ELOQUENCE IN AFTERMATH
In this age of distress, disease and discord, how welcome to encounter a composer both mellow and inventive. He was an innovator and modernist, not in harmonies, but rather in building strangely compatible pairings of live and canned sounds. The posthumous tribute by SF Performances provided an all-Ingram Marshall concert combining live musicians with electronic input (or, as he’d have called it, with tape). The career of Marshall (1942-2022) the sometime mystic has spilled over both coasts with commitments…