May 1, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Sevan Melikyan, Director of P.R.
817.738.6536
CLIBURN AT THE MODERN PRESENTS AN EVENING WITH AWARD-WINNING
COMPOSER/LYRICIST ADAM GUETTEL
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, May 1, 2008--Cliburn at the Modern will
present Tony-Award winning American composer/lyricist Adam Guettel
on Tuesday, May 13, 2008, at 7:30 p.m. in the Auditorium of the
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (3200 Darnell Street).
Following in the tradition of his grandfather Richard Rodgers
and mother Mary Rodgers, Adam Guettel is one of today's most
creative new voices on Broadway and beyond. His groundbreaking 1996
musical Floyd Collins received an Obie Award and his 2005 musical
The Light in the Piazza took home six Tony Awards, including Best
Original Score and Best Orchestration. Also an accomplished singer,
Guettel counts pop and classical music, as well as Stephen
Sondheim, among his early influences.
The evening will feature songs from Guettel's musicals A Light
in the Piazza, Floyd Collins, and Myths and Hymns. Mr. Guettel,
along with singers Elias Hendricks and Angela Turner Wilson, and
pianist Adam Ben-David, will perform the songs.
Following the concert, the audience is invited to meet Mr.
Guettel and the performers in the museum's lobby.
TICKETS AND INFORMATION: Single tickets are $20
for members of the Van Cliburn Foundation or the Modern, $25 for
non-members, and $10 for students. Tickets are available from
Central Ticket Office online or by calling 817.335.9000.
Concert information is available at www.cliburn.org.
ExxonMobil is the Principal Corporate Sponsor of the Van Cliburn
Foundation. American Airlines, Bank of America, City of Fort Worth,
Eastman Kodak Company, JPMorgan Chase, Star-Telegram, Steinway
& Sons, and XTO Energy Inc. are Official Corporate Sponsors,
and Clear Channel Communications and RadioShack Corporation are the
Cliburn's Corporate Sponsors. Official Sponsors are the Arts
Council of Fort Worth & Tarrant County, The Burnett Foundation,
Once Upon a Time..., and the Sid W. Richardson Foundation.
Star-Telegram is the principal media partner and WRR 101.1 FM is
the official radio station of Cliburn Concerts.
ADAM GUETTEL
Adam Guettel is a composer/lyricist living in New York City. His
newest musical, The Light in the Piazza (cast album on Nonesuch
Records), premiered on Broadway at Lincoln Center Theater's Vivian
Beaumont Theater in April 2005, following a world premiere at
Seattle's Intiman Theater in summer of 2003, and a second
engagement at Chicago's Goodman Theater in early 2004 (where it
received three Joseph Jefferson Awards, including Best Musical).
The Light in the Piazza received six Tony Awards in 2005, including
two for Mr. Guettel for Best Original Score and Best
Orchestrations. Piazza also received five Drama Desk Awards,
including two for Mr. Guettel for Best Music and Best
Orchestrations. He wrote music and lyrics for Floyd Collins (cast
album on Nonesuch Records), which received the 1996 Lucille Lortel
Award for Best Musical and earned Mr.Guettel the Obie Award for
Best Music. Floyd Collins has been presented at Playwrights
Horizons, New York; Prince Theatre, Philadelphia; Goodman Theatre,
Chicago; Old Globe, San Diego; Bridewell, London; and
elsewhere.
Additional works include Love's Fire, a collaboration with John
Guare for the Acting Company, and Saturn Returns, a concert at
Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival. Saturn
Returns was recorded by Nonesuch Records under the title Myths and
Hymns. Four of Mr. Guettel's songs were featured on Audra
McDonald's Nonesuch Records album, Way Back to Paradise (1998), and
two more appear on her 2000 album, How Glory Goes (including the
title track). Mr. Guettel performed a concert evening of his work
at New York's Town Hall in 1999. Film scores include Arguing the
World, a feature documentary by Joe Dorman, and the score for Jack,
a two-hour documentary for CBS by Peter Davis (1994). Accolades for
Mr. Guettel include the Stephen Sondheim Award (1990), the SCAP New
Horizons Award (1997), and the American Composers Orchestra Award
(2005).
Contact: Sevan Melikyan Dir. of P.R.
email: sevan@cliburn.org
phone: 817.738.6536
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