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Pink Martini Thomas Lauderdale piano Storm Large vocals Nicholas Crosa violin Timothy Nishimoto vocals, percussion Phil Baker bass Daniel Faehnle guitar Anthony Jones drums Brian Davis drums, percussion Derek Rieth percussion Antonis Andreou trombone Gavin Bondy trumpet ~90’ sans entracte / ohne Pause / without intermission Pops Jeudi / Donnerstag / Thursday 10.10.2013 20:00 Grand Auditorium

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Pink MartiniThomas Lauderdale pianoStorm Large vocalsNicholas Crosa violinTimothy Nishimoto vocals, percussionPhil Baker bassDaniel Faehnle guitarAnthony Jones drumsBrian Davis drums, percussionDerek Rieth percussionAntonis Andreou tromboneGavin Bondy trumpet

~90’ sans entracte / ohne Pause / without intermission

PopsJeudi / Donnerstag / Thursday10.10.2013 20:00Grand Auditorium

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InterprètesBiographies

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Pink MartiniLe plus français des groupes américains, après 2 disques d’or et 1 disque de platine, revient en octobre sur le devant de la scène avec «A Retrospective», son premier best of. Il s’agit d’une œuvre complète, qui illustre l’appétit créatif de Thomas Lauderdale, fondateur du groupe, depuis 15 ans: en plus d’of-frir une perspective originale sur le passé d’un groupe devenu aujourd’hui incontournable, elle comprend 7 morceaux inédits (dont «Moon River», en duo avec Gus Van Sant). Savant mé-lange de sonorités et de cultures de tous horizons, la musique de Pink Martini est un cocktail à déguster sans modération.L’aventure Pink Martini débute en 1994, dans l’Oregon. Origi-nellement centré autour de Thomas M. Lauderdale et China Forbes, le groupe aux inspirations et collaborations multiples chante en anglais, français, mais aussi espagnol, italien, japo-nais, croate… Leur style musical, éclectique, passe «d’une samba digne d’une parade à Rio de Janeiro à la musique d’un cabaret français des années 30 ou d’un palais napolitain, un peu comme une sorte de voyage musical urbain», d’après les mots de Thomas Lauderdale. «On essaye de créer une sorte de char-mant environnement musical, dont on peut augmenter ou bais-ser le volume, et jouer en toute occasion, ou presque: musique d’ambiance, aventure amoureuse ou quand on passe l’aspira-teur chez soi!». Un cocktail qui fait effet, puisque leurs chan-sons ont été utilisées dans divers films (Nurse Betty, In The Cut), séries (The Sopranos, Dead Like Me) et publicités.

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Leur premier album, «Sympathique», sort en 1997 chez Heinz Records, sous licence Naïve en Europe. On y retrouve le mor-ceau-phare «Je ne veux pas travailler», qui va faire connaître le groupe en Europe en étant la bande-son de la publicité pour la Picasso de Citroën. Cet album se vendra à plus de 650 000 exemplaires, et «Je ne veux pas travailler» sera sacrée Chanson de l’Année aux Victoires de la Musique en 2000.

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Sept ans plus tard, c’est au tour de «Hang On Little Tomato» de voir le jour. Dans la lignée de «Sympathique», il confirme le potentiel du groupe, notamment en France, où il est certifié Disque de Platine.Vient ensuite «Hey Eugene» en 2007, du nom du tube pop, racontant une déception amoureuse, acclamé par le public. Plus léger que les albums précédents, «même s’il y a d’inévi-tables moments mélancoliques», admet Thomas Lauderdale, ce 3e effort est sans conteste le plus gros succès médiatique du groupe à ce jour.

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Symboles de l’énergie créative sans cesse grandissante de Thomas Lauderdale, les 4e et 5e albums du groupe, «Splendor in the Grass» et «Joy to the World», ne sortent qu’à une seule année d’intervalle, respectivement en 2009 et 2010. Le premier, entre jazz, cha-cha-cha en français et adaptation de thèmes classiques, comprend 13 chansons, dont 4 reprises. Sur le deu-xième, enregistré pour les fêtes de Noël, les douze musiciens ont choisi de revisiter de grands classiques comme «White

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Christmas», mais aussi des morceaux moins connus, en s’en-tourant toujours de chœurs et d’autres figures de la chanson (la japonaise Saori Yuki par exemple, avec qui ils viennent d’ail-leurs d’enregistrer un album).C’est le 23 septembre 2013 que sort leur nouvel album studio «Get Happy». «Je suis très content de notre nouvel album ‹Get Happy›, un al-bum qui réunit nos deux chanteuses principales China Forbes et Storm Large, mais aussi Philippe Katerine, Rufus Wainwright, Ari Shapiro, les Von Trapps, la grande chanteuse de cabaret Meow Meow, le talentueux clarinettiste de 95 ans Norman Leyden et la pionnière légendaire du cinéma Phyllis Diller. Cet album regroupe 16 chansons chantées en neuf langues diffé-rentes… C’est un album pour tomber amoureux ou rompre… pour passer l’aspirateur ou pour conduire!» (Thomas Lauderdale)

