The Psychedelic Keyboard Summit featuring: Vince Welnick (the Grateful Dead & The Tubes), Tom Constanten & Bob Bralove (the Grateful Dead), and band, will perform with The Great Valley High School Orchestra in Malvern, PA

Concert: The Psychedelic Keyboard Summit, featuring Grateful Dead alumni: Tom Constanten & Bob Bralove (the Grateful Dead), Vince Welnick (the Grateful Dead & The Tubes), WITH The Great Valley High School Orchestra, performing Concerto Psychedelico Date: Friday, October 1, 2004 Time: 8:00 PM Venue: Great Valley Performing Arts Center at Great Valley High School 225 North Phoenixville Pike, Malvern, PA Info & Directions: www.gvcef.org Tickets: $20 Reserved, $15 General Admission, $10 Students/Seniors Ages: All Ages Phone: (610) 889-2127

September 30, 2004 - Students in the orchestra at Great Valley High School, in Malvern, PA, are about to have a once in a lifetime experience. On October 1, the students will get the opportunity to perform onstage with alumni from The Grateful Dead. To make matters even more exciting, the orchestra, led by Dick Sutcliffe and Doug Wilford, will be premiering an entire concerto written by Grateful Dead alumni Bob Bralove, Tom Constanten and Vince Welnick.

In a return engagement to Great Valley Performing Arts Center, Bralove, Constanten and Welnick and band The Psychedelic Keyboard Summit, will perform new and vintage material for the first half of the evening. Continuing the tradition of the Grateful Dead music and light shows, they will also utilize an additional visual component, integrating cutting edge video projection technology developed by Bob Bralove, something he calls Digital Fingerpainting. This technology allows images to be triggered by the keyboard players while each note of the music is being played, adding a full multimedia dimension to the work.

For the second half of the evening, The Great Valley High School Orchestra will perform with Bralove, Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Constanten and Welnick, and a band of heavy weight musicians drummer Lukas Ligetti and bass player Adam Lane.

ABOUT THE CONCERTO
The concerto consists of seven movements, all designed to create a musical conversation between the orchestra and the soloists. Some movements allow for full orchestral improvisation, while others follow a more traditional path. The five members of The Psychedelic Keyboard Summit will be weaving their improvisational material in and out of the orchestral textures. Images matched to the emotional content of each movement, and triggered by the fingers of the keyboard trio will be projected in large screen video on either side of the stage, creating an environment Bralove refers to as live movies. Similar to the compositional aspects of the concerto, visual themes are explored through state of the art techniques, creating a flow of images from pre-impressionist paintings, through to the 3D graphics of today.

When asked how this project came about, Bralove explains, I had the experience of playing there [Great Valley] last year and I was overwhelmed by the kids energy and enthusiasm for our performances. So I looked for a way to maximize the integration of their energy into our performance, and I came up with the idea of writing music for them to play with us. Luckily Great Valley has a music program that is vital and responsive. They jumped on the bandwagon and gave us the go ahead to start writing.
The combination of formal training (students of Stockhausen, Berio, and Petersen) and improvisation (with the Grateful Dead, Dose Hermanos and Stevie Wonder), has given Tom Constanten and Bob Bralove a unique position to deliver this range of compositional techniques with authority and clarity, while at the same time staying focused on a coherent musical communication. A partnership with the Great Valley music department, is maximizing the dynamic relationships between the trio and the orchestra.

ABOUT THE PSYCHEDELIC KEYBOARD SUMMIT
Since the end of the Grateful Dead, alumni of the band have been musically crossing paths in new and exciting ways. The Psychedelic Keyboard Summit unites the experimental keyboardists of the early 60s band (Tom Constanten), the keyboard master of the 90s (Vince Welnick), and the Drums and Space innovator of the last eight years of the band (Bob Bralove).

Bralove and Constanten, having performed together for the last seven years as Dose Hermanos, have established a musical communication that is both direct and innovative. Dose Hermanos is a psychedelic keyboard duo dedicated to advancing total improvisation, in both the visual and auditory realms, to the point where composition equals performance. Both members having backgrounds in classical music, jazz, avant-garde, and rock and roll, they are equally at home in the style of Bartok or Stravinsky, as the Blues or gamelan. Albums released by Dose Hermanos include Sonic Roar Shock, Live From California, Search For Intelligent Life and the DVD Shadow Of The Invisible Man. A new album, Bright Shadows, an enhanced CD, has just been released.

Welnick and Bralove have solidified a musical vision through their partnerships in songwriting; which originated during their shared time in the Grateful Dead, flourished in their work with the band Second Sight and continues today.

