A lovely Music Matters interview with Tyshawn Sorey, although we only get to hear a small excerpt from his Monochromatic Light (Afterlife) – a tiny bit more in the BBC News report. The whole feature is worth listening to (from 22:35) but the focus on his piece starts from 33:05:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0018225 Tom Service talks to drummer, conductor and composer Tyshawn Sorey. A musician very much in demand across both classical and jazz circles, Tyshawn discusses his continuing mission to break down boundaries in music and his recent piece ‘Monochromatic Light’, written for the 50th anniversary of Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas, for which he took inspiration not just from the artwork of Mark Rothko, but the piece Morton Feldman wrote for the opening of the space in 1971. [...]
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-61415333 (3 mins.)
