Name: Friday Music Series: Peter Yates
Start: 2025-09-26T12:30:00-04:00
Location: Devine Studio Theatre | Davis Performing Arts Center

Friday Music Series: Peter Yates

Georgetown University Dept. of Performing Arts

Enjoy this week's Friday Music Series artist, Peter Yates

Devine Studio Theatre | Davis Performing Arts Center

RADIO RODIA, by Peter Yates,is a 75-minute puppet opera about two celebrated Southern California folk monuments:Simon Rodia’s Watts Towers (99-foot towers of beautiful junk); and Tressa Prisbrey’s Bottle Village (houses of glass, glowing in the sun).Yates’s obsessive solo performance uses satire, poetry, masks, puppets, sets and music to resurrect the two visionary folk artists. The Eiffel Tower … Rodin’s Balzac… the Golden Gate Bridge — yesterday’s eyesores become today’s monuments. Radio Rodia illuminates and celebrates that mysterious process.In venues ranging from Lincoln Center to the art clubs of Salzburg and the botanical gardens of Los Angeles, Peter Yates has produced over a thousand events as composer, guitarist, writer and multimedia artist.His interest in things not done has led to a puppet opera about the Watts Towers, a DVD ghost-town opera, and a graphic-novel oratorio. His writing includes plays, librettos, satire, philosophy and instruction manuals on musical interpretation and prepared guitar.Yates’ work has been featured on Italian National Radio (RAI), microfest, Reference Recordings, Innova, Centaur, Bridge and TR Records. Further forms of it can be found at peterfyates/youtube and <a href="http://calguitar.com/" title="http://calguitar.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">calguitar.com</a>.His teaching includes many years at UCLA and Cal Poly Pomona (where he began as a lecturer sleeping in the parking lot in his van, and retired as Department Chair).

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