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I went out last night.
With tickets and a program, and musicians who were paid.
And it was good.
And so a sensitively programmed, lovingly produced, meticulously safe two-hour concert came as an exhilarating shock.
The concert, titled To America, wasnt escapist or frivolous, but it wasnt stridently topical either.
Instead it honored Black lives and dark moods with a light touch.
Ousley used both distant and recent music to give substance to that feeling.
Music, landscape, and sepulchral architecture merged.
A string quartet inside the catacombs played the moving, mournful Adagio from George WalkersString Quartet No.
Vocal cords and violin strings protested the clammy conditions.
But the cumulative experience was bewitching.
Its too late now.
To America is a precious deposit to that account.
