New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Girlie Action Media & Marketing) After an acclaimed staging at�
Los Angeles� Hotel Caf�earlier this year,�
Ben�Lear�performs his album�
Lillian�at�
New York City�s Le Poisson Rouge�(where he played a sold-out show last year) on October 25th.� The performance is a 60-minute staged concert complete with a 15-piece band and orchestra, gospel choir, projected animation, costumes, and plastic bottle light-sculptures.� The son of TV legend, writer/producer�
Norman�Lear(
All in the Family,The�Jeffersons,�Sanford and Son), Ben shares his father�s interest in political activism.��
Lillian�is a tale of love and loss, thematically tied to the issue of plastic pollution in our oceans.
Ben Lear to Perform�Lillian�in NYC with Light�Sculptures,
Orchestra, Gospel Choir,�Projected Animation and More!�Click�HERE�to Watch the Show�s Trailer.
Come Get Lost at Le Poisson Rouge on October 25th�at 8pm
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"edgy, experimental folk-opera blending acoustic guitar songs with percussive
chamber and orchestral music��- Los Angeles Times
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The story is of a young man kept awake by the fear that he�s watching his lover, who sleeps soundly in bed, drift away from him, becoming one of the many things he�s lost in his life.� He determines that all the things we lose in our lives end up in an island of trash floating in the Pacific Ocean.� And, in a desperate attempt to reclaim these things, he sets off on a scuba-diving journey to that island.� Along the way he meets strange sea creatures, who trigger discoveries within his mind�s journey to determine how and why he began to lose Lillian.
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Though he began as a songwriter, Ben was encouraged by his private instructor,�Broadway�music-director�Joe Church�(The Lion King,�In The Heights),�to learn the fundamentals of orchestral composition and soon became entranced.� In the past year, Ben released his debut album,�Lillian, and has begun working closely with the non-profit world as a young, environmental spokesman. �
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Last November, Ben performed at�Plastic Pollution Coalition�s TEDx�event in Santa Monica. �He was subsequently invited on a three-week, sailing expedition run by�5gyres�where he sailed from Chile to Easter Island, collecting plastic samples in the previously un-studied South Pacific Gyre. �He has recently performed for the�UN, shot and edited an upcoming 3D music video and premiered his orchestral piece, �Boxer,� which the LA Times declared a �moody tone-poem,� at�MUSE/IQUE�s�inaugural concert in Pasadena, California.
