Jazz Articles about Eve Beuvens

Eve Beuvens: Lysis

by Ian Patterson
May 19, 2025

It is often said that music begins when poetry ends. But it might be more accurate to suggest that each expresses something the other cannot. For Belgian pianist Eve Beuvens the boundaries between poetry and music are amorphous--each inspiring the other. With Lysis--a biological term describing the breakdown of a cell membrane--music and words bleed into each other. Two poems by Robert Frost, and one each by Emily Dickinson, Dorothy Parker and Edna St. Vincent Millay, provide the starting points ...