It’s Halloween time, and the haunting season is here. To go along with the mood, on October 16 at the historic Kingston mansion-cum-vacation rental At Home on the Hudson will be an eerily appropriate for “Transylvanian Dance,” a live performance by pianist Lucian Ban, violist Mat Maneri, and poet Denver Butson.
The chamber jazz-with-poetry program pairs Butson’s spoken word element with music from of works from Transylvanian Dance Ban and Maneri’s second duo album for the seminal ECM Records label. The album finds Romanian pianist Ban and American violist Maneri following the trail of Hungarian composer Bela Bartok, who collected and transcribed numerous pieces of Transylvanian folk music in the early 20th century.
The album was recorded live in Timisoara, Romania, in 2022. Brooklyn poet Denver Butson has published four books of poetry: Triptych (1999), Mechanical Birds (2001), Illegible Address (2004) and The Sum of Uncountable Things (2015).
At Home on the Hudson will host “Transylvanian Dance” featuring Lucian Ban, Mat Maneri, and Denver Butson on October 16 at 8pm. For ticket pricing and information email athome11215@gmail.com.
This article appears in October 2024.
