Culture Project Presents Sting, Trudie Styler and Joshua Bell in “Twin Spirits”
Media Advisory
for Wednesday, June 30th
CULTURE PROJECT PRESENTS
STING, TRUDIE STYLER AND JOSHUA BELL IN
“T W I N S P I R I T S”
NARRATED BY DAVID STRATHAIRN
A CELEBRATION OF COMPOSER ROBERT SCHUMANN’S 200th BIRTHDAY
AT JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER
Who: “Twin Spirits” performers Sting, Trudie Styler, Academy Award nominee David Strathairn, Joshua Bell, Jeremy Denk, Nathan Gunn, Nina Kotova, Natasha Paremski and Camille Zamora with Tony Award-winning director John Caird.
What: A very special New York performance celebrating the 200th birthday of composer Robert Schumann. Twin Spirits is a poetic meditation on the passionate relationship between Schumann and wife Clara Wieck.
Photo-op to precede the event.
When/Where: Wednesday, June 30, 2010
The Allen Room at
Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of
Jazz at Lincoln Center
Broadway at 60th Street
Set-up: 6:45 p.m.
Photo-Op: 7:00 p.m.
Event begins: 7:30 p.m.
Note: Sting joins his wife, actress, producer and philanthropist Trudie Styler to read from the letters between Robert Schumann and his wife Clara. Their story is illustrated and interwoven with music composed by Robert – whose spirit will be embodied by pianist Jeremy Denk, baritone Nathan Gunn and violinist Joshua Bell – and by Clara, who is evoked by pianist Natasha Paremski, soprano Camille Zamora, and cellist Nina Kotova.
Twin Spirits was first performed in 2005, and was recorded before a small audience in a small studio space at London’s Royal Opera House in 2007, and released on the Opus Arte label in 2009.
RSVP to Elizabeth Wagner
elizabeth@oandmco.com / (212) 695-7400