Saturday, April 8, 2006 at 8pm
FlynnSpace
World Premiere / An Evening of Music and Video
Jamie Masefield and the Jazz Mandolin Project
A Reflection on Leo Tolstoy's "How Much Land Does a Man Need?"
Presented by The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts.
FlynnSpace: Open Seating; $22 adults, $18 students.
Other performance in this run: Sunday at 7 pm
Mandolinist Jamie Masefield unveils a new ambitious work by telling Tolstoy's short story How Much Land Does a Man Need? through narration, video, and a new original score for his renowned group, the Jazz Mandolin Project. The story takes on a modern context by the inclusion of video footage of American lifestyles and landscapes, edited to follow the storyline. While traversing the U.S. on tour in 2005, Masefield collected relevant footage with a handheld video camera that offers a modern American visual treatment of a Russian story written 120 years ago and gives a realistic keyhole view to the bumpy, fast life of a traveling musician. James Joyce said, "How Much Land Does a Man Need? is the greatest literature the world knows," and Masefield is staking a claim that this story of man's greed for land and Tolstoy, himself, are relevant and valuable to us today.
Media Support from Seven Days.
(Artist line-ups and opening acts are subject to change.)
