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The Death of Simone Weil

  October 12, 2017 8:00 PM

The Death of Simone Weil was first performed at the BPC in 2001. The recording of that concert was released by Innova Recordgins. With music by Darrell Katz and text by Paula Tatarunis, “The Death of Simone Weil” deals with the imagination, WWII, desire, fishing, and the Pope. Weil’s story unfolds like a surreal jazz improvisation that seamlessly mixes modern composition and the entire jazz legacy into a mature and personal style.

The alto voice of Rebecca Shrimptoneffortlessly captures the subtle shadings of the starkly beautiful text. Boston’s powerfully virtuosic Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra accompanies with fistfuls of fire.

“The Death of Simone Weil” stands out in the jazz vocal tradition in terms of both scale and ambition, and whose depth and economy of expression are worthy of the subject. All in all, it’s an exciting soirée with the far-out, the insane, and the beautifully strange.

 

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