Michael Bates' Acrobat / ALTA String Quartet
$10 suggested donation
- Michael Bates, double bass
- Fung Chern Hwei, violin
Acrobat, the quintet led by bassist/composer Michael Bates, features five fearless voices exploring one of music's most mysterious personalities, Dmitri Shostakovich. With literal themes by Shostakovich or themes composed with his spirit, "Acrobat" is full of music that is playful yet dark and swinging. And while Shostakovich is clearly being channeled, the voices of these five fantastic improvisers will be on full display: Beautiful and vicious, elegant and dissonant, and humor laced with serene sarcasm.
The ALTA String Quartet present radically different explorations of two dissident composers: Dmitri Shostakovich and Witold Lutoslawski. This is music filled with hidden messages mocking a regime that willfully crushed people. With the war continuing in Ukraine, this is timely and vital music.
7:30pm doors, 8pm show.