Morricone Youth is a New York City band formed in 1999 dedicated to writing, performing and recording music written for the moving image (e.g., film and television soundtrack and library production music ). The band is composed of present or past members of Creedle , The Rugburns , Crash Worship , Palomar , Pretendo , Pain Teens , Yellowbirds , Fruit Bats and Mikael Jorgensen of Wilco 's Pronto.
23-466: Morricone may refer to: Morricone Youth , an American band 152188 Morricone , an asteroid People with the surname [ edit ] Andrea Morricone (born 1964), Italian composer and conductor Ennio Morricone (1928–2020), Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and trumpet player Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
46-544: A festival focusing on independent films . Katy Clark was president from 2015 and left the institution in 2021. Artists who have presented work at BAM include Philip Glass , Trisha Brown , Peter Brook , Pina Bausch , Merce Cunningham , Bill T. Jones /Arnie Zane Company, Laurie Anderson , Lee Breuer , ETHEL , Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan , Steve Reich , Seal , Mark Morris , Robert Wilson , Peter Sellars , BLACKstreet , Ingmar Bergman , David Van Tieghem , Michael Moschen , Twyla Tharp , Ralph Lemon , Ivo van Hove , and
69-673: A flexible event space which houses the BAMcafé, and the Hillman Attic Studio, a flexible rehearsal/performing space. The BAM Strong, an array of spaces, includes the 874-seat BAM Harvey Theater at 651 Fulton Street. Formerly known as the Majestic Theater, it was built in 1904 with 1,708 seats and eventually showed vaudeville and then feature films, and was named in Lichtenstein's honor in 1999. A renovation by architect Hugh Hardy left
92-523: A high base of gray granite , with cream colored brick trimmed in terracotta with some marble detail above. The Howard Gilman Opera House has 2,109 seats and BAM Rose Cinemas, which opened in 1998, comprises four screens, and primarily shows first-run, independent and repertory films and series. Also within the Peter Jay Sharp Building is the Lepercq Space, originally a ballroom and now
115-662: A weekly Internet radio show from 2007 to 2014 under the same name on East Village Radio playing primarily obscure film and television soundtracks and library music and interviewing soundtrack composers such as Lalo Schifrin , Howard Blake , Irmin Schmidt of Can , Claudio Simonetti and Maurizio Guarini of Goblin, Sven Libaek , John Lurie , Danny Elfman , Elliot Goldenthal , Cliff Martinez , Carter Burwell , Fabio Frizzi , Alessandro Alessandroni , Jean Michel Jarre , Suzanne Ciani , Andrzej Korzynski , Warren Ellis and Alan Howarth . The radio show has since moved to WFMU under
138-479: Is incorporated as a New York State not-for-profit corporation . It has 501(c)(3) status. Gina Duncan has served as president since April 2022. David Binder became artistic director in 2019. On October 21, 1858, a meeting was held at the Polytechnic Institute to measure support for establishing "a hall adapted to Musical, Literary, Scientific and other occasional purposes, of sufficient size to meet
161-644: The Mariinsky Theater , directed and conducted by Valery Gergiev , among others. American punk band Hole recorded their live album MTV Unplugged at the Academy on February 14, 1995. Alice in Chains also recorded their live album Unplugged at the Academy on April 10, 1996 at the Majestic Theater (now the Harvey Theater) for MTV Unplugged . Alanis Morissette also recorded her live album MTV Unplugged at
184-687: The Academy on September 18, 1999. The Peter Jay Sharp Building in the Fort Greene Historic District houses the Howard Gilman Opera House and the BAM Rose Cinemas (formerly the Carey Playhouse). It was designed by the firm Herts & Tallant in 1908, in the renaissance revival style. It is a U-shaped building with an open court in the center of the lot between two theater wings above the first story. The building has
207-704: The London Fog (1927), George A. Romero 's Night of the Living Dead (1968), Ron and Valerie Taylor 's Inner Space (1972), Robert Clouse 's Enter the Dragon (1973), Jack Hill 's Foxy Brown (1974), Mario Bava 's Danger: Diabolik (1968), Saul Bass 's Phase IV (1974), George Miller 's Mad Max (1979), Sergei Eisenstein 's Battleship Potemkin (1925) and F.W. Murnau 's Nosferatu (1922) and Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927). In addition to composing its own compositions and themes for such films,
230-740: The United States in 1889-1890, Egyptologist and founder of the Egypt Exploration Society Amelia Edwards gave her first and last lectures here, in November and March, respectively. After the building burned to the ground on November 30, 1903, BAM made plans to relocate to a new facility in Fort Greene, Brooklyn . Herts & Tallant designed the new building. The cornerstone was laid at 30 Lafayette Avenue on May 25, 1907. A series of opening events were held in November 1908;
253-413: The annual Next Wave Festival in 1983, featuring performances by international and American artists. The Chelsea Theater Center was in residence from 1967 to 1977. From 1999 to 2015, Karen Brooks Hopkins was president, and Joseph V. Melillo was executive producer through 2018. 30 Lafayette Avenue's facade was restored for $ 8.6 million in 2004. A regular event as of 2012 was BAMcinemaFest,
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#1733084902197276-468: The band is committed to reinterpreting portions of the original score for each film it performs. Morricone Youth is currently in the process of recording and releasing a vinyl (and digital) LP or EP for each of the fifteen live scores it has performed to date. The first two, EPs for Night of the Living Dead and The Adventures of Prince Achmed , were released in September 2016. A full length LP for Mad Max
