Harvest of my tongue

Music : Composed by Mossa Bildner
Arranged by Charles Gerard

Lyrics: Michele Blondel’s poem, Recueil des Mots de ma Langue.
Sung in French.

Personnel:
Roy Campbell – Trumpet,Fluegelhorn, Recorder
Robert Brown – Saxophone
Mossa Bildner – Vocals
Hilliard Greene – Bass
Michael Wimberley - Drums
Jorge Amorim – Percussions

The poem, Harvest of my Tongue, depicts Michele Blondel’s vision of the Alphabet as a personal cosmology of Spirit and Sex: God’s Word and the Body’s Experience.
Set to music, the words are used for their intrinsic sound quality, as well as their ability to evoke the exotic and erotic imagery of the poem.
Performed as a cycle of 26 short pieces, A through Z, Harvest of my Tongue employs a variety of historic, international, and tribal styles, including Plainsong, French Café Concert, Middle Eastern, Operatic, Afro- Brazilian, and Jazz.

This is a modular work that in this performance will cover letters A-F, K, L, N,O,P and Y.

The piece was originally composed for Voice and Double Bass and commissioned by the Fine Arts Museum at Amherst to celebrate a 25 year retrospective of Michele Blondel’s work.

Place: the Living Theatre
21 Clinton street (btw Houston & Stanton), New York, NY 10002

General admission: $10
Students & seniors: $7