Concert Review: Composer + String Quartet
Concert Review: Composer + String Quartet CompCord String Quartet Lynn Bechtold and Machiko Ozawa - violins Eddy Malave - viola, Valeriya Sholokhova - cello Michael Wolff Trio Michael Wolff - piano, Ben Allison - bass, Mike Campenni - drums Soloists: Milica Paranosic - vocals, Adriana Valdes - soprano, Craig Harris - trombone, Gene Pritsker - rapper, Dan Cooper - bass guitar, Samuel Torres - congas, Max Pollak - tap dancer/body percussion, John Ferrari - drums Sunday, January 23, 2022 DROM NYC The mashing up of non classical genres into a classical idiom is nothing new. Composers like Bela Bartok and Igor Stravinsky have done it to the hilt with the folk music that they grew up with. But at Composer Concordance’s “Composer + String Quartet” concert at DROM in NYC, this practice was applied anew. All six composers on the program doubled as performers with the dynamic CompCord String Quartet and made great stuff out of molding their unique b...