These performances are made possible in part by:The P. J. McMyler Musical Endowment Fund The Ernest L. and Louise M. Gartner Fund The Anton and Rose Zverina Music Fund

The Frank and Margaret Hyncik Memorial Fund

The Adolph Benedict and Ila Roberts Schneider Fund

The Arthur, Asenath, and Walter H. Blodgett Memorial Fund

The Dorothy Humel Hovorka Endowment Fund

The Albertha T. Jennings Musical Arts Fund

DEPARTMENT OF PERFORMING ARTS, MUSIC, AND FILMThe Cleveland Museum of Art 11150 East Boulevard Cleveland, Ohio 44106–1797

performingarts@clevelandart.org cma.org/performingarts

#CMAperformingarts

Programs are subject to change.

Series sponsors:

TICKETS 1–888–CMA–0033 cma.org/performingarts

Photography and audio/video recording in the performance hall are prohibited.

Please turn off all electronic devices before entering the performance hall.

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Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Butler, Bernstein & the Hot 9

Butler, Bernstein & the Hot 9Wednesday, October 11, 2017, 7:30 p.m.Gartner Auditorium, the Cleveland Museum of Art

ENSEMBLE

Henry Butler piano, vocals

Steven Bernstein trumpet, slide trumpet, alto horn

Curtis Fowlkes trombone

Charlie Burnham violin

Doug Wieselman B-flat clarinet, E-flat clarinet, tenor saxophone

Peter Apfelbaum tenor & soprano saxophone

Erik Lawrence baritone & soprano saxophone

Matt Munisteri guitar

Conrad Korsch bass

Alvester Garnett drums

PROGRAM

Tonight’s program, presented in conjunction with the

exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s,

will be without intermission and will be announced from

the stage.

Following the performance, the band will sign CDs

in the North Lobby

Welcome to the Cleveland Museum of ArtThe Cleveland Museum of Art’s performing arts series offers a fascinating concert calendar notable for its boundless multiplicity. This year, visits from old friends and new bring century-spanning music from around the globe, exploring cultural connections that link the human heart and spirit.

In the GalleriesThe Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s Through January 14

Chaekgeori: Pleasure of Possessions in Korean Painted Screens Through November 5

From Riches to Rags: American Photography in the Depression Through December 31

Gods and Heroes: Ancient Legends in Renaissance Art Through December 31

Beyond Angkor: Cambodian Sculpture from Banteay Chhmar October 14–January 7

cma.org/performingarts #CMAperformingarts

Chamber Music in the Galleries Wednesday, October 4, 6:00

Butler, Bernstein & the Hot 9 Wednesday, October 11, 7:30

Lou Harrison Centennial Friday, October 20, 7:30

Chamber Music in the Galleries Wednesday, November 1, 6:00

SQÜRL (Jim Jarmusch & Carter Logan) Wednesday, November 1, 7:30

Ji Aeri Sunday, November 5, 2:00

Chamber Music in the Galleries Wednesday, December 6, 6:00

Chamber Music in the Galleries Wednesday, January 3, 6:00

Davide Mariano Sunday, January 14, 2:00

Chamber Music in the Galleries Wednesday, February 7, 6:00

Third Coast Percussion Sunday, February 11, 2:00

Mantra Percussion Friday, February 23, 7:30

Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble Sunday, March 4, 2:00

Chamber Music in the Galleries Wednesday, March 7, 6:00

CIM Organ Studio Sunday, March 11, 2:00

Wu Man & Huayin Shadow Puppet Band Wednesday, March 21, 7:30

Chamber Music in the Galleries Wednesday, April 4, 6:00

Tallis Scholars Friday, April 13, 7:30

Chamber Music in the Galleries Wednesday, May 2, 6:00

Performing Arts 2017–18

Please turn off all electronic devices before entering the performance hall.

Photography and audio/video recording in the performance hall are prohibited.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s The decade of the 1920s was a glorious age for design. After the smoke and devastation of the First World War, the mood became one of rebirth and reinvention. A new order emerged from the old, driven by innovation and the audacity of youth. With the postwar map of Europe redrawn and social mores redefined, design influences merged—especially in Paris, Vienna, and across the United States. New fortunes, primarily American ones, fueled self-indulgence and conspicuous consumption, prompting an explosion of design featuring vibrant colors, sumptuous materials, and a unique sense of freedom. The United States became the leading marketplace for innovative architecture, interior design, decorative art, fashion, and music, with industrial design moving into the domestic sphere. Talent and craftsmanship, urbanity and experimentation flowed back and forth across the Atlantic, creating an age of glamour unlike any other.

