PERFORMING “BAGHDAD BURNING SUITE" AND OTHER PIANO SOLOS
THE NUYORICAN IS LOCATED AT
236 EAST 3RD STREET (REV PEDRO PIETRI WAY)
(BETWEEN B AND C AVES)
(F train to 2nd ave.)
212-505-8183
http://www.nuyorican.org/
“Magnes uses rumbling but unostentatious bass lines to create a rolling undercurrent that gives a sinuous flow to her performance . It is a style that is quietly but insistently rhythmic, and when she applies it to as familiar a bossa nova as “The Girl from Ipanema," the piece acquires an unexpected head-long energy. Magnes takes a jazz approach to such music of the Middle East as an Israeli hora and a 14th century Moroccan prayer. A Turkish prayer provides the basis for such an exuberantly driving display of boogie-woogie that one is apt to wonder if this is where the eight-to-the-bar piano style came from"--New York Times
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