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the motown project Virtū

the motown project Virtū

Joe's Pub
January 18 - January 22, 2022 Run Time: 70 minutes

the motown project Virtū
(it's good for the soul)
by Alicia Hall Moran

An underground classic returns: Motown’s greatest hits and opera’s gems collide in this Nightlife event. Emphasis on the beauty of Motown songwriting, Moran sings 1967 and 1867 as earnestly as she does 1667, and often all in the same musical breath. “It just makes sense in my body, in the shape of my mouth, where the passions align. That isn’t about a years or styles. It’s about human beings calling out.” she says. A stellar band of players – on Renaissance flutes and Spanish guitar, shaking Gospel tambourine and drumming Blues, from the opera and R&B — join Alicia Hall Moran on a journey through centuries of Soul.

Joe's Pub
January 18 - January 22, 2022 Run Time: 70 minutes


Artists.

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Alicia Hall Moran

Mezzosoprano and Keyboard

ALICIA HALL MORAN’s 2022 engagements include Chantal (co-composed by Moran) for Washington National Opera, Two Wings: The Migration of Black Music In America for CalPerformances UC Berkeley, Soloist with Orlando Symphony for composer Gabriel Kahane’s contemporary oratorio emergency shelter intake form; a new composition in collaboration with prima ballerina Sara Mearns and choreographer Guillaume Côté, and Breaking Ice, with choreographer Amy Hall Garner and Lyric Opera of the North. Moran’s critically lauded albums Heavy Blue and Here Today center her songs. Moran’s Broadway debut: the Tony Award-winning Porgy & Bess (Ens./Alt. Bess), starring as Bess on 21-city national tour.

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Steven Herring

Baritone

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Shelley Nicole

Vocals & Tambourine

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Josh Plotner

Piccolo, Flute, Clarinet, Recorder, Saxophone

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LaFrae Sci

Percussion

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Thomas Flippin

Guitar, Theorbo

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Tony Scherr

Bass and Guitar

Creative.

Alica Hall Moran
Creator
Amy Hall Garner
Choreography
Thomas Kriegsmann/ArKtype
Producer

Press.

Ultimately, however, the term diva does not quite say enough, for Hall Moran is an artist who plays on rather than accedes to such gendered conventions. In remixing what might otherwise be the canned expressiveness of opera, she elicited an intensely felt response that swept through and revivified the bodies in her thrall. At the same time, she maintained a perfect inscrutability, evoking a long lineage of cultural practitioners bound by social injunction to hide their compulsions and critiques yet nonetheless able to telegraph their dissent.

- Art Forum
What could the bright bounce of the Four Tops have in common with a Mozart aria? On the surface, maybe not much. But the mezzo-soprano vocalist and composer Alicia Hall Moran didn’t conceive of “The Motown Project” 12 years ago to push some argument about common ground. Melding together works from the operatic and Motown canons, this suite is an inner monologue as much as a formal experiment. And it has evolved alongside her life; its pieces have cropped up on both her studio albums, “Heavy Blue” (2015) and “Here Today” (2017), and its public performances have inevitably changed as she has involved different collaborators. Hall Moran has recorded a lockdown-era version of the suite piecemeal, working with different musicians in a variety of settings: at the Manhattan jazz club Smoke; at Firehouse 12, a studio and performance center in New Haven, Conn.; and via Zoom. Joe’s Pub will broadcast this latest iteration on its website on Friday at 8 p.m. Eastern time; streaming passes are free but must be reserved in advance.

- The New York Times
Her presence and her vocalization gifts are striking, mesmerizing, and deep. Her talent and sense of self comes pouring out across the screen as vibrant, large, and colorful as the Grandiflora roses she carries.

- The Front Row Center

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