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The Arts Intel Report

A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

PRISM Quartet and Arturo O'Farrill: Mending Wall

March 23, 2020
509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Note to Robert Frost: The list of entities that don’t love a wall can now be expanded to include Afro-Cuban jazz master Arturo O’Farrill, whose piece in this “fully staged” concert is called Something to declare? (yeah, fuck your wall). It joins works by Martin Bresnick, George Lewis, and Juri Seo—all “exploring the meaning of walls in our world”—interpreted by this crack saxophone quartet, dauntless soprano Tony Arnold, and (in his own work) O’Farrill at the piano. —E.E.