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Helen Sung Quartet Livestream at Scullers Jazz Club

Courtesy of Kim Gumbel | Posted on December 10, 2020

Where

Scullers Jazz Club
400 Soldiers Field Road
Boston, MA
Map
617-562-4111

Helen Sung Quartet Livestream at Scullers Jazz Club

When

Fri, December 18, 2020
7:30 pm

Musicians

John Ellis
saxophone, tenor
Samuel Torres
percussion

About

Streaming live via the Scullers Jazz Facebook page, Sung will premiere a new piece composed in isolation. Temporality, Helen Sung’s Jazz Coalition Covid Commission Fund composition, is an extended work expressing her experience of time during the ongoing Covid-19 lockdown. “Even though I know about the theory of relativity and am an avid science fiction fan, I still think of time as a mainly linear experience,” Sung says. “However, this period of continued solitude and isolation transformed that notion for me. Time became elastic - sometimes it felt like a closed loop, where each day was indistinguishable from the next, making it seem like time had stopped, but then a month seemed to pass by in a single day!” ...

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