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Dan Plonsey
Dan Plonsey: Open Door and Desire
by Glenn Astarita
A resident of the San Francisco Bay area, saxophonist/composer and overall free thinker, Dan Plonsey has studied with Anthony Braxton, attended Yale University, written Operas while also a member of Eugene Chadbourne’s West Coast version of “Insect & Western. On Open Door and Desire Mr. Plonsey, exhibits his aesthetic and thoroughly imaginative talents as he performs several pieces that comprise multi-tracked saxophones along with his intermittent employment of delightfully cheesy electric keyboards. No doubt, Plonsey is a creative soul who ...
read moreLeave Me Alone!, a Jazz Opera by Harvey Pekar and Dan Plonsey Premieres at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music on January 31
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All About Jazz
LEAVE ME ALONE!, A JAZZ OPERA BY HARVEY PEKAR AND DAN PLONSEY, TO PREMIERE AT THE OBERLIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC AND VIA WEBCAST ON JANUARY 31, 2009 American Splendor Icon Pekar Focuses His Sardonic Wit on the Everyday Struggles of Avant-Garde Artists, with Music from Cleveland-born Composer and Saxophonist Plonsey OBERLIN, OHIO -- The iconic underground comic book author Harvey Pekar will make his operatic debut at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Leave Me Alone!, an autobiographical jazz opera. ...
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