Ecstatic Music Series: Seth Parker Woods / Difficult Grace (on-demand until 6/1/2021)
$15
Fredrick Gifford — Difficult Grace
Monty Adkins — Winter Tendrils
Nathalie Joachim — The Race: 1915
Freida Abtan — My Heart Is A River
Seth Parker Woods, cello
Fredrick Gifford – Difficult Grace
Monty Adkins – Winter Tendrils (with film by Zoë McLean)
Nathalie Joachim – The Race: 1915 (with images of Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series)
Freida Abtan – My Heart Is A River
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay – asinglewordisnotenough 3 [invariant] (with choreographer/dancer Roderick George)
Hailed by The Guardian as “a cellist of power and grace” who possesses “mature artistry and willingness to go to the brink,” cellist and 2020-21 Kaufman Music Center Artist-in-Residence Seth Parker Woods has established a reputation as a versatile artist straddling several genres. The works presented are excerpted from his solo show “Difficult Grace,” which draws inspiration from the Great Migration, archive research in the year 1915 of the historic newspaper The Chicago Defender, immigration, acts of translation and commentaries on the human condition, and their present and past histories. A few of the works feature roles for a speaking cellist, and all works on the program have an electronic component with film or visual artwork by Jacob Lawrence, Barbara Earl Thomas, Zoë McLean and Freida Abtan.
The performance begins at 7pm Eastern / 4pm Pacific, streaming live from Merkin Hall at the Kaufman Music Center in NYC.
This performance will be available to ticket buyers through June 1, 2021.