Its grace and charm - and its small, but quietly revolutionary steps forward in harmony and structure - were a welcome tonic between two works that did not aim for either quality.įor “Imagination Dead Imagine,” Quartet Nouveau appeared in casual clothes to don earpieces and tap a laptop’s spacebar to launch our journey into Beckett’s meditation on death and nothingness, things that only imagination can conceive. In the end, Beethoven’s relation to the bar mitzvah or to the Beckett work which received its world premiere after intermission was irrelevant. 3 string quartet - played with scrupulous intensity by Quartet Nouveau: violinists MacAdam-Somer and Missy Lukin violist Annabelle Terbetski, and cellist Elizabeth Brown - immediately followed “Labor Day 1967” as if it were organically linked in some way. Cumulatively, it evoked the power of text, of words, to move us even when we don’t know for sure what they mean.īeethoven’s Op. Scott Robinson seemed to will the boy on the record to life before us as the turntable gave up his raw tone, unpolished Hebrew and wavering rhythm. Solo violinist Batya MacAdam-Somer, singer William Tiep and percussionist N. One of his preparatory lessons (he calls the piece “Labor Day 1967) was committed to a vinyl 78-rpm disk, and when Roth found it on the sad occasion of cleaning out his parents’ home, its scratchy surface conjured a world of memories. But long before all that, he faced a quintessentially Jewish personal challenge: reading from the Torah at his bar mitzvah. Roth has created film scores, music for the theater, chamber music, Broadway shows. Sandberg is attached to direct the latest installment of the Annabelle series, Annabelle 2 (2017). Let’s start at the beginning, difficult as that may be with a concert that ended with the contradictory but emphatic assertion that “there is no trace anywhere of life.” Movie release dates/review for Annabelle 2 2017, Horror, Thriller, Mystery movie directed by David F.

The program’s title, “Imagination Dead Imagine,” comes from a text by the Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, whose raptor-like visage looked out of the program book in fierce challenge: Are you alive, it asked? Why do you think so? What is inside, it asked, the “ring of bone” that you carry above your neck?

On Wednesday evening, JFest, as it’s also called, reached its midpoint with a program, in San Diego Rep’s Lyceum Space, containing two world premieres by composer Michael Roth, bridged by an early-period Beethoven quartet.

You’d make a safe bet, however, to wager that San Diego’s Lipinsky Family Jewish Arts Festival has few equals in the range and depth of the events it is offering this year between May 21 and July 9. Across the United States, Jewish community centers host library events, present lectures and nourish performing arts groups.

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