{"id":1840,"date":"2018-09-26T23:06:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T06:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jessegilbert.net\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2018-09-26T23:15:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T06:15:08","slug":"rosa-parks-angelcity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jessegilbert.net\/cms\/1840\/rosa-parks-angelcity\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosa Parks Oratorio at Angel City Jazz Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse will create live visuals for Wadada Leo Smith&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/wadadaleosmith.com\/project\/rosa-parks-oratorio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rosa Parks Oratorio<\/a> at RedCat for the <a href=\"http:\/\/angelcityjazz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Angel City Jazz Festival<\/a>, October 14th, 2018.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>The Rosa Parks oratorio employs the song-form as composition that conveys a philosophical and spiritual narrative about Wadada&#8217;s vision of Rosa Parks.\u00a0 The oratorio is concerned with ideas of freedom, liberty and justice.\u00a0 This meditation is centered around the Civil Rights movement.\u00a0 The stage setting is presented with the use of lights as a major conveyor of emotion and scenery with the projection of video images reconnecting history with the present.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Vocals &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Carmina Escobar\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0|\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>Karen Parks<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 |\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>Min Xiao-Fen<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nStrings &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Shalini Vijayan<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>Mona Tian<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<strong>\u00a0Andrew McIntosh<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>Ashley Walters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trumpets &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Wadada Leo Smith<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>Kris Tiner\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 |\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>Graham Haynes<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Louis Lopez<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>drums &#8211; <strong>Pheeroan Aklaff<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 |\u00a0 electronics &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Hardedge<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>dance &#8211; <strong>Oguri<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>\u00a0|\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0live video &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Jesse Gilbert<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Venue: Roy &amp; Edna Disney\/CalArts Theater (RedCat)<br \/>\n631 W. 2nd Street<br \/>\nLos Angeles, CA\u00a0 90012<\/p>\n<p>Festival Site:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/angelcityjazz.com\/wadada-leo-smith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/angelcityjazz.com\/wadada-leo-smith<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse will create live visuals for Wadada Leo Smith&#8217;s Rosa Parks Oratorio at RedCat for the Angel City Jazz Festival, October 14th, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessegilbert.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessegilbert.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessegilbert.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessegilbert.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessegilbert.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jessegilbert.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1847,"href":"https:\/\/jessegilbert.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions\/1847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessegilbert.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessegilbert.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessegilbert.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessegilbert.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}