La Times Review of Art Garfunkle Performance at Disney Concert Hall
Art GARFUNKEL
| DATE | Lord's day, May 15, 2016 We cannot offer refunds under any circumstances. |
| TIME | half-dozen:00PM (Doors Open 5:00PM) |
| VENUE | The Larcom Performing Arts Theatre 13 Wallis Street Beverly, MA 01915 Venue Details |
| TICKETS | RESERVED SEATS (ALL AGES) $75.00, $85.00, $95.00 |
Although it has been twoscore years since Span Over Troubled H2o was recorded, Art Garfunkel's paradigm and signature song remain among the most instantly recognizable in pop music. His "cute countertenor," as Neil Strauss described Art's voice in The New York Times, is clear and resonant, surely i of the finest instruments in all of pop music, and a time-honored friend to a world of listeners.
We are honored to bring Art Garfunkel back to Beverly's intimate Larcom Theatre with it'south gorgeous acoustics for ane very special evening that you won't soon forget.
ART GARFUNKEL BIOGRAPHY
Although it has been 40 years since Bridge Over Troubled Water was recorded, Art Garfunkel'due south epitome and signature vocal remain among the most instantly recognizable in pop music. His "beautiful countertenor," as Neil Strauss described Art's voice in The New York Times, is articulate and resonant, surely i of the finest instruments in all of pop music, and a time-honored friend to a world of listeners.
The dialogue began for Fine art at age four, when his begetter brought home one of the showtime wire recorders. "That got me into music more than annihilation else," he recalls, "singing and being able to record information technology." Seven years later he was singing Everly Brothers songs at school talent shows with a partner, Paul Simon, from his Wood Hills neighborhood in Queens, New York. "Then rhythm 'due north blues, rock 'n gyre came along." He and Paul fix their sights on the Brill Edifice. "Nosotros practiced in the basement then much that we got professional sounding. We made demos in Manhattan and knocked on all the doors of the record companies with our hearts in our throats." In 1957, 'Tom and Jerry' (as they were called then) landed a recording contract. Their first 45, "Hey, Schoolgirl" (which they wrote together) scored a moderate hit and they appeared on "American Bandstand" as high school seniors. "Nosotros got a quick education in the record business organisation," Art recounts.
"But I left and went to college. I was the kid who was going to find some way to brand a 'decent' living." He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at Columbia College, majoring in Fine art History; later on he earned his Masters degree in Mathematics at Columbia Academy. But he never stopped singing, and fifty-fifty recorded several solo singles (equally 'Artie Garr') while in schoolhouse. When he met up once more with Simon in 1962 and they began to rehearse, the decision was articulate to go back together as a duo.
They started performing every bit Simon & Garfunkel at the height of the folk music smash in late-1963, and inside a year were signed to Columbia Records, who paired them with producer/engineer Roy Halee. Simon & Garfunkel maintained a tireless pace in the recording studio and on the road, reaching a broad and loyal international audience. From 1964 to 1970 they recorded a groundbreaking string of classic albums (Wednesday Morning iii A.M., Sounds Of Silence, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme, The Graduate, Bookends, and Bridge Over Troubled Water) and an equally impressive body of songs, many of which became popular standards, among them; "The Sound Of Silence," "Homeward Jump," "I Am a Rock," "Kathy'southward Song," "April Come She Will," "For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her," "At the Zoo," "A Hazy Shade of Wintertime," "America," "Scarborough Fair/Canticle," "Mrs. Robinson," "The Boxer," "Bridge Over Troubled Water," "Cecilia," "El Condor Pasa," and "My Little Town."
Simon & Garfunkel won five Grammy awards together, ii in 1968 (Record of the Year and Best Contemporary Pop Functioning/ Duo or Group for "Mrs. Robinson"); and three in 1970 (Record of the Year, Album of the Twelvemonth, and Best System Accompanying Vocalists for "Bridge Over Troubled Water," which besides won Song of the Year and Best Engineered Recording). In 1977, "Span Over Troubled H2o" received the prestigious Britannia Honor for "Best International Pop LP and Single, 1952-77," as voted by the music industry of Great Britain. In 1972, Simon & Garfunkel Greatest Hits was released, remaining on the charts for 131 weeks in the US and a staggering 179 weeks in the Uk. The album has since sold fourteen million units - the largest selling album of all time for a duo. In 1990, Paul and Fine art were inducted into the Rock and Scroll Hall of Fame.
"They were fabulous years," Art remembers warmly. "I'll always be happy to say a lilliputian on behalf of the duo. I'm proud of singing those bully songs. Now they teach Paul Simon songs in churches and schools as part of the curricula... it seems that part of good citizenship is the knowledge of the songs we did. How tin can I grasp that?"
Having already worked with director Mike Nichols on The Graduate soundtrack, Fine art went on to feature interim roles in Nichols' movies Catch-22 (1969) and Lecherous Knowledge ('71), opposite Ann-Margret, Candice Bergen and Jack Nicholson. Art also garnered acclaim for his roles in films such as Nicholas Roeg's Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession ('fourscore) with Theresa Russell and Harvey Keitel, Good to Go ('86) and Jennifer Lynch's controversial film, Boxing Helena ('93).
