Luciana Souza at Herbst Theatre, November 30, 2018

San Francisco Performances presents Luciana Souza, with Scott Colley and Chico Pinheiro
Herbst Theatre
Veterans' Building, San Francisco War Memorial Performing Arts Center, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94102-4522 USA
7:30 PM, Friday, November 30, 2018

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[7:34 PM announcements from SBD, lights down, announcements from Melanie Smith, band out, yack from Luciana: theme of the night: “Silence and Uncertainty”]

1. [7:39 PM] The Paris Sky (Leonard Cohen)
2. [7:43 PM] Nightingale (Leonard Cohen)
3. [7:49 PM] ? (unidentified song in Portuguese, lyric guess: “Bahia samba dondon negra”)
4. [7:55 PM] Alms (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
5. [8:01 PM] Charles Simic: Stone
6. [8:01 PM] Lilia (Milton Nascimento)
7. [8:10 PM] ? (unidentified song in Portuguese, lyric guess: “Feco”)
8. [8:18 PM] Vem Morena (Luiz Gonzaga)
9. [8:25 PM] Bertolt Brecht: “In the dark times, Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.”
10. [8:25 PM] These Things (Luciana Souza)
11. [8:31 PM] We Grow Accustomed to the Dark (Emily Dickinson)
12. [8:37 PM] the Book (Leonard Cohen)
13. [8:45 PM] ? (unidentified original instrumental by CP)
14. [8:52 PM] Elizabeth Bishop: One Art
15. [8:53 PM] Remember (Christina Rossetti)
16. [8:56 PM] Águas de Março (The Waters of March) (Antônio Carlos Jobim)
17. [9:03 PM] Forró Brasil (Hermeto Pascoal)
    [set ends 9:09 PM, all off for a minute]
    
    Encore
18. [9:10 PM] Garota de Ipanema (Vinicius de Moraes)
    [show ends 9:17 PM]

• Scott Colley: contrabass;
• Chico Pinheiro: guitar;
• Luciana Souza: snare drum, cymbals, triangle, percussion, vox.

Wow! It's rare to see a show – musical or not – where poetry is a major focus, and to me, that's one thing that really draws me to Luciana Souza. I might not be all that impressed with every one of the poems she picks, but I appreciate the fact that she hears something in the words, and then tries to come of with something complementary in musical delivery. That's the sort of creative artistry that gets me coming back to see her year after year!

Program Notes or program notes

Jeff Kaliss posted a nice promo article for this show at SFCV.

Big thanks to Ting for the photo gallery!

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