Flowers Are Sleeping with Eisa Davis
Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space Symphony Space Music The Music of Now |
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As part of Pulitzer Prize nominee Eisa Davis's two-year position as artist-in-residence at Symphony Space, she presents an evening of songs from her most recent recording, Something Else, as well as other original works, and offers a sneak preview from her new music-theater work, Flowers are Sleeping, commissioned by Symphony Space that will receive its world premiere performance in April of 2013 as part of Symphony Space's Harlem Renaissance festival.
PERFORMERS:
Eisa Davis, vocals and piano
Jon Spurney, guitar and keyboard
Charles Burnham, violin
Keith Witty, bass
Chris Eddleton, drums
Rebecca Naomi Jones, Kelly McCreary, Shaina Taub and the Taubettes, guest vocalists
PROGRAM
Music and lyrics by Eisa Davis except when noted otherwise
40 Moons
Invariably
What's Left
None Of My Business
Juan Song
Maybe I'll Say Maybe
After All (music by Peter Eldridge, lyrics by Melissa James Gibson)
Too Early (written with Daniel T Denver)
.....from Flowers Are Sleeping:
Museum Stroll
No Music
Turn Out the Light
Flowers Are Sleeping
Start Over With Me
......
Something Else
"Flawless...radiant" - The New York Times
"Like a mother asked to pick her favorite child, Davis refuses to choose between her music, her writing and her acting" - The New York Times
