Robert Black at Jewish Museum – November 5

We continue our season at the Jewish Museum with an especially exciting and uncommon program of music by Soviet composers corresponding to the exhibit The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Film peformed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars bassist, Robert Black along with the Hartt Bass Band, Ashley Bathgate (cello) and Katie Lansdale (violin)

Composers who were isolated behind the Iron Curtain had to develop their own unique ways of pushing musical boundaries. Robert Black explores this musical era with a program of chamber music by experimental Soviet composers Galina Ustvolskaya, Arthur Lourie, Yuri Sergeyevich Kasparov, Alfred Schnittke, Rifat Komachkov, and Sofia Gubaidulaina. A highlight of the program is a rare performance of Ustvolskaya’s relentless Composition No. 2 for piano, eight double basses, and one giant cube of wood.

The Bang on a Can concerts at the Jewish Museum are a wonderful and intimate salon-like atmosphere and we hope to see you there!