Carol Emanuel: Press

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"To call the collaboration presented at the Guggenheim Museum on Monday night unlikely is to understate the case by an order of magnitude. There was John Zorn, a chameleonic New York composer whose work has fruitfully touched on everything from chamber music to death metal.  And there was Sophiline Cheam Shapiro, an innovative choreographer who has pushed at the boundaries of classical Cambodian dance with her Khmer Arts Academy in California. . .

The program opened with selections from Mr. Zorn’s “Sefer Shirim shel Shir Ha-Shirim,” a new collection of short pieces. Melodies styled after Jewish folk music uncurled over seductive lounge-music textures and ostinato rhythms. Openly courting nostalgic exotica, the music had an irresistible charm, particularly when Carol Emanuel’s charismatic harp playing intersected with Kenny Wollesen’s undulating vibraphone chords."

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