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To the North... Estonian pianist Ivari Ilja creates a recital that is highly satisfying in itself, but with each work repaying further attention
[…] and feels closer to Ronald Stevenson's Passacaglia on DSCH than many other contemporary works. Vähi very much takes us on a journey, the music moving between violence and spareness, but always with the original material lurking behind. Until we reach our destination, and this is very much a case of 'in my end is in my beginning'.Ilja follows this with another substantial work, the Ballade in the form of a chaconne on a theme by Mart Saar by Eduard Tubin. The melody, which comes from a choral work by Estonian composer Mart Saar (1882-1963), is Tubin (in exile in Sweden in the 1940s) paying homage to an older Estonian composer by creating a substantial chaconne on Saar's theme. Over a restless, dark LH melody, the gradual more powerful RH motif develops, it is changeable and full of vivid drama, again something of a compendium of moods.Next comes Kõrvits' Three Pieces from 2014, three contrasting […]
2020-04-29 19:23:00
John Malveaux: Betye Saar (b. 1926, Los Angeles) is an African decent artist whose work consistently speaks to issues of race, gender, and spirituality.
Betye Saar John Malveaux of MusicUNTOLD.com writes: Betye Saar (b. 1926, Los Angeles) is an African decent artist whose work consistently speaks to issues of race, gender, and spirituality. Known as an assemblage artist, Saar's work combines many different symbols along with objects found on her travels across Africa, Mexico, Asia, Europe, and the Caribbean and especially in Los Angeles.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7CFz9xzhIM
2019-10-24 20:43:36
Doreen St. Félix writes about the assemblage art of Betye Saar, which is featured in a new exhibit, “The Legends of ‘Black Girl’s Window,’ ” at the Museum of Modern Art.
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ArtsJournal: music
2019-09-06 17:04:18
At 93, Betye Saar Is Finally Achieving Mainstream Art-World Stardom
“After a latish start as an artist — she was in her 30s — she made steady initial headway in a male-dominated Black Power movement and a white-dominated feminist movement. And she has held her own in a mainstream art market that has been, until very recently, unwelcoming to African-American art.” Now she has solo […]
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