Double Duo on Berns Arts
Lisa Moore official site
Karen Bentley Pollick official site
Joel Davel official site/
Dresher Ensemble official site
Martin Bresnick official site
 
“All performers united at the end of the evening for a finale that was truly grand. The piece was Martin Bresnick’s Fantasia On A Theme by Willie Dixon, whose tongue-in-cheek title evokes both Ralph Vaughan Williams’ fantasia based on a hymn by Thomas Tallis and Sixties Rock. Willie Dixon was a leading Chicago blues singer who influenced not only the origins of rock and roll but also the transformation of rock brought on by groups such as The Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead, and the Jimi Hendrix Experience. The “theme” for Bresnick’s fantasia is Spoonful not so much in the way that Dixon sang it as in the way that Cream recorded it… Like Glimpsed From Afar this was music to get the blood flowing and the limbs pulsing in rhythm, the perfect way to send the audience home with a bounce in their steps.” (Stephen Smoliar, April 13, 2013; San Francisco Examiner)