For many of today’s jazz listeners, it is difficult to define the connection between the music and what it expresses—if anything definite is being expressed at all. What is the music about? There is certainly an abundance of beauty in abstract improvisation, yet no matter how abstract, every solo we hear and every song remains a story that takes us somewhere within our minds, our past, and becomes a part of the ever-growing narrative of our lives. Stories play an important role in communicating morality, preserving history, enlightening, and entertaining.
In an effort to bring meaning into modern jazz music, 26-year-old saxophonist Remy Le Boeuf draws on a work by one of the 20th century’s most celebrated writers, Franz Kafka. His new piece, “A Dream: The Musical Imagination of Franz Kafka,” focuses on the structural and narrative power of Kafka's short story, “A Dream," in order to evoke a blurry dreamscape of enchantment, inevitability, and one’s struggle with self-perception.
Remy Le Boeuf was born in Santa Cruz, California, and in 2004 he moved to New York City where he and his twin brother,
In an effort to bring meaning into modern jazz music, 26-year-old saxophonist Remy Le Boeuf draws on a work by one of the 20th century’s most celebrated writers, Franz Kafka. His new piece, “A Dream: The Musical Imagination of Franz Kafka,” focuses on the structural and narrative power of Kafka's short story, “A Dream," in order to evoke a blurry dreamscape of enchantment, inevitability, and one’s struggle with self-perception.
Remy Le Boeuf was born in Santa Cruz, California, and in 2004 he moved to New York City where he and his twin brother,
Pascal Le Boeuf
composer / conductorb.1986
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