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Jennifer Koh and Ensemble LPR at (le) Poisson Rouge

Last night, trailblazing violinist Jennifer Koh was joined by Ensemble LPR at (le) Poisson Rouge. They came together for a night of music by John Zorn, Charles Wuorinen, and Ludwig van Beethoven as a part of the LPR X5 festival. All of the pieces, ‘Passagen’ by Zorn, ‘Spin-5 for Violin and 18 Musicians’ by Wuorinen, and Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony brought a sense of wild abandon that perfectly complemented the youth and excitement of both Koh and Ensemble LPR.
Koh brought a fiery passion to John Zorn’s ‘Passagen’ for solo violin, which, like Wuorinen’s, was written for Ms. Koh. The piece is rife with rapid shifts from tight, intense tremolos and harsh pizzicato to tender ghostly harmonics. Sometimes, just sometimes, Koh coaxed out a single pure clean ethereal note or phrase that would sing out from the chaos before it was swallowed up again. The uneven rhythmic chords and pizzicato playing gave a distinctly Bartokian flavor, a flavor that was enhanced by Koh’s savage bowing.

LPR Membership Giveaway!

To celebrate their LPR X5 festival, (le) Poisson Rouge is offering their exclusive "School of Fish" membership to two lucky FoM readers! Members get access to over 100 free shows every year,

LPR x 5

"We wanted to revive the symbiotic relationship between art and revelry, to establish a creative asylum for both artists and audiences." – Justin Kantor and David Handler, LPR co-founders break

Nikolay Khozyainov Makes Carnegie Hall Debut

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Germany 2013: Leipzig

I may have done things in reverse, but after all of the concerts this week in the Wartburg, Dresden, and Bayreuth, I've finally found myself in Leipzig, where Wagner was born

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