Saratoga Arts Presents: In This Moment
Saratoga Arts is hosting a night of improvisational music inspired by poetry that explores autumnal transformation, moments of reflection, and the enduring strength of hope and community on Friday, September 25 starting at 7 p.m. Tickets are $20 in advance or $25 at the door available at eventbrite.com.
Poems drawn from the works of Fenton Johnson, Walt Whitman, Sara Teasdale, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, will evoke musical performances from an ensemble of master musicians known as “In This Moment.” Poetry is their springboard for improvised music that is natural, effortless, and willing to ride the freely flowing currents of spontaneity without set arrangements, roadmaps or conventional song forms.
Poetry will be read by Kristina Kulin, and will feature musical performances by Shiri Zorn, Mark Kleinhaut, Ed Green and Brian Melick.
Kulin has explored the art of performance as a dancer, actress, singer, public speaker, and musician. She is the founder and creative director of Lit Night, a series of literature appreciation events which she curates around a different theme each month.
Zorn is an innovative jazz vocalist whose fresh and intercultural sound reinvents the standard jazz repertoire as we know it. She layers American Songbook tunes with Middle Eastern influences and unexpected time signatures.
Kleinhaut is a guitarist who focused this past decade almost entirely on improvised compositional performance in small group and solo formats.
Green, on cello, brings musical wisdom from a lifetime of experiences beginning as a trombonist in New York City big bands and the pits of Broadway theaters to being a first call bass player in the Capitol Region to the intimate voice of the cello where Ed now finds his passion and expression.
Melick has been professionally involved in music for over 50 years,the depth and breadth of his experience as a percussionist, performer and recording artist provides a near limitless palette of rhythms, textures and bending of time and space.