CREATE Festival
Saturday, April 8
Seminar
1:00pm–3:00pm
A dialogue illustrating Wadada Leo Smith’s music, with a focus on the compositions being performed during the festival, with video images by Jesse Gilbert.
Concert
7:00pm
1. Lamar Smith Experiment
Lamar Smith — guitar
William Brennan — guitar
Bentley Lewis — guitar
2. New Dalta Ahkri
Wadada Leo Smith — trumpet
Dwight Andrews — saxophones/flutes
Bobby Naughton — vibraphone
The Earth, a blue sanctuary of translucent light: Gardens of Fire-flowers, Underground Seas and Pomegranate Lagoons
3. Mbira
Wadada Leo Smith — trumpet
Min Xiao Fen — pipa and voice
Pheeroan akLaff — drums and percussion
Dark Lady of the Sonnets
Mbira / RedKoral Quartet / Jesse Gilbert – video artist
The Montgomery Bus Boycott: 381 Days: Fire (from Rosa Parks Oratorio)
4. RedKoral Quartet
Shalini Vijayan — violin
Mona Tian — violin
Lorenz Gamma — viola
Ashley Walters — cello
String Quartet No. 9
Ma Rainey
Marian Anderson
Rosa Parks
Angela Davis
String Quartet No. 10
Ellingtonia / Reminiscing in Tempo (Movement No. 1)
Anthony Davis — piano with RedKoral Quartet
5. Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quintet
Wadada Leo Smith — trumpet
Anthony Davis — piano
Ashley Walters — cello
John Lindberg — bass
Pheeroan akLaff — drums
Jesse Gilbert — video artist
America’s National Parks
The Mississippi River: Dark and Deep Dreams Flow the River—a National Memorial Park c. 5000 BC. Eileen Jackson Southern, 1920- 2002: A Literary National Park. Sequoia / Kings Canyon National Parks: The Giant Forest, Great Canyon, Cliffs, Peaks, Waterfalls and Cave Systems. Yosemite: The Glaciers, the Falls, the Wells and the Valley of Goodwill 1890.
World Premiere
All Compositions by Wadada Leo Smith, KIOM Music, ASCAP. except “Crepuscule with Nellie,” “Ruby, My Dear” by Thelonious Monk, and “Round About Midnight” by Thelonious Monk, Bernie Hanighen & Cootie Williams.
CREATE Festival is made possible by the generous funds from Doris Duke Foundation, Creative Capital, and private donations.
Sunday, April 9
Seminar
1:00pm–3:00pm
A dialogue concerning Ankhrasmation, a symbolic music language, with video images by Jesse Gilbert.
Concert
7:00pm
1. Wadada Leo Smith: A Thelonious Reflection
Wadada Leo Smith — trumpet
Crepuscule with Nellie
Monk and his Five Point Ring at The Five Spot
Ruby, My Dear
Round About Midnight
2. The Crystal Sextet
Stephanie Griffin — viola
Gwen Lester — viola
Tanya Kalmanovitch — viola
Jason Kao Hwang — viola
Hardedge — electronics
Wadada Leo Smith — trumpet
Pacifica, Viola Quartet No. 12 with Trumpet and Electronics
3. Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quintet
Wadada Leo Smith — trumpet
Anthony Davis — piano
Ashley Walters — cello
John Lindberg — bass
Pheeroan akLaff — drums
Jesse Gilbert — video artist
America’s National Parks
The Mississippi River: Dark and Deep Dreams Flow the River—a National Memorial Park c. 5000 BC. Eileen Jackson Southern, 1920- 2002: A Literary National Park. Sequoia / Kings Canyon National Parks: The Giant Forest, Great Canyon, Cliffs, Peaks, Waterfalls and Cave Systems. Yosemite: The Glaciers, the Falls, the Wells and the Valley of Goodwill 1890.
World Premiere
All Compositions by Wadada Leo Smith, KIOM Music, ASCAP. except “Crepuscule with Nellie,” “Ruby, My Dear” by Thelonious Monk, and “Round About Midnight” by Thelonious Monk, Bernie Hanighen & Cootie Williams.
CREATE Festival is made possible by the generous funds from Doris Duke Foundation, Creative Capital, and private donations.
A festival dedicated to the music of Wadada Leo Smith. It is a source for premiering new and existing works, and the celebration of information through seminars, video and film presentation.
This is to instill information that will address the historical and inspirational sources of the new works.
CREATE occurs annually in New Haven, CT during the month of April, and later in the year in other regions in the United States. There, CREATE incorporates a community of musicians in those selected sites.
Also, each festival opens with young developing artist’ ensemble, who are assigned to compose a new work to be premiered at CREATE.
Our outreach program for young children and young developing artists takes place through the production of performances and workshops in local nursery schools, kindergarten schools and neighborhood schools of music.
All this is made possible with the support of The Doris Duke Artist Award of 2016–2019.
Friday, December 15
Concert
8:00pm
Lamar Smith / Hardedge / Pheeroan akLaff:
New Piece / South Central L.A.
Lamar Smith—guitar
Hardedge—soundesign
Pheeroan akLaff—drums
Wadada Leo Smith’s Silence:
Silence
Wadada Leo Smith—trumpet
David Leikam—Moog synthesizer
Anthony Davis—piano
RedKoral Quartet:
Pacifica, String Quartet No. 12B
RedKoral Quartet:
Shalini Vijayan—violin
Mona Thian—violin
Andrew McIntosh—viola
Ashley Walters—cello
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Wadada Leo Smith—trumpet
Hardedge—soundesign
BREAK
Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quintet:
America’s National Parks
(New Orleans The National Culture Park USA 1718;
Eileen Jackson Southern, 1920-2002 A Literary National Park; Yellowstone The First National Park and the Spirit of America – The Mountains, Super-Volcano Caldera and Its Ecosystem 1872)
Wadada Leo Smith—trumpet
Anthony Davis—piano
Ashley Walters—cello
John Lindberg—bass
Pheeroan akLaff—drums
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Jesse Gilbert—video artist
Saturday, December 16:
Performance Workshop That Introduces the Ankhrasmation Symbolic Language Scores
All Instruments are welcomed
Fee: $50 per person
1:00pm – 3:00pm
Talk + coffee
Concert
8:00pm
Wadada Leo Smith’s Earth:
Earth
Wadada Leo Smith—trumpet
Motoko Honda—piano
Soo Yeon Lyuh—haegeum
William Winant—percussion
ROVA:
Saxophone Quartet No. 1
Ma’d-Din, in memory of Sufi Master, Cerno Bokar Saalif Taal
Bruce Ackley—soprano & tenor saxophones
Larry Ochs—tenor & sopranino saxophones
Jon Raskin—baritone, alto & sopranino saxophones
Steve Adams—alto & sopranino saxophones
Wadada Leo Smith’s Pacifica:
Koral Reef
Wadada Leo Smith—trumpet
Henry Kaiser—guitar
John Lindberg—bass
BREAK
Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quintet:
America’s National Parks
(The Mississippi River Dark and Deep Dreams Flow the River – a National Memorial Park c. 5000 BC; Sequoia Kings Canyon National Parks The Giant Forest, Great Canyon, Cliffs, Peaks, Waterfalls and Cave Systems 1890; Yosemite The Glaciers, the Falls, the Wells and the Valley of Goodwill 1890)
Wadada Leo Smith—trumpet
Anthony Davis—piano
Ashley Walters—cello
John Lindberg—bass
Pheeroan akLaff—drums
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Jesse Gilbert—video artist