Timur & the Dime Museum Operatic Vaudeville with a Bohemian Attitude
Thursday, June 10th at 7:00pm
Mark Taper Auditorium
Los Angeles Central Library
630 W. Fifth Street LA, CA 90071
$7.00 / Free to Library Associates
Available via www.aloudla.org
“The charismatic tenor”, The Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles, CA, May 24, 2010 – Blending a tenor’s haunting vocals with cabaret-inspired reinventions of pop songs both old and new, Timur Bekbosunov will sing selections from such varied sources as Russian Gypsy Vadim Kozin to David Bowie, Kristian Hoffman, Klaus Nomi, NIN and Radiohead on Thursday, June 10th at 7:00pm at the Los Angeles Central Library’s intimate 235- seat Mark Taper Auditorium. Presented as part of the Library Foundation of Los Angeles’ award-winning ALOUD at Central Library series of lectures, readings, conversations, and live performances, Timur will be joined by Mary Au, toy piano; Daniel Corral, accordion; Jennifer Landsay, violin; Alex Noice, guitar; Matthew Setzer, guitar; David Tranchina, bass; Brian Walsh, clarinert; and Cassia Streib, viola, for an eclectic evening of uncoventional music, located somewhere between David Bowie, Nina Simone and Klaus Nomi.
Tickets: $7.00 General Admission / FREE to Library Foundation Members at www.aloudla.org or over the phone at 213.228.7500. Proceeds from ticket sales support the Library Foundation’s free ALOUD at Central Library programming.
Location: Mark Taper Auditorium, Central Library, Fifth & Flower Streets, Downtown Los Angeles
Parking: 524 S. Flower St. Garage, $1 until 8:45 p.m. with Los Angeles Public Library card validation.
The majority of ALOUD at Central Library programs are FREE, general admission unless otherwise specified. For those without reservations, standby tickets will be available at the door, in person only, beginning one hour prior to the program. Unclaimed reservations are released to standby patrons at the start of each program. In the event of a full program, latecomers may not be seated.
About Timur Bekbosunov
An emerging interpreter of contemporary music, Kazakh-American tenor Timur Bekbosunov has made solo appearances with Los Angeles Philharmonic, Opera Boston, Bang on a Can All- Stars, Long Beach Opera, Israeli Opera/YAP, Santa Cecilia Academy, LOOS ensemble, Bakersfield Symphony, Opera Kansas, DeVotchKa ensemble, and Rosanna Gamson/World Wide; at the Hollywood Bowl, Redcat Theater, American Repertory Theater, Zellerbach Hall and Walt Disney Concert Hall. Praised by the Wall Street Journal, as “program’s promise fulfilled”, by the Los Angeles Times as “charismatic” and La Repubblica, as “rewarding and effective”, Timur has worked and collaborated with many renowned composers, including Thomas Adès (Powder Her Face), Evan Ziporyn (A House in Bali, Oedipus), Anne LeBaron (Crescent City,
The Silent Steppe Cantata), Silvano Bussotti (Silvano Sylvano), Anthony Davis (Revolution of Forms), Gian-Carlo Menotti (Five Songs), Meyer Kupferman (In a Garden), Gil Shohat (Songs of Darkness) and Geoffrey Pope (The Stone House). As a founder of the Art of Opera, a non- profit organization dedicated to modern opera compositions, he has directed an operatic multimedia installation DO_SCREAM, based on Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and the Death of Virgil by Broch; with Sandra Powers, he co-directed an award-winning music film “Autumn”. Currently, he is developing the Mad Muezzin Szymanowski Fantasy, and co-producing The Silent Steppe Cantata, a large-scale sonic portrait of Kazakhstan. His upcoming 2010 performances included Rosanna Gamson’s dance-theater project Tov at Redcat Theatre, west coast premiere of An American Tragedy by Tobias Picker at the Broad Stage, world premiere of the Silent Steppe Cantata by Anne LeBaron, and will continue with regional premieres of A House in Bali by Evan Ziporyn at the Ravinia Festival, Boston Majestic, and BAM; opera “Hot” at the Berlin Konzerthaus and performances with his band, Timur and the Dime Museum, at the Aloud series. He is currently recording his debut album inspired by
Charles Darwin’s “Origin of Species”, with songs composed by Sondre Lerche, Nick Urata, Amanda Palmer and Kristian Hoffman. Please visit www.theoperaoftimur.com.
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Since 1993, the Library Foundation of Los Angeles’ ALOUD series has featured Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning scientists, writers, historians, and journalists; best-selling novelists, playwrights, poets, educators, philosophers, sociologists, and artists. ALOUD is a project of the Library Foundation of Los Angeles and is presented in association with the Los Angeles Public Library. The series is curated by Cultural Programs Director and award-winning writer Louise Steinman.
Major support for ALOUD is provided by The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation and the Annenberg Foundation. Support is also provided by Dean Hansell, Donna and Martin J. Wolff, Arent Fox, City National Bank, Deloitte, K&L Gates, KPMG LLP, The Righteous Persons Foundation, Wallis Foundation, The Boudjakdji Foundation, The Council of the Library Foundation and by the Library Associates. Media support is provided by 89.3 KPCC, Classical KUSC and KCET.
About the Library Foundation of Los Angeles
The Library Foundation of Los Angeles secures support to enrich the capabilities, resources and services of the Los Angeles Public Library. We accomplish this through fundraising, advocacy, building awareness and investing in innovative programs that benefit our diverse community. Our support complements, but does not supplant, the City’s responsibility for funding the Los Angeles Public Library’s operations.
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