Quiet Night
A few hours after sitting in Trinity Church for Tenebrae, I stopped by Barbes for Bethany's Stochastic Brooklyn, catching the second half of David Moore's octet Bing and Ruth. Moore composes pieces of quiet, shimmering beauty, incorporating sounds you might hear at a Meredith Monk or Steve Reich show, but altered through some mysterious alchemy. Moore led from the piano; he was joined by keening vocalists Becca Stevens and Jean Rohe, clarinetists Jeremy Viner and Patrick Breiner, cellists Greg Heffernan and Leigh Stuart, bassist Jeff Ratner, and Percussionist Chris Berry.