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Washington Revels presents

Roberta Gasbarre, artistic/stage directorElizabeth Fulford Miller, music directorJim Alexander, production managerfeaturingThe Mellstock BandwithPuddletown BrassPortesham Singers Mellstock QuireToneborough Teens Casterbridge ChildrenandCutting Edge Sword DancersFoggy Bottom Morris Men

Lisner AuditoriumGeorge Washington UniversityWashington, DCDecember 4-12, 2010

English Country Music,Dance, and DramaIn Celebrationof the Winter Solstice

adaptation of a riotous mummers play from Hardy’s novel Return of the Native. (Hardy did depart from tradition, however, by having a girl disguise herself as a boy and join a group of mummers as the Turkish Knight. This also happens in our mummers play.) Tradition, change, and permanence. Under the Greenwood Tree reflects Hardy’s love of tradition (and his poetic prose) in his description of the quire’s caroling on Christmas Eve:

Then passed forth in the quiet night an ancient and timeworn hymn, embodying a quaint Christianity in words orally transmitted from father to son through several generations down to the present characters...

The introduction of the harmonium did help end traditions that had developed in connection with English quires. But new traditions will be created, and life will go on. Similarly, all Christmas Revels productions address change by honoring the cycle of life and the circle of the seasons. Individuals die, but others are born. The old year dies, but a new year is born. Through it all, in Mellstock, in The Christmas Revels, and around the world, people gather together to confront or to celebrate the changes that surround them.

—Terry Winslow

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• SPRING 2011TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW!Saturday, March 5, 8pm

POST-CLASSICAL ENSEMBLESublime Confluence: The Music of Lou HarrisonA unique event including Javanese gamelan music, film clips, and the most commanding Piano Concerto composed by an American.

Thursday, March 10, 8pm

LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZOThe seminal South African a capella singing group launched to international fame on Paul Simon’s Graceland.

Sunday, March 13, 7pm

PACO PEÑA: FLAMENCO VIVOSpanish flamenco guitar master Paco Peña and his own hand-picked company of dancers, guitarists, and singers.

Friday, March 25, 8pm

GAL COSTABrazilian vocal legend and a visionary of modern Brazilian music.

Saturday, March 26, 8pm

JIL AIGROT: “LA VIE EN ROSE”An evening of French song by the singing voice behind the film La Vie En Rose, including the songs of Édith Piaf, Jacques Brel, and Charles Aznavour.

Saturday, April 2, 8pm

IRA GLASSRadio on the TV: Stories about This American Life, the Television Show

Thursday, April 7, 8pm

ACOUSTIC AFRICAFeaturing African guitar icons Habib Koité (Mali), Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi (Zimbabwe), and Afel Bocoum (Mali)

Friday, April 29, 8pm

LOS MUÑEQUITOS DE MATANZASThe masters of Afro-Cuban rumba spanning three

generations of musicians, singers, and dancers.

Tickets available from the Lisner Box Office, 202-397-SEAT and www.ticketmaster.com

Audio and Video at www.lisner.org

Jil Aigrot

Acoustic Africa