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1. www.twylatharp.org › works › catherine-wheelThe Catherine Wheel | Twyla Tharp

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   The Catherine Wheel takes its title from a torture device used in the martyrdom of Saint Catherine of Alexandria. This device has lent its name to a number of familiar things over time - a spinning firework, a crochet pattern, a flower.

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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › The_Catherine_Wheel_(album)The Catherine Wheel (album) - Wikipedia

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   The Catherine Wheel is an album by Scottish-American musician David Byrne, released in 1981 by Sire Records. It contains Byrne's musical score for choreographer Twyla Tharp 's dance project of the same name. [3] [4] The Catherine Wheel premiered September 22, 1981, at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City .

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   Bernie Worrell: Wave From The WOOniverse, a double album, was concocted in fourteen cities, with a bound-to-be viral video of the title track directed by Los Angeles-based dancer, Madeline Riley. The album was produced by former Bernie Worrell Orchestra bandleader Evan Taylor, and is slated for release a day after Bernie’s birthday, (April 19 ...

4. www.totally80s.com › article › bernie-worrellBernie Worrell: A (Talking) Head of His Time | Totally 80s

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   David Byrne, “Big Business” (1981): This is a track from The Catherine Wheel, the score Byrne had been commissioned to write by Twyla Tharp for her latest dance project. The project premiered on Sept. 22, 1981, at the Winter Garden Theater in New York City, but it would take the better part of three more months before Byrne’s score for ...

5. davidbyrne.com › explore › the-catherine-wheelDavid Byrne | The Catherine Wheel | About

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   Sep 20, 1981 · A Catherine Wheel is both a kind of fireworks display that is spun by hand and an instrument of torture, and the beginning of the piece does seem to depict a family whose members torture each other. The first image is of a pineapple, but the pineapple is also the same shape as one of the first atomic bombs. Fireworks, indeed!

6. www.twylatharp.org › works › catherine-wheel-iiiThe Catherine Wheel III | Twyla Tharp

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   The Catherine Wheel III is a tour-friendly redaction of the original Broadway production. The set is more compact and the cast slightly smaller. Tharp condensed the original seventeen sections to fourteen and reduced the plot to its essential elements.

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   When did David Byrne release the Catherine Wheel?

   • The Catherine Wheel is an album by Scottish-American musician David Byrne, released in 1981 by Sire Records. It contains Byrne's musical score for choreographer Twyla Tharp 's dance project of the same name. The Catherine Wheel premiered September 22, 1981, at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City .

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   What is a Catherine Wheel?

   • A Catherine Wheel is both a kind of fireworks display that is spun by hand and an instrument of torture, and the beginning of the piece does seem to depict a family whose members torture each other. The first image is of a pineapple, but the pineapple is also the same shape as one of the first atomic bombs. Fireworks, indeed!

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   Will 'the Catherine Wheel' become a model for modern dance?

   • ''The Catherine Wheel'' is a first, and one suspects it will not be the last of its kind. It could become the model for a new and much more fruitful interplay between the worlds of popular music and modern dance. David Byrne's 1981 theatrical score for Twyla Tharp's Broadway production of the same name.

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   Who was Bernie Worrell?

   • Composer and keyboardist Bernie Worrell died Friday at the age of 72 following a battle with late-stage lung cancer. Worrell was a classically trained musician who bridged musical styles playing with everyone from Keith Richards, the house band of David Letterman's "Late Show" to the O'Jays and Mos Def. NPR's Eric Deggans has this appreciation.

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8. www.rhino.com › article › happy-anniversary-davidHappy Anniversary: David Byrne, The Catherine Wheel | Rhino

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   In addition, several of the musicians on The Catherine Wheel were not exactly unknowns: Adrian Belew and Bernie Worrell both turn up, Byrne’s fellow Head, Jerry Harrison, is in the mix as well, and Ms. Tharp plays the water pot on “Cloud Chamber.” (We said they weren’t exactly unknowns, not that they were all noted musicians.)