Frank London in concert at SCSU

[DAVID CHEVAN <dchevan...>]

Press Release

Frank London to Perform in Concert with SCSU Creative Music Orchestra


On Tuesday, April 9, at 8:00 p.m., the SCSU Creative Music Orchestra, will
host a concert featuring with composer-in-residence Frank London in the
Charles Garner Recital Hall (Room 115) in Engleman Hall of Southern
Connecticut State University in New Haven, Connecticut.

For the past month Frank  London has been working with the ensemble on his
original approach to improvisation and composition.  The group has had to
learn a complex musical language and approach that comes directly from the
"downtown" New York improvisers world.  The concert will feature Mr. London
conducting, performing and working with the ensemble to create his unique
soundscape.

Admission to the concert is $3.00, and tickets will be available at the door
on a first-come basis.  For more information about this event please call
David Chevan, director of the SCSU Creative Music Orchestra, at (203)
392-6630.

Frank London is a trumpet player and composer whose musical experiences have
been ultra-eclectic. A founding member of the Klezmatics and the Hasidic New
Wave, his most recent recordings include: Invocations (a recital of
cantorial pieces for trumpet), Frank London's Klezmer Brass All Stars' "Di
Shikere kapelye", Nigunim (with Klezmatics singer Lorin Sklamberg and
pianist Uri Caine), The Debt (a CD of his film and theater music), Hasidic
New Wave's Psycho-Semitic, and the Klezmatics' The Well. Musicologist Joel
Ruben called him "the person most responsible for pushing the Klezmer
revival in the world beat and fusion with rock and jazz", and journalist
Harvey Pekar said, 'London is a passionate intelligent soloist, one of the
best jazz trumpeters to emerge since 1980." Mr. London's theatre, dance and
film scores include music for the Czech-American Marionette Co.'s Golem,
Tamar Rogoff's Ivye Project, Great Small Works' Memoirs of Gluckel of
Hameln, the Public Theater's production of Tony Kushner's A Dybbuk, The
Shvitz, John Sayles' the Brother from Another Planet and Hombres Armados,
Yvonne Rainer's MURDER and murder, and many others. He has performed and
recorded with John Zorn, LL Cool J, Mel Torme, Itzhak Perlman, Lester
Bowie's Brass Fantasy, LaMonte Young, They Might Be Giants, David Byrne, Gal
Costa, Mark Ribot and Jane Siberry.

Members of the press who wish to interview Frank London for this event are
asked to contact David Chevan at 203-392-6630.


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