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Pink MartiniIn 1994 in his hometown of Portland, Oregon, Thomas Lauder-dale was working in politics, thinking that one day he would run for mayor. Like other eager politicians-in-training, he went to every political fundraiser under the sun… but was dismayed to find the music at these events underwhelming, lackluster, loud and un-neighborly. Drawing inspiration from music from all over the world – crossing genres of classical, jazz and old-fashioned pop – and hoping to appeal to conservatives and liberals alike, he founded the «little orchestra» Pink Martini in 1994 to pro-vide more beautiful and inclusive musical soundtracks for politi-cal fundraisers for causes such as civil rights, affordable hous-ing, the environment, libraries, public broadcasting, education and parks.One year later, Lauderdale called China Forbes, a Harvard class-mate who was living in New York City, and asked her to join Pink Martini. They began to write songs together. Their first song «Sympathique» became an overnight sensation in France, and to this day remains a mantra («Je ne veux pas travailler») for striking French workers. Says Lauderdale, «We’re very much

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an American band, but we spend a lot of time abroad and there-fore have the incredible diplomatic opportunity to represent a broader, more inclusive America… the America which remains the most heterogeneously populated country in the world… composed of people of every country, every language, every religion.»Featuring 10 to 12 musicians, Pink Martini performs its multi-

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lingual repertoire on concert stages and with symphony orches- tras throughout Europe, Asia, Greece, Turkey, the Middle East, Northern Africa, Australia, New Zealand, South America and North America. Pink Martini made its European debut at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997 and its orchestral debut with the Oregon Symphony in 1998 under the direction of Norman Leyden. Since then, the band has gone on to play with more than 50 orchestras around the world, including multiple engagements with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, the Boston Pops, the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center, the San

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Francisco Symphony, and the BBC Concert Orchestra at Royal Albert Hall in London. Other appearances include the grand open- ing of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, with return sold-out engagements for New Year’s Eve 2003, 2004, 2008 and 2011; two sold-out concerts at Carnegie Hall; the opening party of the remodeled Museum of Modern Art in New York City; the Governor’s Ball at the 80th An- nual Academy Awards in 2008; the opening of the 2008 Sydney Festival in Australia; two sold-out concerts at Paris’ legendary L’Olympia Theatre in 2011; and Paris’ fashion house Lanvin’s 10-year anniversary celebration for designer Alber Elbaz in 2012.Pink Martini’s debut album «Sympathique» was released in-dependently in 1997 on the band’s own label Heinz Records (named after Lauderdale’s dog), and quickly became an interna-tional phenomenon, garnering the group nominations for Song of the Year and Best New Artist in France’s Victoires de la Mu-sique Awards in 2000. Pink Martini released «Hang On Little Tomato» in 2004, «Hey Eugene!» in 2007 and «Splendor In The Grass» in 2009. In November 2010 the band released «Joy To The World» –a festive, multi-denominational holiday album fea-turing songs from around the globe. All five albums have gone gold in France, Canada, Greece and Turkey, and have sold well over 2.5 million copies worldwide.In fall 2011 the band released two albums – «A Retrospective», a collection of the band’s most beloved songs spanning their 18-year career, which includes eight previously unreleased tracks, and «1969», an album of collaborations with legendary Japanese singer Saori Yuki. «1969» has been certified platinum in Japan, and marked the first time a Japanese artist hit the American Bill- board charts since Kyu Sakamoto’s «Sukiyaki» in 1963.The band has collaborated and performed with numerous artists, including Jimmy Scott, Carol Channing, Jane Powell, Rufus Wain- wright, Martha Wainwright, Henri Salvador, Chavela Vargas, New York performer Joey Arias, puppeteer Basil Twist, Georges Moustaki, Michael Feinstein, filmmaker Gus Van Sant, Courtney Taylor Taylor of The Dandy Warhols, clarinetist and conductor Norman Leyden, Japanese legend Hiroshi Wada, Italian actress and songwriter Alba Clemente, DJ Johnny Dynell and Chi Chi

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Valenti, Faith Prince, Mamie Van Doren, the original cast of Sesame Street, the Bonita Vista High School Marching Band of Chula Vista, California and the Pacific Youth Choir of Portland, Oregon. Singer Storm Large began performing with Pink Martini in March 2011, when China Forbes took a leave of absence to undergo surgery on her vocal cords. Forbes made full recovery and now both she and Large continue performing with Pink Martini.Pink Martini has an illustrious roster of regular guest artists: NPR White House correspondent Ari Shapiro, Cantor Ida Rae Cahana (who was cantor at the Central Synagogue in NYC for five years), koto player Masumi Timson, harpist Maureen Love, and Kim Hastreiter (the publish/editor-in-chief of Paper Magazine). Most recently, the four great-grandchildren of Maria and Georg von Trapp appeared with Pink Martini and are currently working on a joint album project with the band.In January 2012 bandleader Thomas Lauderdale began work on Pink Martini’s seventh studio album when he recorded the Charlie Chaplin song «Smile» with the legendary Phyllis Diller. The new album, titled «Get Happy», was released September 24th, 2013 and features singers China Forbes and Storm Large along with special guests Rufus Wainwright, The von Trapps & Ari Shapiro.

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IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII POPS Prochain concert du cycle «Pops»Nächstes Konzert in der Reihe «Pops» Next concert in the series «Pops»

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