The Crumb Madrigals Project

Former Yellow Barn Ensemble-in-Residence Due East (Greg Beyer, percussion, and Erin Lesser, flutes) joins forces with Duo Borealis (Evan Primo, bassist/composer, and Mary Bonhag, soprano) and harpist Jacqui Kerrod to spend a week in residence at Yellow Barn to study the George Crumb masterwork, Madrigals Books I-IV. These five musicians will take the time to create, reflect upon and refine a memorized and semi-theatrical interpretation of this half-hour long cycle, written in the 1965 (Books I and II) and 1969 (Books III and IV).
In this now famous series of works, Crumb sets fragments of beautiful poetry by the Spanish surrealist, Federico Garc