MUSIC

Zorn@70: Cobra

SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 2023
8:00 PM

Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn

$35 advance; $30 door; $25 students/seniors
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As part of his 70th Birthday celebration, John Zorn presents an iteration of his famous game piece Cobra.  Cobra is a group improvisation in which the ensemble is instructed what, in general, to do by cue cards held up by a "prompter", who in turn is guided in his or her selection of cues by what the ensemble did in response to the last cue.   It all depends, of course, on the imagination and acuity of the players in the ensemble -- and this one includes (among many others) (and not to make any invidious selections) electronics whiz Ikue Mori, the ubiquitous guitar of Wendy Eisenberg, and Next Big NYC percussionist Sae Hashimoto.

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