While many refer to this period by its 1960s nickname—Art Deco—it was F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby, who termed it the “Jazz Age.” Jazz was an apt metaphor for artistic expression during this time, reflecting both the push for modern ideas within the confines of the traditional social order and the pulse and rhythm of city nightlife. Through a rich array of extraordinary works in jewelry, fashion, and decorative arts, featuring the people and events that punctuated the era, The Jazz Age presents the dazzling world of flappers and dandies in all its dizzying glory.

Stephen Harrison Curator of Decorative Art and Design

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Butler, Bernstein & the Hot 9 Blind since birth, Henry Butler tells stories through the rise, swing, and rumble of his fingers as they channel sounds as diverse as his Louisiana birthplace: jazz, Caribbean, classical, pop, blues and R&B, among others. A giant among giants, he is a member of a special brotherhood that also includes Professor Longhair, James Booker, and Allen Toussaint. His technical ability and expansive repertoire are legendary.

A veteran of New York City’s downtown scene and a Grammy-winning arranger, Steven Bernstein juggles a forward-looking perspective with a rooted sense of what’s come before. Known for his work with The Lounge Lizards and Sexmob, he’s also the leader of the Millennial Territory Orchestra, a nine-piece ensemble that draws tunes and inspiration from the dance orchestras that toured the U.S. before World War II.

Though historical explorers they may be; neither Butler nor Bernstein can avoid incorporating the most modern and freer edge of today’s jazz expression into their music. Each has found ways of balancing past and future in their respective musical signatures. “Steve’s got this modern touch in his playing and his arrangements, avant-garde and beyond,” says Butler. Bernstein laughs and shakes his head: “I call Henry a space-traveler/historian.”

The two first worked together in 1998 in the Kansas City All Stars, a touring big band led by Bernstein that came out of the Robert Altman film Kansas City. They reunited in 2011 to perform a special, one-off concert at a blues festival in New York City and the material they chose to do that day—the classic blues of Bessie Smith, the first-generation jazz of Jelly Roll Morton, and other similar tunes—resonated

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UPCOMING JAZZ AGE FILMS

Each film program $10, $7 CMA members

DAVID DRAZIN ACCOMPANIES

Enchantment Fri/Oct 13, 7:00. Directed by Robert G. Vignola. Marion Davies, ace comedienne and protégé/paramour to William Randolph Hearst, plays a millionaire’s spoiled daughter who is whipped into shape by the actor playing Petruchio in a local production of The Taming of the Shrew. This delightful silent comedy is best remembered today for its Art Deco production design (sets, costumes, lighting) by prominent designer Joseph Urban. Chicago jazz pianist David Drazin will provide live musical accompaniment. Preserved by the Library of Congress.

Speedy Fri/Oct 20, 7:00. Sun/Oct 22, 1:30. Directed by Ted Wilde. With Harold Lloyd. This ebullient silent comedy tells of an ardent baseball fan who tries to save the last horse-drawn trolley line (run by his girlfriend’s grandfather) in speed-obsessed New York City. Partly filmed on location, the movie offers a fascinating look at 1920s NYC. Recorded music score by Carl Davis. Preceded at showtime by Manhatta, Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand’s silent “city symphony.”

L’Inhumaine (The Inhuman Woman) Sun/Oct 29, 1:30. Tue/Oct 31, 1:45. Directed by Marcel L’Herbier. Fernand Léger, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Paul Poiret, René Lalique, and other vanguard French painters, architects, designers, dancers, and musicians were enlisted by filmmaker L’Herbier to collaborate with him on this “miscellany of modern art.” Newly restored, it’s a fantastic silent spectacle about a heartless opera singer and her many beaus, some of whom she drives to murder and suicide. “As Caligari served to market German Expressionism as a brand, so L’Inhumaine might have been made to promote the term Art Deco” –J. Hoberman, NY Times. Shown with two different recorded music scores: the Alloy Orchestra’s on Sunday and percussionist Aidje Tafial’s on Tuesday.

in a way neither had expected. “We’ll do something like this again,” Bernstein remembers them promising each other.

Butler and Bernstein reassembled in 2012 for an engagement at the Jazz Standard. “We had to get tunes together since we’d be doing two sets a night,” explains Butler. “Steven came over to my place and he’d propose a tune, we’d play it and I’d feed ideas to him—he calls them ‘Henryisms.’ Then he’d work them out for the whole band, play them back to me and I’d have to come up with some new ideas all over again. That’s how most of the arrangements came about.”

“We knew we had something special on the first set of the run,” recalls Bernstein. Veteran producer Joshua Feigenbaum was in the audience that night. He returned for most of their shows that week, convinced the group had to record. Both Butler and Bernstein refer to him as the third partner that made this album a reality. “This music is really the result of three perspectives,” says Bernstein. “The song choices came from Henry and myself and I did the arrangements, plus we used most of MTO’s frontline players. But the push to get this music recorded—and the idea for using an expert rhythm section like Reginald Veal and Herlin Riley—that’s Josh. He heard the value in this music and made this album happen.”

