In Performance: Kate Soper & Erin Lesser
The composer Kate Soper and the flutist Erin Lesser perform “Go Away,” from Ms. Soper’s 2011 piece “Only the Words Themselves Mean What They Say.”
By Erik Piepenburg and Erik Braund on Publish Date December 8, 2014.There is a rich tradition of music for soprano and flute, a combination that conjures up thoughts of pieces like the delicate “Caro nome” from Verdi’s “Rigoletto” or the unhinged mad scene in Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor.” But the composer and performer Kate Soper does something utterly different with the pairing in “Go Away,” a virtuosic piece she wrote for herself and the flutist Erin Lesser, to a text by Lydia Davis. Ms. Soper and Ms. Lesser are members of the Wet Ink Ensemble, a new music group that will perform Dec. 15 at St. Peter’s Church, at 346 West 20th Street. Here they are performing “Go Away,” from Ms. Soper’s 2011 limit-stretching piece “Only the Words Themselves Mean What They Say.”
Recent classical music videos in this series include performances by the pianists Lang Lang and Frederic Chiu.
Coming soon: a song from Sting and Rachel Tucker of the musical “The Last Ship,” and a monologue from James Earl Jones of the Broadway revival of the comedy “You Can’t Take It With You.”