Art Garfunkel's offset solo album, Angel Clare, was released in 1973 to critical and commercial acclaim. The album contained the smash-hit Jimmy Webb penned tune "All I Know" and was produced by long fourth dimension Simon & Garfunkel engineer and co-producer, Roy Halee. Halee also produced "2d Avenue," which became a hit single in 1974.
Breakaway, co-produced with Richard Perry was released in 1975 and independent the mega-hit "I Simply Accept Eyes For You lot." In improver to the title song, the album contained a treasure trove of hits including, "Looking For The Right Ane" (background vocals by David Crosby, Graham Nash and Steven Bishop), "Rag Doll," 99 Miles From LA," the ex-Beach Boy Bruce Johnston'south "Disney Girls," every bit well as a reunion with Paul Simon on "My Little Town."
In 1976, Garfunkel recalls, "I went to Muscle Shoals, Alabama for my third album, Watermark (1977), an entire album of Jimmy Webb songs with the exception of Sam Cooke'south timeless "What a Wonderful World," produced by Phil Ramone, with vocals by Art, Paul Simon and James Taylor.
"Vivid Optics," written and produced past Mike Batt and heavily featured in the animated film version of Watership Down, topped the UK charts in leap 1979. The single sold over a million copies. Fate for Breakfast was released in 1979 and included the striking single "Since I Don't Have You" featuring the brilliant Michael Brecker on tenor saxophone. The album reached #ii on the U.k. charts.
Named one of the all-time albums of 1981 by Rolling Stone Mag, Scissors Cut included the Gallagher & Lyle striking, "A Centre In New York." Stephen Holden in Rolling Stone wrote, this is "Fine art Garfunkel'southward finest anthology, hands justifies his unfashionable formal approach to pop music by its sheer aural beauty." Soon after the release of Scissor Cutting, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel reunited for a concert in New York'south Central Park earlier a crowd of 500,000. Post-obit up on the success of the concert, HBO special and alive anthology (Platinum), the duo undertook a worldwide bout in 1982-83.
The Animals' Christmas, recorded with Amy Grant and the London Symphony Orchestra, was released in 1986. Written by Jimmy Webb and engineered and co-produced by Jeff Emerick (former engineer for The Beatles). Fine art said at the time, "It's a gothic cathedral of an album, very ambitious. Information technology was the blazon of project that would take been washed by papal commission long ago." Emerick connected to work with Art on his sixth solo album, Lefty, released in 1988. It includes a startling remake of Percy Sledge'due south "When a Man Loves a Woman" and a duet with Kenny Rankin on "I Wonder Why."
In the mid-1980'south, Art's obsession with long-distance walking began to come into focus, starting with a three week hike across the rice paddies and back roads of Nippon in 1982. Past 1984, his walk across America was a major role of his annual schedule. Concurrently, "I became a writer for the first fourth dimension in my life," he says, "not a songwriter, but a literary guy." A collection of his prose poetry, Still Water, was published in 1989.
In the spring of 1990, at the asking of the US State Department, Art performed before 1.four million people at an outdoor rally to support and promote democracy in Sofia, Republic of bulgaria. Enjoying the experience of live performances, Art began touring Europe, Asia and the United States in the early Nineties. "I had horrible stage fearfulness, but but going out there and doing it night after dark has brought my adrenaline down to a manageable place. Now I feel I'm just coming into my prime as a phase performer."
Art'south eighth solo album, up 'til now, offered up a compilation of former Simon & Garfunkel rarities, live Garfunkel recordings, and new studio ballads including Art'due south cute duet with James Taylor on "Crying In The Rain," and both the theme for the goggle box serial, "Brooklyn Bridge" as well as "2 Sleepy People" from the film A League of Their Own. The albums release in October coincided with a series of 21 sold-out reunion shows with Paul Simon at New York's Paramount Theater.
Having completed his walk across the United States in 1996, Disney released a documentary-mode video that chronicles Fine art's 12-year walk too equally a celebratory concert at the Registry Hall on Ellis Isle, where Fine art'due south ancestors had first stepped onto American soil. Beyond America, a live CD of the concert was released later that twelvemonth. "My goal," says Art, "was to feel my connection with America, 1 pace at a time."
Getting a scrap restless, Fine art began his walk beyond Europe in 1998. Beginning in County Clare on the western coast of Ireland, Art will continue his trek eastward until he eventually reaches Istanbul. Art says he is "non a treadmill guy... this is my mode of getting exercise."
On the heels of Beyond America, Art recorded Songs From a Parent to a Child, which was nominated for Best Musical Album for Children (1997). The album, inspired past his son James, features renditions of songs past Cat Stevens, Marvin Gaye, Lovin' Spoonful, James Taylor and Lennon/McCartney.
