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Jazz In The Neighborhood: Pascal Le Boeuf's "ritual Being" at Rendon Hall
Courtesy of Jan Woo | Posted on April 26, 2018
Where
Rendon Hall
2040 Addison Street
Berkeley, CA
Map
510.845.5373
When
Wed, May 23, 2018
7:30 pm
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Musicians
Pascal Le Boeuf
keyboardsFriction
variousAbout
Grammy nominated composer, pianist, and producer Pascal Le Boeuf’s works range from modern improvised music to cross-bred classical with production-based technology, with a polyrhythmic approach to chamber music. Le Boeuf returns to the Bay Area for a special performance of his large-scale work “Ritual Being,” a 9-piece jazz/classical collaboration between San Francisco’s Friction String Quartet and LeBoeuf’s own quintet. This work explores the propitious and disastrous rituals of the manifestation of human behavior at micro/macro levels and asks what happens when we project our individual behaviors and routines onto the whole of our species? "Ritual Being" was made possible by support from Chamber Music America’s 2015 New Jazz Works program funded through the generosity of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation....