2019 Resonant Bodies Festival Earns Wall-to-Wall Coverage
“Explorations shared in a spirit of generosity and intimacy.” From The New York Times and The New Yorker to Gothamist and Man Repeller, New York’s Resonant Bodies Festival was on everyone’s radar.
September 5, 2019
““The Resonant Bodies Festival empowers singers to flex their creativity with experimental vocal-music programs of their own design. It’s a testament to the attractiveness of that invitation that this year’s edition has drawn big names from the mainstream classical and contemporary scenes who want in on the artistic liberation.””
Described by The New York Times as the festival that “brings the musical world back to school,” the 2019 Resonant Bodies Festival earned widespread coverage in mainstream and classical music media.
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From features and interviews in The New York Times, NewMusicBox, and Brooklyn Paper, and previews in Brooklyn Based, Gothamist, Log Journal, Man Repeller, and The New Yorker, to shout-outs in The New York Times and Playbill, and reviews in The New York Times, Seen and Heard International, and San Francisco Classical Voice, ResBods was everywhere people were reading about new music or can’t-miss Brooklyn events.
Burleigh Society Concert at Carnegie Hall Praised for Performance, Promise
“A stinging rebuke to still-active demeaning stereotypes that cast black people as sassy, loud, and unrefined.” The Harry T. Burleigh Society concert, featuring the Fisk Jubilee Singers, earned critical acclaim from the Log Journal.
March 6, 2019
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““Burleigh’s spiritual arrangements are artful and jewel-like, deftly weaving voices into a seamless texture [with] aching suspensions and rich, surprising dissonances…””
The March 2 Harry T. Burleigh Society concert at Carnegie Hall, featuring the Fisk Jubilee Singers, earned critical acclaim from the Log Journal.
“While it would technically be accurate to call the Jubilee Singers a college a cappella ensemble, the designation does not do them justice. They sing, with uncanny precision, in a plush bel canto style… It allowed for the haunting, otherworldly conclusion to In Bright Mansions. In a haloed murmur, the basses sang a repeating descending figure, lingering on each note that rubbed against the diaphanous held chord in the upper voices – a frisson of quiet ecstasy, a premonition of Heaven."
“Wade in the Water is…a pungent, brooding arrangement of a tune laced with buried, righteous anger. In the quiet, refined style of the Fisk Singers, it was hair-raising. Other songs affirmed the necessity of hope, promising Heaven as a release from literal bondage; Wade in the Water affirmed the necessity of justice, promising a reckoning far too long overdue.”