Everything Waits To Exist Noticed, marked Art's debut as a songwriter, as he collaborated with Buddy Mondlock and Maia Sharp on songs inspired by Yet Water. Reviewing the album, Jan Wenner wrote, "I hear elements of everything from the surging folk popular of Buckingham/Nicks-era Fleetwood Mack to the crisp folk-stone sorcery of the Mamas and the Papa to the deft vocal-jazz diction of the Manhattan Transfer. But, above all, I discern a startlingly original chemical science."
In 2003, Paul Simon and Fine art Garfunkel accustomed the Grammy's Lifetime Accomplishment Accolade and performed "Sound of Silence" to open the live circulate. Paul and Fine art decided the time was right for a reunion and announced a worldwide bout that would continue into 2004.
Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel performed together at Madison Square Garden on September 20, 2005 in "From The Big Apple to The Big Easy," a concert for long term relief and rebuilding in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The duo sang "Bridge Over Troubled Water," Homeward Bound" and "Mrs. Robinson." The concert raised $ix million for long-term relief from the hurricane.
Art Garfunkel released his 12th solo album, Some Enchanted Evening in January 2007. The CD is a musical celebration of cloth from the 20th century'south greatest songwriters, including Rodgers & Hammerstein, Irving Berlin, Antonio Carlos Jobim and George Gershwin. "I've been loving this stuff all my life," Art says. The album is the organic adjacent affiliate in Fine art'due south life, as he reflects on fatherhood and the cluttered world nosotros live in: "In this nervous world I want to soothe. It's a great time for moderation, for thoughtfulness, for dialogue, for the great Exhale, for humor. A keen time for a sweet sound, a visceral, mannerly, prayerful sound."
In teaming with his friend and producer, Richard Perry, Fine art institute a forum for his revered vocal style, recapturing the spirit of their Breakaway sessions, which produced the hit "I But Have Eyes For You." "In a sense, Richard and I picked up where we left off. This anthology is Richard'due south elegant production, it fits me good, and I am particularly proud of it" says Art. "Some of the songs I brought in like 'Some Enchanted Evening' and Harold Arlen'southward 'Let's Fall In Love.' I had my favorites and he had his, like 'Life Is But A Dream' and 'Placidity Nights.' We both love Johnny Mathis and Chet Baker."
"I feel somewhat different from many people in the extraordinary corporeality of expert fortune that fell into my lap and made up my life," Art muses. "I rehearsed a lot in my teenage years and actually sought after what this country holds, good fortune for those who go after it with difficult piece of work. But I do experience as I pass through the country, it's a charmed life. I grew up with a lot of love in my family, and then I have the five senses with which to glean the richness of this land as I pass through information technology."
History of the Larcom Theatre - 13 Wallis Street, Beverly MA, USA
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Shows at Beverly's Larcom Theatre 2013 - 2017
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The Larcom Theatre was built in 1912 (the same year equally Boston's Fenway Park) by brothers Harris and Glover Ware (vaudeville musicians from Marblehead, MA) on the birth site of their favorite poet, Lucy Larcom.
The Larcom Theatre's grand opening advertised that its interior was lit completely by electricity.
During its 110 twelvemonth history, The Larcom Theatre has presented phase, screen and musical amusement. In 1984 the Larcom's elegant horseshoe balcony, hand-painted antique pressed tin ceilings and original silk wall coverings were restored to their original glory by Le One thousand David Magic Company, who presented their award-winning magic bear witness there until the company's founder, Cesareo Pelaez, died in 2012.
In April 2013, after the Larcom Theatre had been dark for about a year, Vickie and Peter Van Ness of gimmeLIVE produced a sold-out Mardi Gras Benefit Concert that filled the Larcom Theatre with music for the start time since the days of Vaudeville.
In 2014, gimmeLIVE began bringing Grammy-winning national touring and recording artists and Rock & Ringlet Hall of Famers to the Larcom, which ushered in a new era of top quality amusement in the heart of downtown Beverly, MA. GIMMELIVE concerts at the Larcom Theatre received stellar reviews for the quality of both the music and the audio system installed by gimmeLIVE.
Afterward in 2014, Peter and Vickie co-produced That's When I Know Information technology's Mardi Gras, a alive CD recorded in front of a sold-out audience at the Larcom Theatre featuring New Orleans vocalist Henri Smith with Grammy Award-winners Charles Neville and Amadee Castenell.
In 2015, gimmeLIVE in one case once more recorded a alive CD featuring the James Montgomery Band, which was released in November of that year. GIMMELIVE also hosted James Montgomery's "Live at the Larcom" CD Release Benefit Concert, which raised money for veterans organizations. (Many gimmeLIVE shows enhance money for charity. Click here if you'd like gimmeLIVE to produce a concert or festival to heighten money for your organization.)
In early 2017, gimmeLIVE took over the building adjoining the Larcom Theatre (at ix Wallis Street), formerly owned past members of Le Grand David Magic Company and known equally the Grand Salon. GIMMELIVE transformed this venue into 9 Wallis, which is at present the North Shore's most intimate, elegant listening room offering comfortable show seating at tables with food & beverage service, including fine wines, local craft beers, specialty cocktails (featuring local distilleries and all-natural juices) and top-shelf spirits.
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