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The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote: Words and Music from the Time of Cervantes
Featuring the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet and Phil Proctor

Admission is free. Reservations required. To RSVP, click on the links below beginning Monday, January 30, at 9 a.m.

USC Students, Staff and Faculty: To RSVP, click here http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserve.php?RSVPEvtCode=195

General Public: To RSVP, click here http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserveGeneral_Multi.php?RSVPEvtCode=195

The four Grammy-winning virtuosos of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet will join forces with comedy legend Phil Proctor of Firesign Theatre to present an entirely new experience of the story of the Knight of La Mancha. This theatrical presentation is a unique mix of dramatic storytelling and intricate chamber music, creating a hybrid performance piece rich with humor and expressive depth. Proctor, a master of voices and dialects, will portray a dozen different characters as he traces the dramatic arc of Cervantes’s masterpiece. LAGQ will accompany him with colorful arrangements of musical gems from the Spanish Golden Age. Following the performance, a discussion will illuminate the frivolity, nobility and humanity of the words and music from the time of Cervantes.

Fascinating and entertaining, the performance will draw the audience into the world of 17th-century Spain, and bring them along for all the hilarity and tragedy of Don Quixote’s infamous adventures. The narration explores the comedy, pathos and surrealism of Cervantes’s text. The music is not a mere background score to the narration, but serves as an equal partner in the unfolding story. The brilliant guitar arrangements explore a wide range of colors made famous by LAGQ, while staying true to medieval and Renaissance sensibilities. The intricate synchronization of text and music creates an atmosphere of dramatic excitement that brings the knight’s quixotic struggle for immortality to life.

Organized by William Kanengiser (Music). Co-sponsored by the USC Thornton School of Music.

Images: Marc Rouve

For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu

Location: George Finley Bovard Administration Building (ADM) - Bovard Auditorium

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Daria Yudacufski