Our final performances brings us back to the Adrienne Arsht Center, where we will be featuring “Symphonic Metamorphosis” by genre-bending German composer Paul Hindemith. We’re also thrilled to perform our reimagining of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, the 1998 GRAMMY award-winning album by the influential and acclaimed artist Lauryn Hill. This program will also feature the world premiere of an orchestral commission from composer Derrick Hodge. Hodge, the recipient of two GRAMMY awards, combines an array of genres ranging from jazz to soul to hip hop, creating a sound entirely his own. Nu Deco will also be joined by soul and R&B artist, Allen Stone, who blends everything from edgy soul-pop and earthy folk-rock to throwback R&B and Parliamnet-inspired funk.
Nu Deco at the Adrienne Arsht Center ft. Allen Stone & Derrick Hodge
Program
- Symphonic Metamorphosis // Paul Hindemith
- The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Reimagined // Hyken/Lebos/Lopez/Matthews
- World Premiere Orchestral Commission // Derrick Hodge
- Special collaboration with Allen Stone
About This Show
Derrick Hodge & Allen Stone
Allen Stone
Allen Stone was raised in the small town of Chewlah, Washington. He grew up on gospel music, spending much of his childhood as a pastor's son watching his parents lead their congregation in song. By the time he was 11, he'd picked up a guitar, wrote his first song and soon began self-recording demo trapes to pass along to classmates. After dropping out of college, he moved to Seattle to kickstart his music career, often driving up and down the west coast in his '87 Buick to play any and all gigs he could
He quickly developed a reputation for powerful live shows, playing up to 200 dates a year. And in the years since, Allen has built a devoted following on the strength of his near-magical ability to channel a weight-of-the-world sensitivity into his songs while still radiating hope and promise. His easy grace in blending everything from edgy soul-pop and earthy folk-rock to throwback R&B and Parliament-inspired funk is reflected in his five full length albums - from his 2010 self-released debut album Last to Speak to 2021's APART, an intimate album recorded in a converted cabin during the pandemic.
Stone has continued to keep a constant touring schedule and has appeared numerous times on national television including performances on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Today Show, and is the mento on this season of American Idol. You can expect to hear new music from Stone later this year and 2023.
For more information, visit allenstone.com
Derrick Hodge
Two-time Grammy Award-winning bassist and Blue Note Recording Artist Derrick Hodge grew up right outside of Philadelphia in Willingboro, N.J. Within his formative years, Hodge pursued multiple styles of music as early as 6 years old ranging from gospel and pop music to jazz and orchestral music, continuing his formal music education at Temple University where he studied Jazz Composition and Performance. While attending Temple, Hodge uniquely became the first jazz major to participate in the Temple University Symphony Orchestra conducted by Luis Biava and New Music Chamber Orchestra.
During this influential time, Hodge began to show his colors as a “Renaissance” musician, with incredible diversity in musical tastes and abilities. Hodge played with such Philly Jazz greats as tenor saxophonist Bootsie Barnes and trumpeter Terrell Stafford, meanwhile reaping considerable session work with some of Philly’s finest modern R&B artists such as Jill Scott, Musiq Soulchild, Floetry, and DJ Jazzy Jeff.
Throughout his early career, Hodge continued to show an adept proficiency and broad ability across numerous musical genres, and platforms. Ranging from orchestrations with Common and Kanye West for Common’s album Be, (which reached Billboard No.1) and production work on Common’s Finding Forever to winning R&B Grammys in 2012 and 2014 with the Robert Glasper Experiment as a founding member of the group. Hodge has always been held with the highest respect of his peers which led to roles such as the Musical Director for Maxwell for nearly a decade, continued work as a producer and writer for numerous albums, including co-producing Justin Kauflin’s album “Coming Home” with Quincy Jones, and several Blue Note projects along side Don Was, all while maintaining his solo projects and touring. Hodge has performed, written and/or recorded with artists such as Maxwell, Kanye West. Herbie Hancock, Q-Tip, Mos Def, Timbaland, Jill Scott, MusiqSoulchild, Gerald Levert, Common, Bilal, Lupe Fiasco, Andre 3000, Sade, Terence Blanchard, Ledisi, Terell Stafford, Donald Byrd, Stefon Harris, Bootsie Barnes, Kirk Franklin, Kenny Lattimore, Donnie McClurkin, and many more.
His writing and arranging accomplishments straddle both the recording and live arenas, from composing original music for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, to arranging for Nas and the National Symphony Orchestra, Common and the Chicago Symphony, Maxwell and the National Symphony, as well as composing the original work “Infinite Reflections” for the Chicago Brass Ensemble, and being a Sundance Composer Fellow. He has also directed and scored other projects from being co-Musical Director for the 2015 Triumph Awards and arranging strings for Mos Def’s 2008 premiere at Carnegie Hall, to writing for films such as Back to School Mom, the 180 Days Documentary Series, Land of Opportunity, The Black Candle, The Army Recruiter and Uneasy Listening. Early film work includes When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts in which he did additional writing and scoring, as well as Who the $%@ Is Jackson Pollock?,and Faubourg Treme: A Story of Black New Orleans. Hodge’s most recent film projects include music consultant credit for the Feb 2020 Universal release “The Photograph”, as well as composer for the American library system documentary “Free For All Lives”, directed by Dawn Logsdon.