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Sunday, November 18, 2007
  • photo: David Garland

    The Valerie Project

    The Valerie Project is an ensemble convened to perform a live musical score to “Valerie and Her Week of Wonders,” an obscure 1970 Czech New Wave film about a thirteen year old girl’s coming of age amid religious turmoil, vampiric entities, shadowy evils, and the beauty of the natural world. The Valerie Project gathers in the WNYC Studio to perform and talk about their music with host David Garland. The music is appropriately psychedelic, with Greg Weeks and Brooke Sietinsons of Espers, and Margaret Ayre of Fern Knight spearheading the ensemble, which includes harpist Mary Lattimore, vocalist Tara Burke (Fursaxa), bassist Jesse Sparhawk (Fern Knight, Timesbold), flautist/keyboardist Jessica Weeks (Woodwose, Grass), and percussionist Jim Ayre (Fern Knight, Rake).

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    The Valerie Project

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Comments

  • [1] mgdu from hell's kitchen November 18, 2007 - 07:17PM

    thanks for reminding me of this film, whose title i had forgotten, which was a real delight when i saw it downstairs at the little carnegie, a beautiful riff on menarche and shunamitism as vampirism


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