Celebrate Autumnal Transformation with In This Moment
About this Event
Welcome to the celebration of the changing season!
Advance tickets $20 -----------Cash at the door $25
Come join us at Saratoga Art’s Gallery on Broadway for an unforgettable night of improvisational music inspired by poetry readings that explore autumnal transformation, moments of reflection, and the enduring strength of hope and community. Poems drawn from the works of Fenton Johnson, Walt Whitman, Sara Teasdale, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, evoking musical performances from tonight’s ensemble of master musicians known as “In This Moment”. Poetry is their springboard for improvised music that is natural, effortless, and willing to ride the freely flowing currents of spontaneity without set arrangements, roadmaps or conventional song forms. Pulling from a deep well of musical talent: Shiri's luminous crystalline vocals, Mark's rich orchestral fretwork, Ed's warmly poetic cello, and Brian’s propulsive textures and humor, these four brilliant performers have discovered a unique musical palette and compositional mindset to craft soundscapes and storylines tapping the far reaches of their collective musical styles. The result is familiarly exotic, alluringly peaceful and comfortably challenging.
Friday, September 25 will be a special opportunity for the quartet to share their artistic journey as they celebrate the autumnal season - anything can happen and you will surely want to be there!
Shiri Zorn is an innovative jazz vocalist whose fresh and intercultural sound reinvents the standard jazz repertoire as we know it. She layers American Songbook tunes with Middle Eastern influences and unexpected time signatures. She reharmonizes Latin and Samba classics to evoke feelings of transcendence, temporarily rendering the listener lost to time and space. In the free-form context, she is quick witted and instinctively nimble with an uncanny sense of providing order and compositional qualities to completely improvised proceedings. “…Zorn inhabits her luminous soprano voice like a nightingale on the wing. She inhabits song lyrics and narratives as if they speak to her in the secret space of her heart”-- Raul Da Gamba.
Mark Kleinhaut is a guitarist who focused this past decade almost entirely on improvised compositional performance in small group and solo formats. He employs a clear acoustic natural guitar sound to develop an array of textures and tones, from woody richness to bell-like harmonics, using the full range of his fretboard to achieve orchestral qualities of melody, counterpoint and non-traditional harmonies. Perhaps above all, it is his use of space and sense of timing which evokes a sense of travels and stories created during one of his performances; the music is allowed to freely flow and evolve as it occurs. Drawing from a deep background in jazz and tapping into the language of other musical forms, Kleinhaut's journey is one of ever-changing discovery of the beauty and joy in sound. His music is contemplative and curious, excitedly pursuing what lies around the next musical corner.
Ed Green, on cello, is the musical conversational partner we all wish we had come across sooner. He is a deep and active listener, providing support and encouragement for expanding upon collective ideas, but then offers timely counter points to illuminate a new and perhaps unseen musical path. He is the perfect foil. Ed brings musical wisdom from a lifetime of experiences beginning as a trombonist in New York City big bands and the pits of Broadway theaters to being a first call bass player in the Capitol Region to the intimate voice of the cello where Ed now finds his passion and expression.
Brian Melick most recently joined our ensemble with his unique ability to make us all laugh at ourselves and embrace the childlike nature we feel when inhibitions are dropped for the sake of embracing each moment of making music. Being professionally involved in music for over 50 years, the depth and breadth of his experience as a percussionist, performer and recording artist provides a near limitless palette of rhythms, textures and bending of time and space. He’s featured on hundreds of albums, written books, motion picture soundtracks, published DVDs and travelled the world performing and teaching, but it’s his complete presence in the moment of each live performance that’s an experience not to miss.
Kristina Kulin has explored the art of performance as a dancer, actress, singer, public speaker, and musician. Growing up in a family of artists, writers, teachers, and musicians in Brooklyn, NY, she developed a fascination with and appreciation of human expression from an early age. Kulin is the founder and creative director of Lit Night, a series of literature appreciation events which she curates around a different theme each month. Audience members listen to live readings and commentary on poetry and prose in an intimate and relaxed setting in downtown Saratoga Springs, NY.
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USD 23.18
