{"id":5844,"global_id":"www.thevillagetrip.com?id=5844","global_id_lineage":["www.thevillagetrip.com?id=5844"],"author":"1","status":"publish","date":"2022-08-05 06:02:24","date_utc":"2022-08-05 10:02:24","modified":"2022-09-05 04:43:55","modified_utc":"2022-09-05 08:43:55","url":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/event\/charlie-parker-stefan-wolpe\/","rest_url":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/events\/5844","title":"Charlie Parker & Stefan Wolpe","description":"
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Photo: Hilliard Greene and The Jazz Expressions<\/em><\/p>\n

Greenwich Village, famed for its rebel poets and painters, was also a hotbed of revolutionary politics. Charlie Parker is revered for his creation, with Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk, of bebop. Composer Stefan Wolpe, a German-Jewish composer who had fled the Nazis, settled in Westbeth Artist Housing on West and Bethune streets. He taught and mentored a wide variety of avant-gardists and jazz musicians and was a friend of Parker. Like him, he kept his music radical.<\/p>\n

Hilliard Greene and The Jazz Expressions<\/strong>, experts in bebop, will cover some Charlie Parker, as well as their original work.<\/p>\n

Legendary composer and improviser\u00a0David Amram<\/strong>\u00a0was acquainted with all of the figures involved in this concert. He knew Wolpe, jammed with Parker, Dizzy, and Monk; and he knew the abstract expressionist painters. David, Artist Emeritus of The Village Trip, will speak about bebop. He will sit in with Hill and the Jazz Expressions and perform Parker\u2019s Now\u2019s the Time<\/em> before going to Farm Aid and joining Willie Nelson.<\/p>\n

The Momenta String Quartet<\/strong> will perform works by Wolpe and his student Matthew Greenbaum, along with a new work written especially for The Village Trip by Greenbaum\u2019s prot\u00e9g\u00e9, Hannah Selin.<\/p>\n

When Wolpe arrived in New York in 1938 he immersed himself in the art world as he had done in Berlin, and Weimar, where he was part of the Bauhaus scene and an active Dadaist. In the US, he joined with the abstract expressionist painters at the Eighth Street School, an important center of radical arts; there are definite traces of \u201caction painting\u201d in his work of the time.\u00a0The same has been said of the bebop players –a kindred energy. In Wolpe\u2019s work, artistic values from Berlin and the Bauhaus are transformed as he absorbed New York\u2019s abstract expressionism and bebop. These influences are seen in the list of those he befriended in New York \u2013 Charlie Parker, Gil Evans, Miles Davis, John Carisi, Franz Klein, Willem and Elaine De Kooning, Mark Rothko, Jack Tworkov, Jackson Pollock.<\/p>\n

The concert will feature work by Wolpe\u2019s students Elie Yarden and Matthew\u00a0Greenbaum, along with a new piece especially written for The Village Trip by Greenbaum\u2019s student Hannah Selin.<\/p>\n

7pm prelude and discussion with David Amram; 7:30pm concert<\/em><\/p>\n

Presented in partnership with the Stefan Wolpe Society<\/h4>\n

Performers<\/h4>\n