As an avant-garde artist moving between New York, London and Tokyo, Ono’s work blended efficiency and conceptual art with feminism. Take her notorious “Cut Piece,” during which she provided scissors, and her clothed body, to a sadistic viewers with a single instruction—cut. It’s just as unflinching is Season of Glass, a pop requiem to her slain husband John Lennon.
On this recent launch, they team up with pianist Lawrence Fields, Linda May Han Oh and drummer Joey Baron to play a program of music that is “spacey” both in idea and building. The fourth motion is the longest and edgiest, opening with smeared trombones taking half in beneath strings and winds taking part in an atonal theme, adopted by a clarinet in its low register towards percussion enjoying syncopated figures in 4, then the cello re-enters. Suddenly, the musical fracas stops completely to allow the cello to play a moody …
