Ekmeles: A Time for Everything (second time)

MUSIC
SATURDAY, MAY 8, 2021
5:30 PM

Ekemeles Stream

Free
https://ekmeles.com/wp/2021/04/a-time-for-everything-second-time/

This was the program of the first concert the fabulous vocal ensemble Ekmeles was forced to cancel last year. Now, they're gonna try again — remotely. There'll be an opening set by pianist/composer Courtney Bryan — who also provides the title piece of the program proper. But the big news, as far as I'm concerned, is a piece by The Composer Of The Moment, Julius Eastman (too bad he's been dead for 30 years), who is to minimalist music approximately what Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker is to minimalist dance: he brings the clutching, drenching emotion into what in other hands can be a cold style. I play a lot of Alt and Contemporary Classical for people who don't listen to classical music (it's part of my ongoing attempt, of which this List is the flagship, to make people realize that they'd like this music if they could only get over the fact that it's called "classical"). And it's almost always Julius Eastman they like the best.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Baroque: pour 1-1/2 oz. dark Rum, 3/4 oz. each of Gin and lime juice, 1/4 teaspoon Maraschino liqueur, and 1/2 teaspoon Simple Syrup into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.