David Greenberger (of Duplexplanet.com fame) is nearing the end of his Residency in Applied Arts at the Center on Age & Community (which I direct) at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. We’ll miss his elvish humor and deep-souled good-guyness. Today, he and local collaborator Paul Cebar (and a couple of Paul’s musician friends) played about 5 of the songs they’d created, inspired by David’s conversations with local Milwaukee folks with memory loss.
The venue was less than ideal – a big banquet hall with low ceilings and no stage – even giant pillars blocking the view of the 300 folks gathered for the Milwaukee Aging Consortium’s annual Networking Fair. But the short musical pieces, built of Paul’s soulful guitar, drums, keyboard and horns, and David’s perfectly tuned jazz-styled readings, were echanting. Delicate, unique jazz improv snowflakes capturing the delicate conversations that are gone once they hit your hand. Thank you David, thank you Paul. We hope to bring them back in May for a fully staged show that can really do justice to the beauty of what they created in their three month collaboration in Milwaukee.
David Greenberger and Paul Cebar by Jimherrington.com
