Ruth Leon recommends… Light Bending the World – Montage Music Society
Ruth Leon recommendsLight Bending the World – Montage Music Society
On Thursday there is an unusual concert coming live from a church in Sag Harbour, New York. It is produced by the Montage Music Society, which is dedicated to music inspired by visual art. In this case, composer Niles Luther’s Light Bending the World was inspired by a painting by April Gornik, fusing Gornik’s reimagined observable reality with the idioms of contemporary music. No, I’m not quite sure what that means either, but I can personally attest to the quality of the musicians performing this concert and I’m going to take it on trust and watch with pleasure.
The founder and leading light of the Montage Music Society is the estimable American pianist Debra Ayers, well known and respected for her tireless endeavours in playing and presenting contemporary music. She collaborates with musicians throughout the United States and can be heard on a number of critically-acclaimed recordings.
She will be joined on this concert by Laurie Carney, one of the founders of the American String Quartet and its longtime Second Violinist. Apart from the Quartet, she has performed trios with cellist William Grubb, and pianist Anton Nel; duos with violist Michael Tree; and as an ensemble partner to such artists as Isaac Stern, Pinchas Zukerman, Cho-Liang Lin, Joshua Bell, Yefim Bronfman, and Misha Dichter, amongst others.
Performing his own work on this concert is the composer/cellist Niles Luther, a New York based cellist and composer who endeavours to bridge the gap between art forms by borrowing from the classical tradition and lending its sustained excellence to the artistic and musical idioms of the contemporary era.
This concert will be a treat.
October 26 at 7pm EST and available for 72 hours thereafter.
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