Dangerous Curve, 052007

setlist

lloyd rodgers group
catastrophe of meaning (1997)
the swing (1979)

bruno cilloniz, percussion, gary hung, electric violin, john glenn, electric bass,
melissa rodgers, trumpet, lloyd rodgers, keyboard,

brother mallard
program to be selected from:
für alina(1976), spiegel im spiegel (1978) arvo part
clapping music(1972), steve reich
the continuing story of counterpoint, david borden
part one (1976)
part five (1977)

lauren baba, electric and acoustic violins, ralph d’ignazio: electric guitar, bass guitar, norman weston and john marr: keyboards

paul bailey ensemble

program to be selected from:
cheap admiration (2005) , fearless leader (2006) , principle of sufficient irritation (2005) , life’s too short (2007) libretto

nicole baker, mezzo soprano, paul bailey, trombone, paul cummings, bass, bruce gallego, electric guitar, eric hendrickson, keyboards, scott mcintosh, clarinet, sean mcdermott, tenor, carl stronach, electric bass

Brother Mallard

Brother Mallard is a four person ensemble assembled by John Marr in order to perform The Continuing Story of Counterpoint   (TCSOC) by David Borden.  Aside from "Part Nine," none of the remaining eleven movements have ever been performed on the West Coast.  John Marr was introduced to the music of David Borden during composition studies with Dr. William Alves at Claremont Graduate University.  John contacted Mr. Borden during June of 2006 and expressed an interest in obtaining scores for TCSOC for study and possible performance.  Mr. Borden was very supportive of the idea, and asked John which movements he would like.  John responded with four movements that he believed that he could get performed.  He received the score and parts and began assembling the ensemble.  John first contacted his colleague at Saddleback College, Norm Weston, who was immediately open to the idea.  Lauren Baba, a music major at Saddleback who has performed with the Saddleback College New Music Ensemble, was very enthusiastic about performing new music.  Finally, Ralph d'Ignazio, a former student of John's, was asked to join because he had already learned a good portion of "Part Five" on his own.
Borden originally wrote the music for his group, Mother Mallard (the inspiration for Brother Mallard's nom de plume ) which consisted of three keyboardists .  The ensemble currently consists of Lauren Baba (Acoustic and Electric Violins), Ralph d'Ignazio (Electric and Bass Guitars) Norman Weston (Keyboards and Piano) and John Marr (Keyboards and Piano).  In addition to works by Borden, Brother Mallard has expanded its repertiore to other composers .  The group's ultimate goal is to create a functioning ensemble that will present new music to all listening ears.

lloyd rodgers

lloyd rodgers is a composer/performer/conductor/video installation artist and music director. he has been very active on a national and international level for over 30 years. he is an affiliate artist with the orange county center for contemporary art and is associated with the mysterious committee for safety and inspection. he was the director of the cartesian reunion memorial orchestra, a po-mo composer/performer collective that was very active in so-cal from 1979 to 1992. the crmo performed in large and small venues and collaborated with the rudy perez performance ensemble, the los angeles chamber ballet, and others, performing at the japan america theater, the john anson ford theater, ucla's royce hall and wadsworth theater. aside from composing concert pieces for the crmo he collaborated on twelve major pieces with the perez ensemble and two large scale works with the lacb; the full evening ballet, the little prince and the exotic ballet-opera, orpheus, both premiered at the jat. since 1992 he has been directing his own ensemble with recent performances at cal state fullerton, cal state long beach, dizzy's in san diego, the orange county center for contemporary art and the bank in nyc. recent work includes 'the cathedral of chemical equilibrium' a large scale csi installation involving two video projections, music, gambling, second hand smoke, auto-voyeurism, 55 pornographic quotes, all organized around the the fibonacci series; 'catastrophe of meaning', a multi-media theater piece including two 65 minute video projections, electronic music, live music and 'go-go' dancer; two electronic pieces commissioned by choreographer/dancer karen goodman and 'the black book - a private music', 'guns into mexico' is the most recent of large scale multi-media works he has developed in collaboration with nyc video artist paul greenhaw. he has taught at ucla, the university of michigan and is currently on the faculty at csuf.