The Matisse Project
Today’s episode at
the Hartford Library’s Sunday Jazz series featured a duet that played with
vigor and purpose. There was the insightful masterful pianist Christopher
Bakriges and the soulful gifted Gwen Laster on violin.
The lazy hazy winter Sunday entertainment also
featured musical arrangements that paid homage to the legendary French painter
Henry Matisse and a speaker who added even more focus on the theme by reciting
some of Matisse’s inspiring life. The
speaker, an actual reverend, was a gentle but opposing man large in stature
dark skin and with gray dreadlocks who spoke with a committed baritone voice
that anchored the legendary artist story.
The duet and
speaker entertained in the library’s auditorium that had a built in projector
that showed images of Matisse’s work on a large screen behind the performers as
they performed.
Some of Matisse’s
more astonishing life events and ground breaking artistic theorems were noted
like his way of seeing color as form, his life time commitment to art even in old
age along with his traumatic family events in war torn France.
Below:
Two sketches of the
duet and the reverend in pen and ink
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