My favorite set of the festival took root at the Logan Center Performance Hall. Dee Alexander’s Ancestors Reign was every ounce the supergroup it had promised to be.
In truth, Giovanni covered little ground from the album, and as she herself admits, she’s not much of a singer. But her appearance was less about the music itself than the stories behind them, tales which swung between the uproarious and profound. She told the crowd that she wanted to include “Night Song” on the album because Nina Simone, a close friend, had long felt it was one of her most underrated recordings.
At one point, Giovanni had to navigate a tense moment when a man briefly shouted her down from the back of Hyde Park Union Church. It was hard to grasp what, exactly, the heckler was getting at, but he seemed to accuse Giovanni of having “blood on her hands” after the 2007 mass shooting at Virginia Tech, where Giovanni taught until last year. Giovanni calmly stared down the man until he was done raving and the door clicked behind him.
In fact, Barron was partway through a Monk title, “Shuffle Boil,” when someone, or something, accidentally killed the lights above the altar, plunging Barron and his concert grand into near-darkness. Barron didn’t miss a beat, or a note. The lights came back on, before the end of the tune, but he didn’t acknowledge the snafu at all in his warm, informative comments between pieces.
Had it been a dream? It almost felt that way. But that moment was as real as they come: Barron faintly illuminated from behind, his monkish pate stooped over the keys in silhouette, as strangers sat shoulder-to-shoulder in something like prayer.The Rubin Institute for Music Criticism helps fund our classical music coverage. The Chicago Tribune maintains editorial control over assignments and content.
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