Defiant Life

Virtuoso composer-performers Vijay Iyer (piano, Rhodes, electronics) and Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet) present Defiant Life, their latest collaboration “shaped by [their] ongoing sorrow and outrage over the past year’s cruelties, but also by [their] faith in human possibility.” Their hourlong performance stages a passionate musical conversation centered around mortality, impermanence, and divinity, showing a rigorous and caring musical collaboration which expresses a deep human connection “spanning generations and nurtured over decades.”