MUSIC

Michael Hersch: sew me into a shroud of leaves

SATURDAY, MAY 13, 2023
9:00 AM

National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

$45 full day; $20 per segment
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This List usually promotes works that are in some sense fun. Michael Hersch’s music is not fun. Michael Hersch’s music couldn’t be more dourly serious if it were wearing a cassock and contemplating a skull. But it’s deeply affecting: you really feel like you’ve been through something after you hear it. That’ll certainly be the case with this eleven-hour three-part epic (and this isn’t even the longest thing Hersch has written). The opening and closing segments are for solo piano. The middle segment features the eloquent horn and cello of Jamie Hersch and Mariel Roberts.

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