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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008, 4PM
Page of
Madness
The 2008
Sydney Film Festival presents a live
performance of Phillip Johnston's original score
for Teinosuke Kinugasa's 1926 Japanes silent film masterpiece.
featuring:
Phillip Johnston: soprano, alto saxophone
Daryl Pratt: vibraphone
Chris Abraham: piano
Lloyd Swanton: bass
Henry Bean's new film Noise,
starring Tim Robbins,
William Hurt, Bridget Moynihan and William Baldwin and is now playing
in the US.
The New Yorker called it, "a soul journey posing as a comedy" and the
Village Voice calls it "an action comedy of ideas."
Noise
features an original score by Phillip
Johnston.
Friday, July 11th, 2008,
8:30PM
Ned
Rothenberg performs at
SIMA's Sound
Lounge at The Seymour Centre.
special guests:
Chris Abrahams: piano
Phillip Johnston: saxophone.
Saturday, October 4th, 2008, 7:30PM
Parramatta
Riverside Theatre
's Big Note series presents:
Phillip Johnston & the Coolerators
featuring:
Phillip Johnston: alto saxophone
Alister Spence: organ
Steve Arie: bass
Toby Hall: drums
Saturday Oct 11th, 2008
Sunday Oct 12th, 2008
The Melbourne
International Festival of the Arts
presents Phillip Johnston's original score for
F.W. Murnau's Faust (1927)
Lauren Easton: voice
Elizabeth Jones: piano-accordion
John Napier: cello
Phillip Johnston: alto saxophone, piano, ukulele
In 2007,
the
The Microscopic Septet toured Europe, played in New York City
and
recorded
their first new CD since 1998, which is due out on
Cuneiform
Records in September 2008. In October/November 2008 they will
be performing
in the Northeast US and in Europe. Details tba.
Visit the Microscopic Septet website for
further details.
Visit the Microscopic Septet Myspace.com
page