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Composer(s) |
Performer(s) |
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| Funeral for the Fallen Martyrs: You Can Kill a ... |
Fred Ho
Paul Chan
Jayne Cortez
Andrea Lockett
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Afro Asian Music Ensemble
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1:48 |
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| All Power to the People! Serve/Organize the ... |
Fred Ho
Paul Chan
Jayne Cortez
Andrea Lockett
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Afro Asian Music Ensemble
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4:13 |
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| The Opposition! |
Fred Ho
Paul Chan
Jayne Cortez
Andrea Lockett
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Afro Asian Music Ensemble
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2:03 |
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| The March of the Oppressed! |
Fred Ho
Paul Chan
Jayne Cortez
Andrea Lockett
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Afro Asian Music Ensemble
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3:20 |
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| Standing on the Edgs of Forever: Seize the Time... |
Fred Ho
Paul Chan
Jayne Cortez
Andrea Lockett
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Afro Asian Music Ensemble
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5:47 |
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| Making the Movement While Making the Vanguard! |
Fred Ho
Paul Chan
Jayne Cortez
Andrea Lockett
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Afro Asian Music Ensemble
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3:07 |
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| Political Power Doesn't Grow Out of a Sleeve of... |
Fred Ho
Paul Chan
Jayne Cortez
Andrea Lockett
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Afro Asian Music Ensemble
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3:38 |
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| Loving the People is a Love Supreme! The ... |
Fred Ho
Paul Chan
Jayne Cortez
Andrea Lockett
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Afro Asian Music Ensemble
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1:05 |
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| Dance of Discipline: Class Struggle Makes the ... |
Fred Ho
Paul Chan
Jayne Cortez
Andrea Lockett
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Afro Asian Music Ensemble
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5:46 |
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| The Infiltration (the Oily Opportunist Works ... |
Fred Ho
Paul Chan
Jayne Cortez
Andrea Lockett
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Afro Asian Music Ensemble
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2:25 |
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| To Be Destroyed! |
Fred Ho
Paul Chan
Jayne Cortez
Andrea Lockett
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Afro Asian Music Ensemble
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1:06 |
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| Moving Forward: Self-Respect, Self-Defense, ... |
Fred Ho
Paul Chan
Jayne Cortez
Andrea Lockett
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Afro Asian Music Ensemble
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5:24 |
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| Reprise: Victory Parade |
Fred Ho
Paul Chan
Jayne Cortez
Andrea Lockett
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Afro Asian Music Ensemble
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1:15 |
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| Arm the Sisters to Disarm the Patriarchal ... |
Fred Ho
Paul Chan
Jayne Cortez
Andrea Lockett
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Afro Asian Music Ensemble
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2:27 |
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| Fight, Fail, Fight Again Until Victory! (By ... |
Fred Ho
Paul Chan
Jayne Cortez
Andrea Lockett
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Afro Asian Music Ensemble
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5:30 |
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Fred Ho is not a man to mince words—especially when the subjects are music, politics, or, as is the case with his ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! The Black Panther Suite, an emotionally charged marriage of music, politics, digital video mixing, and martial arts ballet. As the Brooklyn-based composer, saxophonist, writer, theater director, activist, and visionary-at-large puts it: "I believe that the same issues of thirty years ago continue today with even more urgency and intensity. That's why I envision ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE, not as a docu-drama looking back to the late-1960s/early-1970s, but as an occasion to continue the energy, spirit, and vision of that period and link it to today."
Ho pulls no punches. Augmented by an electric guitarist and an octet of African percussionists, his Afro Asian Music Ensemble rekindles the Panthers' legendary fire (invoking deities ranging from Armstrong and Ellington to Mingus and Coltrane in the process), especially when Ho focuses his ferociously refined baritone sax on the scene. The work's multi-sensory media collage (generated by video artist extraordinaire Paul Chan), making for an extraordinary unique and provocative multi-media vision-quest; and martial arts choreography add massive visual flair, as well as a much-needed incadescent blast of sound and politics. To put it simply, The Black Panther Suite blasts the lock off America's citadel of lies, rescues the Panthers' legacy from the clutches of goody-two-shoes revisionists, and delivers it—alive and kicking—to the place where it is most needed—literally, in our souls.
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New York Times
“[Ho] achieves his cross-cultural goals with skill, grace, and humor. The music merges Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus with Chinese instruments and vocal styles from Western opera, Chinese opera, and jazz; for a fusion that never seems forced. Mr. Ho's act of East-West fusion has an audacious integrity.
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by Jon Pareles
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