With Fragments, cellist Alisa Weilerstein creates a space for performer, composer, and listener that is at once physically intimate and philosophically expansive. This groundbreaking project for solo cello that weaves together the 36 movements of Bach\u2019s solo cello suites and 27 newly commissioned works, dividing the whole into six hour-long Chapters, is to be released over several seasons.<\/p>\n
Within each Chapter, individual movements from a single suite and a selection of new works are mindfully arranged into a new emotional arc, set within an atmosphere of responsive lighting and scenic architecture. The music is performed without pause and without a program, creating a wholly original experience that empowers audiences to surrender to their senses.<\/p>\n
Alisa Weilerstein was recognized with a MacArthur \u201cgenius grant\u201d Fellowship in 2011. \u201cWeilerstein is a throwback to an earlier age of classical performers: not content merely to serve as a vessel for the composer\u2019s wishes, she inhabits a piece fully and turns it to her own ends,\u201d marvels The New York Times. \u201cWeilerstein\u2019s cello is her id. She doesn\u2019t give the impression that making music involves will at all. She and the cello seem simply to be one and the same,\u201d says the Los Angeles Times. As the Telegraph put it, \u201cWeilerstein is truly a phenomenon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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