7:30 "A Wiser More Beautiful Death"
The Final Ten Poems of Miklós Radnóti
Roberto DeHaven - reading/bass clarinet/flute/percussion, Dylan Morgan - elec cello/foot percussion/effects Gil Rodriguez - actor
8:30 Nick Lyons solo saxophone (NYC)
"A Wiser More Beautiful Death" is a improvisational music dedication to Miklós Radnóti a Jewish Hungarian poet who was murdered by the Yugoslav Partisans during a forced march to central Hungary.
Eighteen months after his death, the mass grave was exhumed and in the front pocket of Radnóti's overcoat his small notebook of final poems was found. The final poems are lyrical and poignant and represent some of the few works of literature composed during the Holocaust that survived. Possibly his best known poem is the fourth stanza of the Razglednicák, where he describes the shooting of another man and then envisions his own death.
Nick Lyons is a Brooklyn-based alto saxophone player, musician, improviser. Born 1982 in New York City. Projects include: NL Quartet with Adam Caine (g), John Wagner (d), and Adam Lane or Ken Filiano (b) NL Trio with John Wagner, Adam Lane NL / Carol Liebowitz (pno, vcl) Duo Cheryl RIchards (vcl) / NL Duo Solo Alto Saxophone Also performs with Connie Crothers, Ratzo Harris, Ken FIliano, Lorenzo Sanguedolce
Cost: $10/8