SOLO

Zeena Parkins appears at The Stone in a solo performance, billed simply as SOLO, playing both acoustic and electric harps. The listing gives no further program notes, guests, or special occasion, so the focus is on her unaccompanied set and the contrasting instruments named for the night. It takes place in The Stone’s glass-walled theatre at The New School, where the room is arranged for close, attentive listening and the music is presented without food service or other distractions.

The available material identifies Parkins as the evening’s performer and specifies her acoustic and electric harps, but supplies no biographical background, place of origin, past collaborators, recordings, or critical notices. There is therefore no supported account here of how she developed her work or of what writers have said about it. What the event information does establish is a solo presentation, rather than a band lineup, with the two types of harp defining the instrumentation.