Bob Bralove
Bob Bralove was the MIDI wizard, producer (Infrared Roses, Built to Last), and co-writer (Picasso Moon, Way to Go Home, Easy Answers, Infrared Roses), with the Grateful Dead for the last eight years of the long, strange trip. Bralove, who has a Masters Degree in composition, studied with Pulitzer Prize winning composer, Wayne Peterson, focusing on composing orchestral and chamber works. He perfected his skills in the digital manipulation of sound, as the sound designer and computer music director for Stevie Wonder (Woman in Red, In Square Circle). After an eight-year tenure with Stevie, he began working with the Grateful Dead. His first project was to help score the CBS remake of the television series The Twilight Zone. In addition to his songwriting, producing and MIDI wizard activities for the band, Bralove is especially well known for his undeniable creative sound, performing and designing with the Grateful Dead, the mind-bending, avant-garde Drums and Space segments of their live shows.

Currently, Bralove is slated for a June 2006 installation and exhibition of music, video and prints inspired by his work with Constanten, at the Morris Graves Museum of Art, in Humbolt, CA. He will be previewing some of his new images at the performance at Great Valley Performing Arts Center.

Tom Constanten
In addition to being a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Tom Constanten was a composition student of Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luciano Berio, and Artist in Residence at Harvard University. Constanten played keyboards for the Grateful Dead at the end of the 1960s, contributing his magic to the classic albums Anthem of the Sun, Aoxomoxoa and Live/Dead. Tom has composed works for theatre and ballet, and his commissions have been performed by the NY City Ballet and the San Francisco Ballet. He has released numerous solo albums of both classical and contemporary music, including 88 Keys to Tomorrow, Sonatas by Beethoven, Schubert and Haydyn, Nightfall of Diamonds and Embryonic Journey with Jorma Kaukonen. Constanten is also the author of the book Between Rock and Hard Places: A Musical Autobiodyssey.

Vince Welnick
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Vince Welnick, started young. At age 17, the keyboardist formed a band called The Beans. This soon led to the Tubes, with Fee Waybill. Becoming famous for their rowdy performances, The Tubes, Welnick states, offended everybody, including ourselves. A&M signed the band and The Tubes had hits such as White Punks on Dope. More albums followed with Capital Records, including hits such as Talk to Ya Later and Shes a Beauty, and Welnick performed with The Tubes for 17 years. Then Todd Rundgren, who produced The Tubes 1979 album, Remote Control, enlisted Welnick on his own albums and tours.

Vince was called to audition for the band in 1990, after the death of Grateful Dead keyboardist, Brent Mydland. His keyboard skills and vocal abilities to sing high harmonies landed him the job and he spent 1990 1995 with the Grateful Dead. Songs that Welnick co-wrote with Robert Hunter were Long Way To Go Home and Samba In the Rain. Jerry insisted that Vince sing those songs and that became his first shot as a lead singer.

After Jerry Garcia died in 1995, Welnick formed the Missing Man Formation, with Steve Kimock (guitar), Prairie Prince (percussion), Bobby Strickland (bass clarinet, saxophone, vocals) and Bobby Vega (bass). They released a self-titled album in 1998. Welnick has also recorded with Dick Dale, Merl Saunders, Steve Kimock, The Persuasions and many others. He has toured with the Mickey Hart Band, plays shows with jam band, Jack Straw, and in addition to performing with Constanten and Bralove, continues to tour both solo and with his own band.

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After conferring with the Great Valley High School Orchestra directors Dick Sutcliffe and Doug Wilford, Bralove and Constanten have written a concerto which is designed to maximize the dynamic relationships between the Psychedelic Keyboard Summit and the Great Valley orchestra. The high school orchestra is currently learning the piece as a part of their regular curriculum with the conductor. Bralove and Constanten will arrive ahead of time, prior to the performance and be a part of the students rehearsals. Because of Constanten and Braloves unique and extensive backgrounds of study in multiple disciplines, the students have the opportunity to learn skills of classical training as well as high level improvisation.
Bralove, Constanten and Welnick, will also be performing as a trio, bringing their musical gifts to students from elementary school to high school ages, as they perform 3 days of concerts throughout the Great Valley School District, sponsored by The Great Valley Community Education Foundation. The foundation, founded and led by Dr. David B. Morgan III, is a non-profit community arts presenting organization, now in its 21st year.

For further information please contact S.C. Entertainment (212) 929-0630,
Great Valley Community Education Foundation (610) 889-2125, ext. 2128
www.scentertainmentonline.com or www.gvcef.org

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