Miller Pop-Up: JACK Quartet
This is what they mean by atonal, right?
Tonight, Miller Theatre digs deep and offers us the first of its brand new series of Popup Concerts. In exchange for free beer, intimate musical times, and communitarian bonding, all we must do is sit through an hour of atonal music. Punters will be encouraged to grab a bevvie and join the instrumentalists on stage. Such egalitarianism is, to be sure, a little offensive, but we cannot complain since the price is free.
Bwog spoke to Ari Streisfield, violinist with the JACK Quartet, about how modern music is weird but also good. Full interview after the jump.
Musical Experiments: Popup Concert. Tuesday, February 7th, 5.30pm, Miller Theatre. Free.
Bwog: Contemporary classical music often repels people. You suddenly hear two bars of that and you say, I don’t know this, I don’t understand. How do you listen to something like the stuff you’re playing on Tuesday?
Ari: We’ve played that piece for audiences that have never heard anything like this before, all over the country, and they usually respond to it immediately, just because of the physicality of it…if you let your mind go and all expectations gone, just allow yourself open to a new experience, it definitely opens new doors in your mind of what’s possible. It does make sense, the way [composers] weave the material together, things come back, memory is used….a lot of [the great Western composers] talk about the idea of memory, or it’s apparent in their music.
Tags: art, interview, JACK quartet, miller theatre, that awkward guy who shouts bravissimo really loudly, the emancipation of the dissonance
7 February 2012 @ 1:32 PM · 2 comments
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