MUSIC

The Chelsea Symphony feat. Lady Jess / Lucrecia Dalt

FRIDAY, JULY 21, 2023
7:30 PM

Celebrate Brooklyn
Lena Horn Bandshell, Prospect Park, Brooklyn

Free
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Go for opener Lucrecia Dalt, whose electronic music is expansive and enthralling. But don’t feel you have to stay. The Chelsea Symphony is dedicated to doing two things (both in the name of “outreach”): (1) playing repertoire by marginalized composers, and (2) playing new music in pop classical styles like the one they confusingly call “Neo-Classical” in the UK. As for (2), I call bullshit on that music; I’m sticking with Brooklyn. As for (1), there’s a lot of music out there that deserves to be played but hasn’t been, for the worst possible reasons (just ask Alvin Singleton, or — not that he can answer you — Joseph White). But that doesn’t mean we need to attend to more backward-looking superannuated Late Romantic gunk just because its composers were unfairly discriminated against during their lifetimes. I mean, sure, their works should be played if similar works by non-marginalized composers are. But that doesn’t mean I need to listen.

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