ISSUE Project Room closes its 2025 season with Light of Day, a new work-in-progress by cellist and co-founder of the Books, Paul de Jong, presented with longtime friend and collaborator Beth Daunis.
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Preview: Paul de Jong with Beth Daunis
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201
ISSUE Members, press, and special guests are invited to an exclusive artist talk and preview of Light of Day, a new work-in-progress by Paul de Jong and Beth Daunis.
Paul de Jong with Beth Daunis
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201
ISSUE Project Room closes its 2025 season with Light of Day, a new work-in-progress by cellist and co-founder of the Books, Paul de Jong, presented with longtime friend and collaborator Beth Daunis.
Paul de Jong
Paul de Jong, cellist and co-founder of celebrated experimental duo the Books, performs his signature emotional acrobatics with the aid of cellos, or “what used to be cellos,” in addition to a bottomless library of exotic americana, absurdist sound and video snippets, mismatched costumes and hats, fake teeth and moustaches -- all purposefully over-formalized and under-rehearsed.
Paul de Jong, cellist and co-founder of celebrated experimental duo the Books, and composer and violist Jessica Pavone’s String Ensemble each present new work -- spanning de Jong’s distinctly hybrid and emotionally-driven cello music, to Pavone’s uniquely physical compositions for strings.