If there s one thing Stephen Harvey enjoys almost as much as jazz, it s superhero stories.
“Outside of music, I live and breathe superheroes,” Harvey, a Rochester-raised composer and bandleader said. “It had been a long-time idea to combine these two passions into a project.
Harvey has written nine original compositions, all inspired by comic book/popular culture superheroes, archetypes and tropes.
More specifically, the compositions are influenced by the personas, powers and stories, and what I think would best represent them in the jazz orchestra format, said the 2010 Rochester High grad who now lives and teaches in Salisbury, Md. For example, the title piece, Smash, contains a lot of dark, chromatic harmonies that are accented by the full band. This would represent those big drag-out fights between two super-strength brutes. Each punch by the big band would be a smash from that battle. Or maybe a piece based on the power of flight? The piece “Zephyr” mo
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Monteze Freeland is among five playwrights whose work is featured in Homegrown Stories 2, a collaboration of City Theatre Company and Pittsburgh Playhouse.
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After the success of last summer’s “Homegrown Stories,” City Theatre and Point Park University’s Pittsburgh Playhouse have commissioned five additional playwrights to write 10-minute plays for “Homegrown Stories 2.”
With a company of Point Park alumni and Pittsburgh-based artists, a digital reading of the works will take place at 7 p.m. May 25 in partnership with City of Asylum. The plays are conceived for a digital medium and offer responses to the current world.
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Through his independent NYC brand Duality Junkie, Chapel has introduced internet-friendly styles that abandon preexisting rules in order to transform and subvert everyday staples that we re all familiar with.
Why are trucker hats only sold with one brim, not two? What if your classic white tee stayed wrinkly throughout the day? Soda can tabs could become jewelry and plaid boxers could become prairie skirts. Maybe they even
should? I m taking things that everyone has a relationship with and manipulating its intention, Chapel says, underscoring his playful, nostalgic practice. Like it s a fucking lace front wig; why doesn t it have pair of shoe laces tied up at the part?