Herb Alpert: Music for Your Eyes
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Tom Neff's Herb Alpert: Music for Your Eyes


Tom Neff Productions
200 42nd Avenue North
Nashville, TN 37209

MEDIA ALERT

April 18, 2002

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Short Documentary Film of Paintings and Sculpture
by Jazz Great Herb Alpert to be Shown at the Screening Room, May 1-8


New York, NY -- Herb Alpert: Music for Your Eyes, a 35mm, 28-minute documentary, written and directed by Academy Award nominee Tom Neff, will be shown publicly for the first time on May 1-8, 2002 at the Screening Room cinema and restaurant at 54 Varick Street (on the corner of Canal). Call the theatre for show times: (212) 334-2100.

The film, which will premiere by invitation only at the Walter Reade Theatre at Lincoln Center in April, features Herb Alpert, the legendary musician and record producer, at work in his studios painting and sculpting. The soundtrack of the film is co-composed and performed by Alpert.

The film is based on the retrospective exhibition, Herb Alpert: Music for Your Eyes, organized by Executive Director Lois Riggins-Ezzell, Tennessee State Museum in Nashville. The exhibition, on view at the Museum from August 3 to September 30, 2001, featured more than 75 paintings and 40 sculptures created between 1978 and 2001.

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THE FUTURE: West Coast premiere at the Directors Guild (Fall 2002) in Hollywood, and film festivals.

MUSIC

    Background MIDI: "Lonely Bull," by Herb Alpert.    (Need to use the EXPLORER browser.)

Herb Alpert in his Studio

According to art critic Peter Frank, "Having painted for more than three decades, and having exhibited his paintings for more than half that time, Herb Alpert must be regarded as an important paticipant in the ongoing discourse of contemporary art."

The photog is Gerry Wersh. All Rights Reserved by Herb Alpert.
Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN

The film is based on the retrospective exhibition, Herb Alpert: Music for Your Eyes, organized by Executive Director Lois Riggins-Ezzell, Tennessee State Museum in Nashville. The exhibition, on view at the Museum from August 3 to September 30, 2001, featured more than 75 paintings and 40 sculptures created between 1978 and 2001.
Public Performances of "Herb Alpert: Music for Your Eyes"

Tom Neff's film opens for the public on May 1st at the Screening Room. They have great margaritas at the screening room. How cool!