David Krakauer & Kathleen Tagg:
Intimate Livestreamed Concerts
David Krakauer and Kathleen Tagg bring their audiences INTIMATE HOUSE CONCERTS live-streamed from the Upper West Side in Manhattan. Presented with PROFESSIONAL QUALITY AUDIO FEED and MULTI-CAMERA SHOOT, the artists create an INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE by taking questions and comments from the audience in real-time. The concerts feature acoustic versions of repertoire from their electro-acoustic album, BREATH & HAMMER, as well as some of their favorite music and new arrangements.
What will you hear? A combination of fully notated and improvised music in highly personal arrangements. Their influences are as diverse as classical music, Eastern European klezmer, jazz, Southern African music, Brazilian forró music and more. It is at once highly virtuosic and yet very intimate, personal and expressive.
Concerts are typically 75-80 minutes with no intermission with album signing and meet and greet following the performance.
WHAT CONCERT ATTENDEES HAVE TO SAY:
"In these stressful times when live concerts are no longer an option, David Krakauer and Kathleen Tagg have hit upon a remarkably satisfying alternative. Major organizations from Carnegie Hall to the New York Philharmonic have been putting live concerts on line, which naturally is a major boon to us music-starved home-aloners. David and Kathleen, however, went much further. At the streamed event that I watched with great delight, David and Kathleen not only provided magnificent performances, but added informal comments on the pieces and spoke informally about their approach to various composers. Even the basic photography provided unique perspectives, from closeups of David to Kathleen's fascinating manipulation of a prepared piano, as seen from the rear of the instrument. This, in other words, was not merely a substitute for something, but a probing and impactful concept that combined great artistry with personal insights. In that sense, it was an event far transcending the experience an audience could take away from a live recital. "
–Robert Sherman, former Program Director of WQXR and longtime music critic & columnist for The New York Times
“What a joy and a privilege to attend virtually David and Kathy’s May 10 concert! I kept thinking throughout — from Kinan Azmeh’s November 22 to David’s own Synagogue Wail — that this music sounds as if it has always existed and always will. In this perilous time, this luminous duo gives us the crucial gift of perspective through the redemptive, timeless beauty of music.”
–Paul Moravec, composer & winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Music