Berklee College of Music's T. Allen LeVines, Recent ASCAP Award Recipient, Composes Music for Haiku-Based Narrow Interior Roads.

BOSTON, September 3, 1999 -- Narrow Interior Roads, a dance drama interweaving poetry, music and movement arts of Japan and America, is one of the works to be presented at the annual Boston Conservatory Faculty and Alumni Dance Showcase, an artistic homecoming for some of the Conservatory Dance Division's brightest stars. Titled "Crossings," the showcase features three works involving transformations and juxtapositions of different cultures and art forms. Performances are at 8:00 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, September 17 and 18, 1999, at the Boston Conservatory Theater, 31 Hemenway Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Tickets are $32, $20 for children under 15, and $7 student rush. Call (617) 536-6340.

Set to the haiku-inspired piece "Travel Journal," composed by Berklee College of Music Assistant Professor of Composition T. Allen LeVines, Narrow Interior Roads is an original work choreographed by Boston Conservatory Dance faculty member Emiko Tokunaga. The work is based on eleven haiku by the Japanese poet Basho (1644-1694), one of the four great haiku masters. Narrow Interior Roads will be performed by Boston Conservatory Dance faculty Julie Ince Thompson and Yasuko Tokunaga, sister of the choreographer.

Mr. LeVines' compositions have been performed by numerous ensembles, inclusing ALEA III, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and the Portland, Maine, String Quartet. He has recordings on Arabesque Records and has received numerous awards, including the Charles Ives Scholoarship, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters award, and the Leonard Bernstein Fellowship. He recently received a 1999-2000 ASCAP Award for twentieth century composers.

"Crossings" will also include Boston Conservatory faculty members Tommy Neblett and Diane Arvanites-Noya, also an alumna, performing the Boston premiere of their duet Between Blood & Bone. And, in her only Boston appearance this year, renowned flamenco artist and Boston Conservatory faculty member and alumna Omayra Amaya will dance her trademark high-energy flamenco with Joachim Encinias. Ms. Amaya is one of Boston's best-known flamenco artists and choreographers.

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