Charles Curtis, Abigail Levine, Dancers, and Wind Ensemble
Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
February 21, 2020
General admission
Personnel:
Charles Curtis, cello
Abigail Levine, dancer, choreographer
Amanda Brown, design
Rob Besserer, Elena Demyanenko, Kentoria Earle, Ayano Elson, Maho Ogawa, Kristopher K.Q. Pourzal, dancers
Michael Matsuno, Teresa Diaz de Cossio, flutes
Nicolee Kuester, French horn
Rachel Allen, Alexandria Smith, trumpets
Berk Schneider, Mike Lormand, trombones
On Friday night at Issue Project Room, the eminent cellist Charles Curtis presented an intense and beautiful evening of recent works by Alvin Lucier, in the presence of the composer and a capacity crowd. Glacier, for unaccompanied cello, found Curtis obscured from view, playing long tones that calved into a plethora of singing and groaning harmonics. In Orpheus Variations, for cello with seven wind instruments and seven dancers, Lucier transformed a sonority recalled from a Stravinsky ballet into an elegant ritual in sound and motion, the latter choreographed by Abigail Levine.
I'll have a more complete review on National Sawdust Log in the week ahead. The program repeats on Saturday night, but appears to be sold out in advance… definitely check in before you head out.
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