Abstract Art With A Caterpillar, A Jabberwocky And A Bass Clarinet
A new SDMA+ Art of Elan collaborative concert pairs abstract photography with new contemporary compositions for bass clarinet — inspired by the fantastical works of Lewis Carroll.

Credit: Courtesy of Art of Elan
Above: Composer Andrea Isabel González wrote a new work and accompanying video for the SDMA+ Art of Elan collaboration, “Abstraction and Allegory,” which goes live Feb. 19, 2021.
Maybe there’s an opening line of a joke here: A bass clarinet, a nonsense monster and a caterpillar walked into an art museum…
To bass clarinetist Joshua Rubin, it works. Rubin is part of the “Abstraction and