With Salt, the ever adventurous Maya Beiser turns her attention to the unnamed biblical figure of Lot’s wife, in the cellist’s eyes “a symbol of all the women who have been punished for remembering, for feeling too much, for refusing to move on … A woman who dared to turn around.” As recounted in “Genesis,” when angels instructed Lot and his family to flee Sodom, his wife “looked back, and she became a pillar of salt” (19:26). While some interpret the event as retribution for the choosing of worldly life over salvation, the greater meaning for Beiser lies in the turning to look, the “instinctual, human act of looking back at what you love, even as it’s being destroyed.”
Issued on the cellist’s Islandia Music Records label, Salt explores such ideas through works…

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