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The Arts Intel Report

Sofia Rei and J. C. Maillard: Keter

September 21, 2019
1 Bennett Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States

Keeping track of the works of John Zorn—composer, impresario, and genius loci of New York’s downtown music scene—is like counting the drops from a geyser, and trying to remember each drop’s esoteric title. Keter, named for the highest of the kabbalistic Sephirot, here receives a highly personal and quite ravishing interpretation from Argentinian singer Sofia Rei and French-Guadaloupean multi-instrumentalist J. C. Maillard. —E.E.