A premiere music video from Chordless provides a futuristic model for classical music. The results are impressive, illuminating the nuanced colors of LeMesh’s voice and capturing the reverberant brightness and softness of Chapman’s hand-strummed piano strings.
— San Francisco Classical Voice
The duo plans to release its first music video, a short and heartbreakingly beautiful vignette by filmmaker Joseph Dwyer set to a 1979 song by George Crumb. “The Night in Silence Under Many a Star,” to words by Whitman, has a poignant simplicity that the eloquence of the video — filmed in Marin before the pandemic broke — only underscores.
— San Francisco Chronicle
Music videos for works like Apparition are comparably rare, and often a bit baffling even to fans of the music, and artists are making sense of their reasons for putting out digital content when, pre-pandemic, they had no real plans to do so. But Chordless has created an intriguing piece of art with this Crumb video, and it’ll be a neat experience to view it, and then have an immediate face-to-face (or screen-to-screen) with the folks who made it.
— Schmopera
The vocal/piano duo will be premiering a music video of George Crumb’s The Night in Silence Under Many a Star. I’ve seen a short preview and I’m intrigued...
— Opera Ramblings