The music that Butler, Bernstein, and the Hot 9 have created together is filled with modern flavors, agile arrangements and a vitality that never allows the historical focus to limit itself to mere recreation. “We’re not trying to replicate New Orleans music or old-time blues,” says Bernstein. “We’re all musicians who have come out of other experiences, many of us in New York like working with Don Cherry and Wynton Marsalis and Lou Reed and Levon Helm. We’re taking that and then using the framework of Jelly Roll Morton and Fats Waller.”

“They were an ideal pairing,” concluded The New York Times in their review. “Mr. Bernstein and the Hot 9’s New York City erudition and gusto worked to compound Mr. Butler’s encyclopedic New Orleans flair.”

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UPCOMING PERFORMANCES

Lou Harrison Centennial Fri/Oct 20, 7:30, Gartner Auditorium. One of the most original composers America has ever produced, pioneering Lou Harrison successfully integrated traditional music of Asia into classical music of the West. Having developed a deep knowledge of and reverence for various traditions over his 80 years, Harrison created an enormous body of music that synthesizes the East and West in structure, harmony, and instrumentation. In celebration of the 100th anniversary of his birth, we present Harrison’s Concerto for Piano with Javanese Gamelan, featuring pianist Sarah Cahill and one of the composer’s own gamelans on loan from Harvard University, performed by Gamelan Galak Tika under the direction of Evan Ziporyn. As choreographer and Harrison’s longtime friend Mark Morris put it, “You either love Lou’s music, or you haven’t heard it yet.” $33–$45, CMA members $30–$40.

Sqürl: Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan Wed/Nov 1, 7:30, Gartner Auditorium. Acclaimed filmmaker Jim Jarmusch (whose breakout movie was the shot-in-Cleveland Stranger Than Paradise with its memorable soundtrack featuring Screaming Jay Hawkins) brings his singular music and film project to the museum stage. Jarmusch (electric guitar) and Carter Logan (drums) perform as SQÜRL, a self-described “enthusiastically marginal rock band from New York City.” Jarmusch and Logan started scoring music for film in 2009, culminating most recently in Jarmusch’s films Only Lovers Left Alive and Patterson. This evening’s program features Jarmusch and Logan’s scores for four silent films by American Dada and Surrealist artist Man Ray. Relying heavily on loops, synthesizers, and effected guitars, the semi-improvised scores drift toward the band’s more experimental, ambient, and drone-like tendencies. Followed by an onstage conversation with Jarmusch and Logan hosted by CMA curator of contemporary art Reto Thüring. $26–$35, CMA members $22–$30.

King of Jazz Sat/Nov 4, 5:00. Sun/Nov 5, 6:30. Directed by John Murray Anderson. With Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra, Bing Crosby, et al. Whiteman, a hugely popular bandleader of the 1920s who was dubbed “King of Jazz” by the Caucasian media, is the ringmaster of this entertainment extravaganza. Shot in an early two-strip Technicolor process, the film has been beautifully restored. Co-presented by the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque and shown in the Peter B. Lewis Theater, 11610 Euclid Ave.

PRE-CODE DOUBLE FEATURE!

Baby Face Directed by Alfred Green. Employees’ Entrance Directed by Roy Del Ruth. Sun/Nov 12, 1:30. Tue/Nov 14, 1:45. Two surprisingly salacious “working girl” classics from the racy Pre-Code era. In the first, ambitious NYC bartender Barbara Stanwyck sleeps her way from the basement to the penthouse. The second tells of a ruthless department store manager who exploits his female employees (Loretta Young et al.) because jobs are hard to come by during the Depression. Preserved by the Library of Congress.

Zouzou Sun/Nov 26, 1:30. Tue/Nov 28, 1:45. Directed by Marc Allégret. With Josephine Baker and Jean Gabin. Paris’s American-born, Jazz Age stage sensation Josephine Baker made her sound film debut in this French drama about a laundress who becomes a musical theater star. Preceded at showtime by the early sound short Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake, featuring the composer and lyricist of the 1920s Broadway hit Shuffle Along. 35mm print preserved by the Library of Congress.

Madam Satan Sun/Dec 10, 1:30. Tue/Dec 12, 1:45. Directed by Cecil B. DeMille. With Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny, and Lillian Roth. To win back her straying husband, a wife dons a seductive disguise during an elaborate masquerade ball on an ill-fated zeppelin. Cecil B. DeMille’s outlandish extravaganza may be the screen’s first disaster movie. Preceded at showtime by Lindbergh’s Flight, a Fox Movietone sound newsreel.

