Perfectly Un-Matched
If you had been asked to put together two musicians for a freewheeling exploration of time, texture, and space, flutist Dana Reilly and drummer Rick DiZenzo would probably not have been the two who leapt to mind. The classically trained Reilly, a Denver native with a taste for
J. S. Bach and Frank Martin, had been steeped in the tradition of rigorous etudes and the
autocracy of sheet music. DiZenzo, a Jersey boy who prefers Frank Zappa, had pounded his drum kit into submission at CBGB’s, an iconic New York rock club.
They both, however, harbored a secret desire to play their own music without regard to current trends. So when their paths crossed in a flute ensemble over three years ago, they made a break for it and formed Consort Un-Caged. Sunday night, as part of The Roost series, curated by Mark Weaver, they’ll present Altered Time, a collection of—to quote their promo material—“original compositions that refuse to be categorized, boxed-in . . . or caged.”