Event Details
National Sawdust and Sarah Williams present a live performance of Daniela Mack’s debut solo album SUR with bandoneonist JP Jofre and his quintet. SUR features and is heavily inspired by the music of Astor Piazzolla. Argentine-American mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack first heard Piazzolla from the back seat of her father’s car, and the intensity, melancholy, and freedom of that sound never left her. Now an artist with an international opera career, she returns to the music to reconnect with her identity and to ask what Piazzolla can mean today in the voice of a contemporary classical singer.
The program will pair Mack’s emotional mezzo-soprano with the rhythmic, improvisatory language of tango nuevo in Jofre’s arrangements for bandoneon, violin, cello, piano, and double bass. The evening features songs from the album including “Vuelvo al Sur,” “Balada para un loco,” and “Oblivion.”