Jessie Montgomery
Strum
Choreography by Tara Schaufuss
11 August 2022, Musikhuset København
program notes
Jessie Montgomery was born and raised in Manhattan in the 1980s and her music often weaves classical vocabulary with vernacular music, improvisation, poetry, and ideas of social consciousness.
This 2012 version of her piece Strum is inspired by the spirit of dance and American folk music. Strumming pizzicato serves as the piece's anchor, and layers of rhythm and harmony form a bed of sound from which melodies weave in and out - nostalgic at first but building to an ecstatic finish.
concert details
”No-Man’s Land”
11 August 2022, 19:30
Musikhuset København
Program:
Jessie Montgomery: Strum
Amy Beach: Piano Quintet in F# Minor
Caroline Shaw: Entr’acte
Amy Beach: Pastorale
Louise Farrenc: Sextet for Piano and Winds
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