“On Saturday, at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Sounds Modern [concert series] spun off a program complementing the museum’s current show of mixed-media works by artist Mark Bradford,” writes Tim Giovanni in Monday’s (10/20) Dallas Morning News. “The largest portion of the concert was devoted to Hair Piece (2020). Created by the Denton-based feminist music ensemble Bitches Set Traps, this improvisation focused on hair-related items and themes. Cellist Newton and flutist Elizabeth McNutt passed snippets from Debussy’s The Girl with the Flaxen Hair between themselves, vocalist Sarah Ruth Alexander scraped a baby-blue hair pick along the strings of a dulcimer (a type of zither)…. It remained whimsically engaging…. Voices of Change [contemporary classical series] followed on Sunday at Southern Methodist University’s Caruth Auditorium with three works written relatively early in each composer’s career. [In] Dallas-based Jonathan Cziner’s … Violin Sonata No. 2 … Voices of Change artistic director and violinist Maria Schleuning and pianist Liudmila Georgievskaya handled the difficulties of the score with aplomb.” Also on the program were Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Piano Quintet in C minor and Charles Ives’s Variations on America, in which organist Bradley Welch “easily dispatched the quick pedal work, building to a bone-shaking conclusion.”
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