WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT SUBWAY MOON...
“The Gateshead International Jazz Festival's grand education project, Subway Moon, must have been a life-changing experience for its participants....It was the most inspiring performance I've seen in years.”
--Philip Johnson, "Gateshead International Jazz Festival,” The Independent (full review here), April 3, 2011
“The result was not the one that we usually applaud at conventional school concerts, but a summit meeting rightly celebrating three separate bands....Together with the impressive videos projected onto a large screen they delivered a total work of art (Gesamtkunstwerk). Work from the music and art classes at both schools prove the value of funding arts education, which often loses out to the supposedly more important subjects as math and natural sciences.”
--Dirk Wagner, Süddeutsche Zeitung (full review in English here), January 29, 2013
"It was a terrfic program that fed the soul in multiple ways--through Nathanson's poetry and music, through the musicians' performance, through Gurian's video, and again, through Nathanson's vibrant, athletic commitment to the whole of this performance."
--Seth Rogovoy, The Rogovoy Report, November 18, 2007
"On an ambitious weekender that includes Cleo Laine, Joe Lovano and Iain Bellamy...the Subway Moon project still stands out, a community venture promising much more than just a knees up for the local citizenry....Subway Moon now features...90 minutes of music and visuals, including what Nathanson calls 'an ode to the survival instincts of a New York City rat....which of course has great rat footage.'"
--John Fordham, The Guardian (full article here), March 26, 2011
“A delight for the ears and an educational and musical awakening that had to be so motivating for young people from both continents....I was impressed by both the diversity of musical styles (jazz, funk, rock, jazz to spoken word ...) and by their performance level. For singers...the phrasing flowed naturally....And this is the most important thing: beyond the final musical production, it is to take pleasure in what you do. And pleasure seemed shared by all the musicians on stage, professionals and beginners.
“What about the professional artists? Formula Roy Nathanson - Napoleon Maddox always sounds right, allowing the first to put his own poems in rhythm. By adding Bill Ware on vibes, E.J. Rodriguez on drums, Tim Kiah on bass, as that is the basic rhythm of the strongest and most musical. And it is clear that the sound of blues trombonist Curtis Flowlkes not leave you indifferent. The collaboration was strengthened by the presence of Samuel Bardfeld violin and the flute of Magik Malik.
“To improve the sound universe, a world 'visual,' the metro New York and Paris Metro on the big screen.
“Simply, bravo!”
--Akcentuate the positive, April, 2008
“The Gateshead International Jazz Festival's grand education project, Subway Moon, must have been a life-changing experience for its participants....It was the most inspiring performance I've seen in years.”
--Philip Johnson, "Gateshead International Jazz Festival,” The Independent (full review here), April 3, 2011
“The result was not the one that we usually applaud at conventional school concerts, but a summit meeting rightly celebrating three separate bands....Together with the impressive videos projected onto a large screen they delivered a total work of art (Gesamtkunstwerk). Work from the music and art classes at both schools prove the value of funding arts education, which often loses out to the supposedly more important subjects as math and natural sciences.”
--Dirk Wagner, Süddeutsche Zeitung (full review in English here), January 29, 2013
"It was a terrfic program that fed the soul in multiple ways--through Nathanson's poetry and music, through the musicians' performance, through Gurian's video, and again, through Nathanson's vibrant, athletic commitment to the whole of this performance."
--Seth Rogovoy, The Rogovoy Report, November 18, 2007
"On an ambitious weekender that includes Cleo Laine, Joe Lovano and Iain Bellamy...the Subway Moon project still stands out, a community venture promising much more than just a knees up for the local citizenry....Subway Moon now features...90 minutes of music and visuals, including what Nathanson calls 'an ode to the survival instincts of a New York City rat....which of course has great rat footage.'"
--John Fordham, The Guardian (full article here), March 26, 2011
“A delight for the ears and an educational and musical awakening that had to be so motivating for young people from both continents....I was impressed by both the diversity of musical styles (jazz, funk, rock, jazz to spoken word ...) and by their performance level. For singers...the phrasing flowed naturally....And this is the most important thing: beyond the final musical production, it is to take pleasure in what you do. And pleasure seemed shared by all the musicians on stage, professionals and beginners.
“What about the professional artists? Formula Roy Nathanson - Napoleon Maddox always sounds right, allowing the first to put his own poems in rhythm. By adding Bill Ware on vibes, E.J. Rodriguez on drums, Tim Kiah on bass, as that is the basic rhythm of the strongest and most musical. And it is clear that the sound of blues trombonist Curtis Flowlkes not leave you indifferent. The collaboration was strengthened by the presence of Samuel Bardfeld violin and the flute of Magik Malik.
“To improve the sound universe, a world 'visual,' the metro New York and Paris Metro on the big screen.
“Simply, bravo!”
--Akcentuate the positive, April, 2008
