PROGRAM
Pepperland
(2017)
Music: Original songs by The Beatles, arr. by Ethan Iverson*
Original compositions by Ethan Iverson†
Choreography: Mark Morris
Set Design: Johan Henckens
Costume Design: Elizabeth Kurtzman
Lighting Design: Nick Kolin
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band*
Magna Carta†
With a Little Help from My Friends*
Adagio†
When I’m Sixty-Four*
Allegro†
Within You Without You*
Scherzo†
Wilbur Scoville†
Penny Lane*
A Day in the Life*
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band*
Clinton Curtis, vocals; Sam Newsome, soprano saxophone; Jacob Garchik, trombone; Rob Schwimmer, theremin; Ethan Iverson, piano; Chris McCarthy, keyboard; Vinnie Sperrazza, percussion
Mica Bernas, Karlie Budge, Kara Chan, Zack Gonder, Kyle Halford, Colin Heininger, Sarah Hillmon, Courtney Lopes, Dallas McMurray, Alex Meeth, Brandon Randolph, Robert Rubama, Christina Sahaida, Joslin Vezeau, Noah Vinson
Original music by The Beatles. All Rights Reserved. Used by permission from Sony Music Publishing.
Pepperland is a Mark Morris Dance Group production in association with Cal Performances, UC Berkeley; American Dance Festival, Durham, North Carolina; BAM, Brooklyn, New York; Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity with the Sony Centre, Toronto, Canada; Celebrity Series of Boston, Massachusetts; The City
of Liverpool, England, UK; Dance Consortium UK; Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; International Festival of Arts & Ideas, New Haven, Connecticut; The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC; Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign; La Jolla Music Society, La Jolla, California; Meyer Sound, Berkeley, California; Seattle Theatre Group, Seattle, Washington; Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Costa Mesa, California; UCSB Arts & Lectures, Santa Barbara, California; and White Bird, Portland, Oregon.
Pepperland is supported in part by Friends of MMDG, the Howard Gilman Foundation, PARC Foundation, and New Music USA. Music commissioned by the Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation. The premiere engagement was supported by funding from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation through USArtists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Howard Gilman Foundation.
This program will be performed without an intermission.