Number Our Days
Based on Jamie Livingston’s “Photo Of the Day”
How can we hold onto each other with joy, even in the face of inevitable loss?
Each day for 18 years, Jamie Livingston documented his life by taking a single Polaroid—until his death at age 41. Then his “Photo of the Day” went online, creating an immediate global sensation years before Instagram launched. With music for chorus, orchestra, and soloists by Grammy nominee Luna Pearl Woolf (Fire & Flood) and a non-fiction libretto by acclaimed filmmaker David Van Taylor (Good Ol’ Charles Schulz), this multi-media oratorio explores our era’s strange alchemy of technology, memory, and community.
Perelman Center for the Performing Arts (2024)
Music by Luna Pearl Woolf
Concept and Libretto by David Van Taylor
Based on Jamie Livingston’s “Photo Of the Day”
Conducted by Kamna Gupta
Directed by Ty Defoe
Co-Produced with Trinity Church Wall Street
Claire Karoff – Scenic Design
Lux Haac – Costume Design
Brian Tovar – Lighting Design
Germán Martínez – Sound Design
Katherine Freer – Multi-Media Design
Linda Schaffer and Svenja Soldovieri – Creative Consultants to the Oratorio
Hugh Crawford – Curatorial Consultant to the Oratorio
Betsy Ayer – Production Stage Manager
Sam Benson – Stage Manager
Claire Soleil Gardner – Assistant Director
Ben Bauer – Associate Scenic Designer
Alex Fetchko – Associate Lighting Designer
Lindsey Eifert – Associate Costume Designer
Megumi Katayama – Assistant Sound Designer
Stephanie Beattie – Assistant Projections Designer
Featuring: Featuring John Holiday, NOVUS NY orchestra, and over 100 voices from Trinity Church Wall Street.
