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Bill murray,
jan vogler & friends
SUN, MAR 18 | DELL HALL | 7:30PM
Bill Murray Sings Gershwin and Talks
Whitman in "New Worlds"
Always a curious character, Hollywood mainstay Bill Murray
is striking a new creative tone. Teaming up with German
cellist Jan Vogler, the two have devised a surprising program
of spoken literary classics against a backdrop of musical pieces
from all genres—"e Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" set
to "Moon River," Hemingway with Ravel.
is Spring Murray and Vogler bring this joint program
that showcases the core of American values in literature and
music to the city of Austin, combining classical pieces with
spoken word to create a show that communicates the bridges
artists have built between America and Europe over the past
several centuries. Twain, Hemingway, Whitman, Cooper,
Bernstein, Gershwin and Foster are some of the strongest
voices that influenced generations of humans in America and
gave the world a picture of the charm, energy and creative
force of the New World.
Together with violinist Mira Wang and pianist Vanessa Perez,
Murray and Vogler create a quartet of American experience.
"I am bathing in this experience, really," says Murray. "I can't
get enough of it." ■
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