MUSIC

John Tavener: The Protecting Veil

FRIDAY, MAY 26, 2023
7:00 PM

The Angel’s Share
The Catacombs, Green-Wood Cemetery
500 25th Street, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn

$65
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John Tavener’s concertante cello piece The Protecting Veil seemed like a Big Deal when it came out in the late ‘80s: a British companion to Górecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. But while the Gorecki lives on, the Tavener has come to seem wan and self-satisfied: a very British form of Holy Minimalism. It seems only appropriate to the ultimate depth of this piece that this porframance will be preceded by a tacos-and-tequila bar. Cellist Joshua Roman and the Contemporaneus ensemble should be eloquent advocates, though.

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