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Henneman String Quartet

June 30

The Netherlands' pre-eminent modern string quartet, led by composer/violist Ig Henneman, offers captivatingly spatial music whose diverse inspirations include medieval church music, jazz and swing. Combining elegant composition with a rigorous improvisational discipline, this freewheeling quartet creates daringly elegant music that never fails to move its audience. With Mary Oliver violin/viola, Tristan Honsinger cello, and Wilbert de Joode bass.

Biggi Vinkeloe Trio

Biggi Vinkeloe - alto saxophone, flute
Barre Phillips - bass
Peeter Uuskyla - drums

June 26

"...Most of the pieces are two or three minute miniatures, concentrated and elliptical. Vinkeloe has a soft tone and a slightly mournful, lyrical bent. Phillips is lively throughout, resonating with ideas of appealing simplicity. Uuskyla is a responsive and tuneful drummer, well up to the surprises Phillips is apt to throw out. Stop-start dynamics vie with Vinkeloe's attraction to lengthier statement - a tight three-way performance." - Will Montgomery (from the Wire August 98) 

before one's eyes

Merrell Eve Gerber, Margaret Lawther, and Tessa Windt

June 4-26 

In questioning the relationship between seeing and the work of art, a space for reflection opens where the mind of the artist and the mind of the viewer can meet. The site of this meeting is the concern of these three diverse artists, who use different means to create a sense of space, a gap in our "normal," culturally conditioned view. "The works of photographer Margaret Lawther and sculptors Merrell Eve Gerber and Tessa Windt were not curated according to any thematic or stylistic similarities. This lack of interpretive direction offers viewers the opportunity to take an active, creative role in building relationships both with and between each piece. before one's eyes conjures a place inside each of us where we can understand one of the important roles that art plays in this society, that of magician."