Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!AXLER%upenn-1100.csnet (Dont From: ll tell you later.)@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA> Newsgroups: net.music Subject: PCO, Laurie Anderson Message-ID: <7168@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 04:41:15 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.7168 Posted: Thu Jan 10 04:41:15 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 06:56:18 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 12 Paul: The conductor of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra is Simon Jeffes. They were in NYC for the "Next Wave" Festival, a rather impressive and lengthy set of performances in various media, including several Philip Glass operas, some video pieces, and so on. I suspect that PCO's success there will lead them to put on a US tour within the year, but one can't tell -- it's incredibly costly for UK/European groups to come over, esp. when they're large ensembles. By the way, Laurie Anderson did come to DC on her last tour -- as I recall, she appeared at the DAR hall (the one where they wouldn't let Mahalia Jackson sing in the fifties...). Dave Axler