The intimate, in-the-round Soundstreams production — which pairs “Do You Believe,” Vivier’s final pages, with “Music for the End,” some of his first — doesn’t suggest his complicity in his own murder. “How do you end an ending about the end?” this Vivier asks, over and over. The performers here wear ashen-tone black, gray and brown, like the anonymous denizens on the outskirts of our lives. The work’s impassioned central tenor, who performs a kind of stylized love song with a vocalizing soprano, recedes for a final spoken narration. After Mr. Ivanovici’s Vivier shouted his climactic existential questions and screamed, the group slowly proceeded out of the space.

Source: New York Times October 29, 2017 17:48 UTC