SPACE IS THE PLACE // THE ARKESTRA AT THELINCOLN CENTER

SPACE IS THE PLACE composed by Sun Ra

Sun Ra Turns 100: Sun Ra Arkestra with Marshall Allen

October 5, 2013

The Allen Room

Sun Ra incorporated elements drawn from black vaudeville, modern dance, Egyptian cosmology, Eastern philosophy, numerology, surrealism, kitsch, and the Bible to serve a corpus that deployed African rhythms, atonal melodies, electronic timbres, raw blues expression, unfailing swing, and one-for-all discipline drawn from the big bands that Ra internalized in his youth. Sun Ra lives on in the current edition of the Sun Ra Arkestra, led by original member, alto saxophonist-woodwindist Marshall Allen.

Featuring Artist Michael Arthur whose live drawings are projected in real- time during the performance.