- Dee Dee Bridgewater
"To Billie With Love":
A Celebration of Lady Day -
Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 7 pm
$42 / $35 / $26 "Erotic torque . . . pioneering every phrase . . . when she hit the first note, it seemed you could hear the last note in it. And in every note you could almost hear the rest of jazz."
—Hollywood Reporter
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Even calling Dee Dee Bridgewater the most brilliant jazz singer of her time doesn’t quite do her justice. Through the sheer force of her ebullient personality, not to mention her astounding vocal technique, the 58-year-old Tony and Grammy Award-winner commands the stage—charming, flirting, and ultimately having her way with an audience. In this performance, Bridgewater delves into the broad-ranging repertoire she explored during Stephen Stahl’s Lady Day, her Laurence Olivier-nominated theatrical portrayal of enigmatic jazz icon Billie Holiday. Bridgewater conveys Holiday’s unique vocals and influential style with performances of Holiday’s jazz standards, including God Bless the Child, Don't Explain, Lady Sings the Blues, and the blazing anthem Strange Fruit.
Book Club: "Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song" by David Margolick
Wednesday, October 14 at 7:30 pm
Anyone who has heard Billie Holiday sing Strange Fruit knows of, if not
understands, the awful shame blacks have had to bear living in America. The
first two lines explain it: “Southern trees bear a strange fruit, / Blood on the
leaves and blood at the root.” Holiday first sang this dirge in early 1939 in
the integrated Café Society nightclub in New York, and soon after that fateful
event, it became Holiday’s signature song. David Margolick tells that story
and many more concerning Strange Fruit in this biography of the song itself.
Presented in association with the Office of the Associate Provost for Multicultural Affairs through the UVM President's Initiative for Diversity.
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Funded in part by the Flynn Jazz Endowment, created thanks to community contributions and a challenge grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; by the Flynn General Endowment. The General Endowment received challenge grants from the Ford Foundation New Directions/New Donors program and the Argosy Foundation which were matched by generous support from the community. The Flynn acknowledges critical National Endowment for the Arts Recovery Actartist residency and staff support.
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