At long last, this week I headed down to Poisson Rouge—the hip club at the former site of the Village Gate that opened last summer—yes, the spot that has been covered to death in the media, meaning the possibility exists that I am just way too un-cool to even set foot inside the place. Or, to paraphrase Groucho Marx, should I be allowed to visit any club that would have me as a member?
So it took a while, but in the performance that finally brought me to this place turned out to be FLECTION, produced and conducted by Paul Haas and his SymphoNYC ensemble —a chamber orchestra—joined by live electronica artist Paul Fowler. The piece uses Barber’s Adagio for Strings as a departure point and brings in music by Judd Greenstein, Haas, and Fowler at key “points of inflection,” with added instruments like oboe, flute, clarinet, bassoon, trombone, and trumpet (and of course live electronica). The performance was billed as a “continuous visual and sonic experience” and promised “lighting and other visual and spatial elements.” All-capital-letters are apparently part of the Sympho marketing philosophy: you may remember one of the ensemble’s earlier New York concerts, REWIND at the Angel Orensanz Center in 2006, or TRACES in March 2008. read more
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