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FOR IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE: NEW YORK CITY
1687,Inc. presents The Murder of Maryann Measles and the Murderers
Maryann Measles was murdered in 1997 in Litchfield, Connecticut. She was thirteen years old. At the time, Maryann was hanging out with a group that was mostly in their late teens and twenties. Eight of these people, five men and three women were arrested for her murder in 2002. The trials started in 2004. Improvised and notated music with words, police records and newspaper accounts describe the motives, circumstances, investigations, punishment and possible aftermath. Seats with tables can be reserved for drawing during the performance.
For a newspaper's account:
Lenore Von Stein, Composer, Soprano
Beth Griffith, Soprano
Andrew Bolotowsky, Flutes
Bern Nix, Guitar
Sunday, October 17, 20047 PM Admission is $10
Spring Studio, New York City 64 Spring Street, at Lafayette Street, downstairs
Information: 212-226-7240 or
#6 train to Spring St, R to Prince, F to Broadway Lafayette
Lenore Von Stein (singer/composer) makes collages using a mixture of musical disciplines and media. Von Stein’s most recent release is “I Haven’t Been Able To Lie And Tell The Truth" on the 1687 label. “Stark musical reality infused with energy.” Amanda MacBlane, New Music Box “Somewhere between Cathy Berberian’s microtones and Ella Fitzgerald’s silky scats" Gene Santoro, Pulse "Surreal and uninhibited, strikingly offbeat lyrics, subtler, ever innovative.” Kyle Gann, The Village Voice
Beth Griffith (soprano) has appeared with Sequentia, Musikfabrik, Ensemble13, L’Art pour L’Art, Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Paris Nouvel Orchestra Philharmonique and has worked with composers John Cage, Morton Feldman, Mauricio Kagel and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Her one-hour, solo recording of Feldman’s “Three Voices” was awarded the German Record Critics Prize.
Bern Nix held one of the two guitar seats (from 1975 to 1987) in the original edition(s) of Ornette Coleman's band Prime Time. Nix's album as leader "Alarms and Excursions" on New World Records features Fred Hopkins and Newman Baker.
With Andrew Bolotowsky on Flutes
About Spring Studio: Considered by many artists to be the best place to draw in New York City, Spring Studio is a professional art studio offering ongoing life drawing sessions 7 days a week. Located in downtown Manhattan on the edge of SoHo, on the colorful and busy corner of Spring and Lafayette Streets, the studio celebrated its twelfth anniversary of year-round sketch classes this year. Works by participating artists are exhibited monthly.
The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, funds this performance in part.
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