The one example was Xenakis “Tetras,” one of JACK’s signature wildly woolly party pieces, to conclude the Wallis program that was otherwise a fascinatingly quirky look at the string quartet, American style. At REDCAT, JACK joined the Bay Area’s Lightbulb Ensemble for an experiment in combining a string quartet with a contemporary gamelan, exploring new uses for traditional Indonesian gongs and other beaten percussion instruments. Ruth Crawford Seeger’s String Quartet, written 20 years before Feldman’s “Structures,” pronounced the 30-year-old composer (and stepmother of folksinger Pete Seeger) to be the next great American Modernist. Casey Affleck talks about the way Kenneth Lonergan uses everyday language to convey deep emotion in "Manchester by the Sea." Casey Affleck talks about the way Kenneth Lonergan uses everyday language to convey deep emotion in "Manchester by the Sea."

Source: Los Angeles Times January 16, 2017 23:54 UTC