via New York Times
By Steve Smith
Published: April 6, 2010
When presenting concerts devoted to contemporary music in a variety of styles, an overarching theme can provide context. You regularly encounter programs bundled according to historical period, ties to other art forms or more fanciful notions. For this year’s Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival, an annual series presented by the composer and conductor Victoria Bond, “Music & Health: Can Music Heal?” is the banner notion.
But during the first concert in the series, on Monday night in the Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space, that theme seemed less concerned with the pieces performed than with a mission involving music in general. Each event in the four-concert series is linked to a medical organization that is to receive 50 percent of the evening’s ticket proceeds. Miles of Hope Breast Cancer Foundation was Monday’s beneficiary; CancerCare, the Integrative Medicine Services at Sloan-Kettering Memorial Cancer Center and Young Survival Coalition will follow.
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