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New Leviathan
Mother's Day Picnic
FREE!  Bring a chair and a collation of your own selection
Sunday
May 11
Cabrini Park in the French Quarter
Jazz Fest 2004
The long-awaited CD remix of
From New Orleans to Constantinople on the S S Leviathan,
33 years in the making, is now available.  Get it at Jazz Fest!
The New Leviathan
Oriental Fox-Trot
Orchestra
Hear and read about us on NPR .
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"The most unbelievable act in the country."
                               --- David A. Greenberg
The Canal Street Streetcar is back
and our Hero, Jack Stewart made it happen. Click here to read his story of the 1964 last ride from New Orleans Magazine. Hear Jack on NPR  here.


Hear George Schmidt talk with
Bob Edwards on
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Questions?  Comments?
Shaggy dog stories?
E-mail us by clicking this camel from Audubon Zoo's new carousel.
Our friend Bruce Raeburn's interesting pictorial essay on music on riverboats can be seen here.

The New Leviathan plays the works of many Louisiana composers with French roots.  Here are the stories of three of them, Alphonse Verges, Paul Sarebresole and Laurent Dubuclet (Larry Buck.)
                                                    
Our Jazz Fest and Mother's Day sets featured a theremin solo in "Home In Pasadena" played by music machine maven Bobby Skinner, far left in the picture above.  Learn all about the theremin here.  Learn more about Bobby Skinner from GambitWeekly here.
Want to learn how  to foxtrot?  Look  here.
This book, The New Leviathan, or, Man, Society, Civilization and Barbarism by Robin George Collingwood is not about one of our rehearsals.
In 1999, the New Leviathan was voted one of the top 3 ragtime/revival orchestras in the world by the readers of The Mississippi Rag.
Our archivist and flautist, Jack Stewart, is a jazz historian.   Read his article about the Cuban influences on New Orleans music.
George Schmidt, our lead vocalist and banjo player and a founding member of the orchestra, is a renowned artist.  Look at his web site.  See what Offbeat said about him here. How 'bout his senior class picture here?
Somewhere in this artist's beautiful site you can find us playing "Lazy River."
Froggy's page of photographs of New Orleans musicians includes an old picture of the New Leviathan.  Look at it.
Cellist Jack Craft and his brother, violinist Sam Craft, are graduates of the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts.  Learn more about NOCCA.    Offbeat says "Sam Craft is the Phil Selway of the violin."  We think that's a compliment.  Jack and Sam have a contemporary music ensemble (a garage band without a garage) that's becoming all the rage.  Read about Glasgow here.
New Leviathan Discography
Our musical director, Greg Merritt, is now also director of music at St. Andrew the Apostle Catholic Church.  See his listing in Loyola University's alumni news.

Want to learn more about Carl Mack, our drummer?   Look here.

Our technical director, Pete Wolbrette, led the American Dreamers who won the 2002 Best of New Orleans award for best chamber music performance.  Look here.

Violinist Dennis Lindwall is a geophysicist.  He has studied gravity anomalies of Hawai'i.  Look here.    
Milan 1990
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Whenever this counter clicks, an angel gets his wings!
Art fails where concept outstrips performance.

 

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