Jennifer Koh: Alone Together

MUSIC
SATURDAY, MAY 30, 2020 (Weekly)
7:00 PM

ARCO Collaborative
Instragram & Facebook Live Streams; YouTube Video

Free
https://arcocollaborative.net/projects/AloneTogether/index.html

An almost staggeringly well-intentioned initiative (and I mean that in the most complimentary way possible) from the fantastic violinist Jennifer Koh.  The idea is this:  there are active composers who have stable incomes from salaries or grants and other forms of institutional support; and there are active composers who freelance.  Koh approached 21 composers have who stable incomes and asked them each to donate a 30-second micropiece for solo violin; in addition, she asked each of those composers to recommend a freelance composer, each of whom will be paid to compose a 30-second micropiece.  Koh (who is donating her own considerable services) will premiere a few of the resulting works every Saturday at 7:00 PM on Instagram and Facebook live streams; if you don't feel comfortable exposing your personal data to the Evil Empire of Surveillance Capitalism, the shows will then reside on YouTube as videos.  Just beyond great.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  This is a sort of Improved (or maybe that should be "Reconciled") Modern Cocktail (note that this cocktail originated in the early 20th Century, so this is what somebody thought was "modern" then):  pour 2 oz. blended Scotch, 1 oz. Swedish Punsch, 1/4 oz. each of Absinthe and lemon juice, and 1 teaspoon of Grendine into an ice-filled cocktail shaker.  Shake.  Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.