My Coma Dreams: Jazz Theater Work Starring Fred Hersch
Herbst Theatre at the San Francisco War Memorial Building (401 Van Ness Ave San Francisco, CA 94102)
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The last date listed for My Coma Dreams was Sunday October 30, 2011 / 7:00pm.
2 Goldstar Member Reviews
Unclemab
I had never heard him before so didn't know what to expect. WOW!!!!! I'm so glad I went I'll keep and eye and ear out for more of him.Written on Oct 31 2011
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Shelley Gordon
The music was wonderful. The text was an annoyance and a distraction from the music and the feeling evoked by the music.Written on Oct 31 2011
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More Information About My Coma Dreams
Website
http://sfperformances.org/performances/1112/FredHersch.html
Quotes & Highlights
- See a clip from a film about the project.
Description
My Coma Dreams
Animation and Graphic Design by Sarah Wickliffe
Conceived, Written and Directed by Herschel Garfein
In a career spiked with groundbreaking innovations, My Coma Dreams marks a frank new direction for Fred Hersch. This work is an intensely personal exploration based on eight dreams and nightmares experienced by Hersch during a two-month coma in 2008, staged with animation, graphics, text and guest actor/singer Michael Winther. Conceived, written and directed by Herschel Garfein.
Proclaimed by Vanity Fair “the most arrestingly innovative pianist in jazz over the last decade or so,” Fred Hersch balances his internationally recognized instrumental skills with significant achievements as a composer, bandleader, and theatrical conceptualist, as well as remaining an in-demand collaborator with other noted bandleaders and vocalists.
As a solo pianist (he was the first artist in the 75-year history of New York’s legendary Village Vanguard to play week-long engagements as a solo pianist — his second featured run is documented on the 2011 release, Alone at the Vanguard); as leader of a widely praised trio whose Whirl found its way onto numerous 2010 best-recordings-of-the-year lists; and as the impetus behind the ambitious 2011 production, My Coma Dreams, a full-evening work for 11 instruments, actor/singer and animation/multimedia — Hersch has fully lived up to the approbation of the New York Times who, in a featured Sunday Magazine article, praised him as “singular among the trailblazers of their art, a largely unsung innovator of this borderless, individualistic jazz— a jazz for the 21st century.”
About the Ticket Supplier: San Francisco Performances
Founded in 1979, San Francisco Performances is the Bay Area's leading independent presenter of chamber music, vocal and instrumental recitals, jazz and contemporary dance. Under the artistic direction of its founder, Ruth Felt, the organization presents internationally acclaimed and emerging performing artists, introduces innovative programs, and builds new and diversified audiences for the arts through education and outreach activities that also strengthen the local performing arts community.