Chutzpah! Festival: Gary Lucas - Frankenstein and Spanish Dracula
Guitarist and composer Gary Lucas PERFORMS LIVE his compositions during each of these iconic films Frankenstein and Spanish Dracula
Date/Time: Oct 30 2019, 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm
Vancouver, The Norman Rothstein Theatre | Event calendar950 West 41st Ave
P: (604) 257-5111
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Cost: $29.50
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Canadian premiere
“One of the best and most original guitarists in America…a modern guitar miracle” -Rolling Stone
Gary Lucas is dubbed “The Thinking Man’s Guitar Hero” by The New Yorker, “The world’s most popular avant-rock guitarist” by The Independent (UK), “One of the 100 Greatest Living Guitarists” (Classic Rock).
A world class guitar hero, a Grammy-nominated songwriter and composer, an international recording artist with over 30 acclaimed solo albums to date, and a soundtrack composer for film and television, Gary Lucas is on the move in 2019. His work with Jeff Buckley, Captain Beefheart and Gods and Monsters makes him one of the world’s most popular avant- rock guitarists.
“The startling fecundity of Gary Lucas’ musical imagination would probably suffice to make him an able creator of film scores. But Gary has more than that. He has an impeccable understanding of, and sensitivity to, cinema itself. Not to mention deep knowledge and unflagging enthusiasm. To see and hear him play, to be in the room as he weaves his string magic while the variegated lights and shadows of whatever movie he’s accompanying dance on the screen, is an essential experience.” Glenn Kenny, Film and music critic at RogerEbert.com, The New York Times, Current
7:00 PM: FRANKENSTEIN – Gary Lucas’s haunting score for James Whale’s Frankenstein and his plangent guitar is the perfect accompaniment to Whale’s classic example of Hollywood expressionism. Gary provides the outre underscore throughout, with a combination of composed themes and wild flights of improvisational sonic wizardry.
9:00 PM: SPANISH DRACULA – a mysterious and terrifying 1931 Spanish language version of Dracula, filmed on the same set as the Bela Lugosi classic. Lucas transforms this obscure, cult horror with a score that LA weekly called “simultaneously bluesy and creepy” and The Guardian gave it 4 stars for his performance at the London Jazz Festival.
“…Dracula did not need to rise from his coffin in order to return from the realm of the dead; he did it through the guitar of this legendary musician” GRANMA (Cuba)
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