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Ji Aeri Sun/Nov 5, 2:00, Gartner Auditorium. In conjunction with the exhibition Chaekgeori: Pleasure of Possessions in Korean Painted Screens, kayagum virtuoso Ji Aeri performs an intimate concert of Korean music both traditional and contemporary. The kayagum, a zither-like instrument with 12 strings, is related to the Japanese koto and the Chinese guzheng. Ji Aeri learned to play kayagum from Hwang Byungki, the master musician who played a crucial role in disseminating traditional Korean music in the West and developing contemporary music for the instrument. This rare performance takes place on the closing day of the Korean screens exhibition. This performance generously supported by the Korea Foundation. Free; ticket required.

Third Coast Percussion — Paddle to the Sea Sun/Feb 11, 2:00, Gartner Auditorium. The classic children’s book and Academy Award-nominated film, Paddle to the Sea, is the focus of a new project that looks at our relationship to the bodies of water that connect our lives. Third Coast Percussion performs live its new score for the film, which tells the story of a Native Canadian boy who carves a wooden figure called Paddle-to-the-Sea and sets him on a journey through all five Great Lakes, the St. Lawrence River, and finally to the Atlantic Ocean. Existing works inspired by impressions of water and the natural world will weave in and out of the original film and new music, including composers Philip Glass and Jacob Druckman and the traditional music of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. The performance will flow together as a seamless whole, with Third Coast Percussion using the existing music as a jumping-off point for the new music they compose. Paddle to the Sea underscores the geographic, economic, and cultural connections in our shared waterways, and it also asks us to consider the human impact on the waters that help us transport our goods, provide our electrical power, bathe ourselves, cook our food, and quench our thirst. $30; CMA members $27; children 17 and under free with purchase of adult ticket.

Welcome to the Cleveland Museum of ArtThe Cleveland Museum of Art’s performing arts series offers a fascinating concert calendar notable for its boundless multiplicity. This year, visits from old friends and new bring century-spanning music from around the globe, exploring cultural connections that link the human heart and spirit.

In the GalleriesThe Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s Through January 14

Chaekgeori: Pleasure of Possessions in Korean Painted Screens Through November 5

From Riches to Rags: American Photography in the Depression Through December 31

Gods and Heroes: Ancient Legends in Renaissance Art Through December 31

Beyond Angkor: Cambodian Sculpture from Banteay Chhmar October 14–January 7

cma.org/performingarts #CMAperformingarts

Chamber Music in the Galleries Wednesday, October 4, 6:00

Butler, Bernstein & the Hot 9 Wednesday, October 11, 7:30

Lou Harrison Centennial Friday, October 20, 7:30

Chamber Music in the Galleries Wednesday, November 1, 6:00

SQÜRL (Jim Jarmusch & Carter Logan) Wednesday, November 1, 7:30

Ji Aeri Sunday, November 5, 2:00

Chamber Music in the Galleries Wednesday, December 6, 6:00

Chamber Music in the Galleries Wednesday, January 3, 6:00

Davide Mariano Sunday, January 14, 2:00

Chamber Music in the Galleries Wednesday, February 7, 6:00

Third Coast Percussion Sunday, February 11, 2:00

Mantra Percussion Friday, February 23, 7:30

Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble Sunday, March 4, 2:00

Chamber Music in the Galleries Wednesday, March 7, 6:00

CIM Organ Studio Sunday, March 11, 2:00

Wu Man & Huayin Shadow Puppet Band Wednesday, March 21, 7:30

Chamber Music in the Galleries Wednesday, April 4, 6:00

Tallis Scholars Friday, April 13, 7:30

Chamber Music in the Galleries Wednesday, May 2, 6:00

Performing Arts 2017–18

Please turn off all electronic devices before entering the performance hall.

Photography and audio/video recording in the performance hall are prohibited.

These performances are made possible in part by:The P. J. McMyler Musical Endowment Fund The Ernest L. and Louise M. Gartner Fund The Anton and Rose Zverina Music Fund

The Frank and Margaret Hyncik Memorial Fund

The Adolph Benedict and Ila Roberts Schneider Fund

The Arthur, Asenath, and Walter H. Blodgett Memorial Fund

The Dorothy Humel Hovorka Endowment Fund

The Albertha T. Jennings Musical Arts Fund

DEPARTMENT OF PERFORMING ARTS, MUSIC, AND FILMThe Cleveland Museum of Art 11150 East Boulevard Cleveland, Ohio 44106–1797

performingarts@clevelandart.org cma.org/performingarts

#CMAperformingarts

Programs are subject to change.

Series sponsors:

TICKETS 1–888–CMA–0033 cma.org/performingarts

Photography and audio/video recording in the performance hall are prohibited.

Please turn off all electronic devices before entering the performance hall.

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Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Butler, Bernstein & the Hot 9