PRICE: Admission: $8 in advance / $12 day of show
PHONE: 617-747-2409
TIME: 08:00 pm
The Death of Simone Weil was first performed at the Berklee
Performance Center in 2001. With music by Darrell Katz and text by Paula
Tatarunis, The Death of Simone Weil deals with imagination, World War II,
desire, fishing, and the Pope. Weil’s story unfolds like a surreal jazz
improvisation that seamlessly mixes modern composition and the entire jazz
legacy into a mature and personal style.
The alto voice of Rebecca Shrimpton effortlessly captures
the subtle shadings of the starkly beautiful text, while Boston’s virtuosic
Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra accompanies with fistfuls of fire.
The Death of Simone Weil stands out in the jazz vocal
tradition in terms of scale and ambition, with a depth and economy of
expression that are worthy of the subject. All in all, it’s an exciting soirée
with the far-out, the insane, and the beautifully strange.