The piece toured for several years across various countries before the Museum of Fine Arts Houston (MFAH) purchased the work, adding it to its permanent collection.
We're doing a two-piece tour, I'm on stage with an acoustic guitar most of the time, I play on the keyboard and David Duffy is playing fiddle and mandolin occasionally and drums and electric guitar.
Choreographed by Khan, it's performed by the five men and three women who will take the piece on tour.
And when he took the piece on tour the next year, it was not to churches but to some of the leading opera houses and concert halls of Europe.
The Kronos Quartet introduced her evocative "Harp and Altar" during a Prospect Park concert in July and continues to play the piece on tour.
Laurie Anderson's "Homeland," a concept album about the tenuous state of contemporary America songs deal with torture (or, if you'd prefer, enhanced interrogation), health care, religion, and the recent and ongoing economic collapse has been rumored for a long time, and Anderson has played sections of the piece on tour for more than two years.
But aside from EMI Music Group, which now gets a piece of tour revenue from both British pop singer Robbie Williams and Korn, the once-hot rock group, the notion hasn't received much traction.
Alexander revived The Importance in a small theatre in Notting Hill, outside the West End, in 1901; in the same year he presented the piece on tour, playing Jack Worthing with a cast including the young Lilian Braithwaite as Cecily.
The Hard Rock historian told us the story behind his favorite piece on tour -- a "ridiculous" denim jacket worn by John Lennon -- and mused on why "the ghoulish element" can't help but draw crowds.
