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Thu November 21, 2019

Experiments in Sonic Potential: Ben Goldberg

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Clarinetist Ben Goldberg performs in conversation with the ceramic sculptures on view in the current exhibition "Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped."

Ben Goldberg leads or co-leads The Out Louds, Invisible Guy, Unfold Ordinary Mind; Go Home; Ben Goldberg School; and Ben Goldberg Trio with Greg Cohen and Kenny Wollesen. He is a member of the avant-chamber jazz ensemble Tin Hat; and performs in a duo with pianist Myra Melford called DIALOGUE, among a wide range of other affiliations.

In 1992, when Goldberg's group New Klezmer Trio "kicked open the door for radical experiments with Ashkenazi roots music" (SF Chronicle), he established himself as "one of the most vibrant, flexible, and inventive clarinetists in jazz and improvised music" (Downbeat), "an artist who seems to find beautiful melodies at the end of every path" (NPR). The New York Times has noted Goldberg's music for "a feeling of joyous research into the basics of polyphony and collective improvising," and he was named #1 Rising Star Clarinetist in the Downbeat Critics Poll in both 2011 and 2013. In 2015, Ben released Orphic Machine, a song-cycle with lyrics from the "speculative poetics" of Allen Grossman, performed by a nine-piece ensemble to critical acclaim.

Developed in partnership with the Center for New Music.

FREE as part of Culture for Community.

Presented by Contemporary Jewish Museum
Clarinetist Ben Goldberg performs in conversation with the ceramic sculptures on view in the current exhibition "Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped."

Ben Goldberg leads or co-leads The Out Louds, Invisible Guy, Unfold Ordinary Mind; Go Home; Ben Goldberg School; and Ben Goldberg Trio with Greg Cohen and Kenny Wollesen. He is a member of the avant-chamber jazz ensemble Tin Hat; and performs in a duo with pianist Myra Melford called DIALOGUE, among a wide range of other affiliations.

In 1992, when Goldberg's group New Klezmer Trio "kicked open the door for radical experiments with Ashkenazi roots music" (SF Chronicle), he established himself as "one of the most vibrant, flexible, and inventive clarinetists in jazz and improvised music" (Downbeat), "an artist who seems to find beautiful melodies at the end of every path" (NPR). The New York Times has noted Goldberg's music for "a feeling of joyous research into the basics of polyphony and collective improvising," and he was named #1 Rising Star Clarinetist in the Downbeat Critics Poll in both 2011 and 2013. In 2015, Ben released Orphic Machine, a song-cycle with lyrics from the "speculative poetics" of Allen Grossman, performed by a nine-piece ensemble to critical acclaim.

Developed in partnership with the Center for New Music.

FREE as part of Culture for Community.

Presented by Contemporary Jewish Museum
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