Checkpoint KBK: “an unforgettable performance”
Following a captivating performance at Dallas’ Nasher Sculpture Center, Checkpoint KBK - the collaboration between extraordinary performers violinist-vocalist Iva Bittová, clarinetist David Krakauer, and accordionist Merima Ključo - is receiving glowing responses from audience members and critics.
Writes Gregory Sullivan Isaacs for Dallas’ Theater Jones:
“When a concert takes you suddenly to unknown regions and keeps you there, it can be difficult to write about the experience. The Friday’s Soundings concert at the Nasher Sculpture Center was just such a concert. […] There was a string quartet on the stage. A singer would enter down the side aisle, singing in an unrecognizable language. A clarinetist would wander in. An accordion player appeared. They all took turns playing and it was so dark that the program was useless as a road map through the modernist and vaguely Hebraic-Middle Eastern-klezmer influenced musical landscape. It was wonderful to be a bewildered visitor in a different world.”
