The Jewish Museum will be presenting a concert titled “Bang on a Can: Beauty is Power” featuring cello player Maya Beiser. The concert is tied to the Museum’s exhibition, Helena Rubinstein: Beauty is Power, the first exhibition about the legendary cosmetics entrepreneur and trendsetting art collector.
Beiser’s has been referred to as the “cello goddess” by the New Yorker, and her concert will feature beautiful music by powerful women. Beiser’s 2011 TEDtalk has been watched by close to one million people and translated to 32 languages. In 2013, she was a featured guest alongside Yoko Ono, Marina Abramović, and Isabella Rossellini at ICASTICA, a festival celebrating women working in artistic fields in Arezzo, Italy. Her performance at the Jewish Museum will include O Virtus Sapientiae by Hildegard von Bingen, Summertime by Janis Joplin, the U.S. premiere of Rest These Hands by Anna Clyne, Byzantine Chant arranged by Aleksandra Vrebalov, Maya’s own arrangement of Hide and Seek by Imogen Heap, and an homage performance of Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece, with music from Far-Off Country by Eve Beglarian.
“In my art, I think a lot about beauty. For me, performing music is the act of peeling through layers of beauty, revealing its many faces. Today, women have seized the commerce of beauty; most fashion magazines are spearheaded by powerful women. But throughout the millennia, the art of music – the ultimate form of beauty – has been monopolized by men,” says Beiser.
“Bang on Can: Beauty is Power” is the third concert of the Jewish museum and Bang on a Can’s partnership to produce a series of dynamic musical performances from June 2014 to May 2015 which are all inspired by the museums diverse exhibitions.
The show will be on January 29 at 7:30 p.m.
To purchase tickets, call 212-423-3337. Or buy them online here.
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