Hodges had sarcastically urged readers to “go ask a hippie” — and there was a bona fide hippie in the audience, enjoying the music and soaking up the adulation of the capacity crowd.
In the first movement of “The Cusp of Magic,” the quartet — Harrington and fellow violinist John Sherba, violist Hank Dutt and cellist Sunny Yang — were joined by the pipa virtuoso Wu Man for a stretch of music that began with a simple rhythmic pattern and then expanded to become a shaggy, enveloping groove, with hints of Delta blues and ripe Romanticism. Читать дальше...