The concert on Tuesday at The Conrad in La Jolla was an experiment in withholding information from listeners
On Tuesday, Alisa Weilerstein presented a concert of J.S. Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G major interleaved with five living composers.Unless you grabbed a pamphlet-sized program on your way out the door of Baker-Baum Concert Hall at The Conrad in La Jolla, you’d never know.I’m great at playing “Drop The Needle,” but even I was at a loss to identify who wrote the recent music on Weilerstein’s concert, “Fragments I.
Weilerstein writes that she wanted “to strip away our own natural instincts to categorize and contextualize everything we hear and see … what would our experience of music be like if we could be given the chance to simply listen first?”My thoughts at the beginning were: “What’s this piece? It’s not Bach. It’s lyrical and dramatic, with long melodies that take advantage of Weilerstein’s cantabile tone.
Could I hear any of this diversity reflected in their compositions? No. . They generally tended towards a middle-of-the-road musical language. A piece from Liza Lim, Mary Halvorson, or George Lewis would have really expanded the musical diversity here.
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