The New Yorker on Talea Ensemble: Adamcyk's Father, My Father
The New Yorker on Talea Ensemble: Adamcyk's Father, My Father
By
Steve Smith
The upcoming Music of the Americas concert was featured in Goings on About Town.
The omnivorous, invaluable Talea Ensemble presents the première of an evening-length work by David Adamcyk, a Canadian composer, installation artist, and sound engineer. Adamcyk describes “Father, My Father” as a reflection on the #MeToo movement from a father’s perspective; the piece involves an immersive audio collage of recorded poems, texts, and interview fragments that represent different ages and perspectives, played in alternation with segments of live music featuring the incisive soprano Lucy Dhegrae...
