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...Activities kicked off Friday afternoon with a panel held in the ARCO Forum on the responsibilities of black artists as role models. Featured guests included "Kool" DJ Red Alert, stage and screen actor Obba Babatunde, newly appointed Quincy Jones Professor of Music Ingrid Monson and Stacey Spikes, CEO of Urbanworld Films, the first all-black production company...
Because of its complexity and rarity, Revelation was the big attraction. Partch's own libretto alternates between two analogous fleshly rites: the orgiastic reception by female fans accorded to Dion (Obba Babatunde), a Presley symbol, and the lustful revels of the mythic Bacchae in praise of their priapic god, Dionysus. Each principal singer takes two roles. Mom (Suzanne Costallos) falls under the Pelvis' spell, just as her ancient Greek counterpart, Agave, is seduced by Dionysus. When Sonny (Christopher Durham) attempts to intervene, he is, in his alter ego of Pentheus, torn apart by the horde of crazed women...
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