299-480: The first opera to be staged there was the Metropolitan Opera production of Faust . It was also used for religious services during the early 1900s, when Charles Taze Russell , founder of the bible students movement (now Jehovah's Witnesses and International Bible Students Association ), gave sermons there. The Waltann School of Creative Arts (WSCA), founded in 1959, located at 1078 Park Place, Brooklyn,
322-535: The inaugural address on the opening, the management announced that no dramatic performance should ever be held within its walls. The first concert opened with the overture to Der Freischütz , followed by arias and excerpts from various operas, including the William Tell Overture which opened part 2 of the concert. Founded in 1861, the first BAM facility at 176–194 Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights
345-714: The interior paint faded, with often exposed masonry, giving the theater a unique feel of a "modern ruin". In April 2014, CNN named the BAM Harvey as one of the "15 of the World's Most Spectacular Theaters". The complex also features a dedicated art gallery. The BAM Fisher Building, opened in 2012, contains Fishman Space, a 250-seat black box theater , and Fisher Hillman Studio, a flexible rehearsal and performance space, as well as administrative offices. The BAM Hamm Archives are located off-site in Crown Heights at 1000 Dean St. and maintain
368-596: The new name Morricone Island. Bassist John Castro is the son of bebop jazz pianist Joe Castro . Albums : EPs : Brooklyn Academy of Music The Brooklyn Academy of Music ( BAM ) is a multi-arts center in Brooklyn , New York City. It hosts progressive and avant-garde performances, with theater, dance, music, opera, film programming across multiple nearby venues. BAM was chartered in 1859, presented its first show in 1861, and began operations in its present location in Fort Greene, Brooklyn , in 1908. The Academy
391-638: The people who play them. The film premiered at the SXSW Film Festival in March 2008. Although the band was mostly inactive from 2007 to 2010, Morricone Youth resumed performing live in 2011. Current members include Devon E. Levins (guitar), John Castro (bass/vocals), Dan Kessler and Jefferson Rabb (analog keyboards/synthesizers), Evan Francis and Fraser Campbell (saxophone, flute, clarinet), Aaron Bahr (trumpet), Sami Stevens (vocals), and Brian Kantor and Eric Reeves (drums). Guitarist/founder Devon E. Levins hosted
414-814: The publicly accessible Levy Digital Archive. The BAM Sharp and Fisher Buildings are located within the Brooklyn Academy of Music Historic District created by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1978; the BAM Strong is not. BAM is adjacent to downtown Brooklyn , near Atlantic Terminal , the Barclays Center arena, and the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower (once the tallest building in Brooklyn). BAM
437-523: The requirements of our large population and worth in style and appearance of our city." The group applied to the New York State Legislature for a charter in the name of Brooklyn Academy of Music. The New York Legislature passed the bill to incorporate the Brooklyn Academy of Music on February 16, 1859. The group raised $ 60,000 by November 22 and another $ 90,000 by March 16, 1859. The Brooklyn Academy of Music opened on January 15, 1861. At
460-894: The title Morricone . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Morricone&oldid=966494837 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Morricone Youth The band regularly composes and performs original music to projected films (e.g., silent films, midnight movies, animated films) in live settings including Jean Rollin 's Fascination (1979), David Lynch 's Eraserhead (1977), Rene Laloux 's Fantastic Planet (1973), Lotte Reiniger 's The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), Alfred Hitchcock 's The Lodger: A Story of
483-492: Was a BAM venue during the 1960s and 1970s. One of the dance teachers there was African American contemporary dancer Carole Johnson , and the Eleo Pomare Dance Company performed there in 1967. In 1967, Harvey Lichtenstein was appointed executive director and during his 32 years in that role, BAM experienced a turnaround, attracting audiences with new programming and establishing an endowment. BAM began hosting
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#1733084902197506-527: Was conceived as the home of the Philharmonic Society of Brooklyn . The building, designed by architect Leopold Eidlitz , housed a large theater seating 2,109, a smaller concert hall, dressing and chorus rooms, and a vast "baronial" kitchen. BAM presented amateur and professional music and theater productions, including performers such as Ellen Terry , Edwin Booth , and Fritz Kreisler . On her lecture tour of
529-1011: Was released in January 2017 and the Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans LP is scheduled for release on August 9, 2017. The band has performed at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Philadelphia Museum of Art , Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art ( MASS MoCA ) and Sydney Festival . In 2017, the band supported 1970s Italian prog soundtrack legends Goblin on their North American "Sound of Fear" tour. Morricone Youth recorded its debut full length album of original music entitled Silenzio Violento in 2004 with Martin Bisi at B.C. Studio in Brooklyn, New York released on October 8, 2005 by Country Club Records. Four songs from Silenzio Violento were used in documentary film Second Skin directed by Juan Carlos Pineiro about MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) and
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