Perea, electric bass
Hafez Modirzadeh, saxophone

This program of Francis Wong compositions will be feature works for quartet and sextet featuring Wong with longtime musical co-conspirators Aoki, Jang, Kavee, Modirzadeh and Perea as well as interdisciplinary collaborations with Lim and Inada.

”I choose for my work to build community and to seek out how I, as an artist can meet the challenges that our community faces. In the Asian American community, the biggest challenge is continuity of culture and the impact of assimilation.

“Compositions are vehicles for memory – improvisation keeps these memories alive and vital.”

more info click http://www.asianimprov.org/persistenceofvision.htm