STEVE HACKMAN CONDUCTS HIS Stravinsky X Kendrick Lamar

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STEVE HACKMAN conducts Is it wickedness or weakness? Will it be salvation or damnation? Who bears the curse: the puppet or the puppet master? Steve Hackman’s IGOR DAMN STRAVINSKY ponders these mysteries. A daring fusion of two masterpieces, the work combines Stravinsky’s Petrouchka with Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Prize-winning album DAMN. These two works share striking similarities: first, they each offer a challenging commentary on the human experience through a ‘show-within-a-show’ device (in Petrouchka a puppet show takes place within the main action on stage; in DAMN, an alternate world is set into motion by a gunshot); second, the main characters, Petrouchka and Kung-Fu Kenny, waver between being joyfully accepted and sadly misanthropic,