Concert Review: Low Key Chamber Concert #7
Concert Review: Low Key Chamber Concert #7 Lev 'Ljova' Zhurbin - fadolÃn & Gene Pritsker - guitar Featuring poets Robert C. Ford & Erik T. Johnson @ The Sky Vault presented by Composers Concordance October 30th, 2021 Set on Halloween eve at the Sky Vault in lower Manhattan you may ask what is a fadolÃn? Short answer: a variant of the violin. As played by Lev Zhurbin, who happens to have named the instrument and is a leading composer of caprices for it, this concert was most interesting. Starting the program with a deeply reflective and introspective poem, Robert C. Ford provided us with his own “cycle of life” template. The interactive nature of the poem sat well with the audience. Continuing Gene Pritsker's performances of pieces written during the pandemic last year, Gene and Lev collaborated brilliantly on Pandemic Dance #20 at once uplifting and uptempo, with even a country twang thrown in. Lev’s three compositions on the program showed how he is expanding the