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Pete Malinverni + Juliet Kurtzman: Candlelight Quartet at Chelsea Table + Stage
Courtesy of Jen Arvay | Posted on August 23, 2021
When
Thu, August 26, 2021
7:00 pm
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Musicians
Pete Malinverni
pianoJuliet Kurtzman
violinAbout
PETE MALINVERNI / JULIET KURTZMAN CANDLELIGHT QUARTET play music from their acclaimed new recording, “Candlelight - Love in the Time of Cholera”, inspired by the great novel of that name by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez. Spotlighting music of the Americas, from Tangos to Ragtime to Jazz, this program calls to mind an earlier age, when Romance was to be sought, and Love was known to conquer all.
Stereophile said their newest recording …“is more a juxtaposition than a blend. Kurtzman portrays melodies in a violin sound of surpassing purity. Malinverni creates spontaneous embellishments and rhythmic sparks and displacements that could only come from a jazz musician. He takes infrequent, vivid solos. On “Oblivion”, he follows Kurtzman’s haunting portrayal of Astor Piazzolla’s theme with an improvised new corollary of that theme, also haunting"....