Music Meets Modernism

Award-winning bassist/composer Joël Dilley and singer/songwriter pianist Bett Butler frequently explore visual art for inspiration, as evidenced by Dilley’s recent album Mandala Meditation Series: Monet’s Garden and Butler’s ode to Gabriele Münter, “For Gabriele.” In “Music Meets Modernism,” the couple will present an in-gallery concert of chamber jazz with drummer Johnathan Alexander and saxophonist Rene Saenz, performing their original music with improvisation in response to the current exhibit From Monet to Matisse: A Century of French Moderns.