The 21st Jewish Music Festival presents Paul Dresher on the Quadrachord, a new instrument of his own invention, in concert with Joel Davel, who will be playing the Marimba Lumina, an electronic percussion controller invented by Don Buchla. Mr. Dresher will be performing in-progress music that he is developing for “Slipping Glimpse,” a commission from the Margret Jenkins Dance Company that will premiere on May 17th at the Center for the Arts in San Francisco. This performance will be part of Jewish Fringes, Thursday, March 16, 2006; 7:30 pm at the Thrust Stage/Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
“I was startled by how often his concert put me in mind of the more experimental San Francisco rock music of the 1960s… Dresher is far more technically sophisticated, of course … [but his] ensembles maintain some of the strange, spirited “from-scratch” qualities of a communal musical quest that made the best of that long-ago music so compelling.
-Tim Page, Washington Post
“Dresher’s rock-postminimal-world-music ensemble is the Bay Area's answer to New York's Bang on a Can—a little less macho, smoother, and with a Pacific Rim flavor. The highlight of this rare East Coast appearance, though, may be the premiere of a quintessentially New York work: Creating the World, by Eve Beglarian, gutsy and unusually bristling with her subliminal world-music samples.”
-Kyle Gann, Village Voice