PRISM Quartet and Craig Taborn, 9/11 Philly, 9/13 Brooklyn - Premiere of Taborn's "Three Animal Riddles"

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PRISM Quartet and Craig Taborn – Sept. 11 Philly, Sept. 13 Brooklyn

By: . August 30, 2026. Posted under:

The ever-adventurous PRISM Quartet joins forces with the composer/pianist and MacArthur Fellow Craig Taborn in a program featuring the world premiere of Taborn’s Three Animal Riddles. Taborn writes, “Three Animal Riddles is a work in three movements—Two Fish, Red Sulfur Birds, and Her Basilisk—in which improvisatory piano, in dialogue with a saxophone quartet, encounters metaphors of decomposition, transformation, and synthesis. Alchemical animal riddles, Duke Ellington, and Cecil Taylor inspired this piece, which will take on a new final form with each performance.” The program also includes work from PRISM Quartet’s ongoing Heritage/Evolution project by Greg Osby, Melissa Aldana, John Coltrane, and Chris ...

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