Sing, Choirs of Angels! honors choral music’s essential role in bringing communities together during this season of celebration. When young voices join each other in song, they create an angelic call to love and cherish one another.
The Voice of the Piano presents six diverse works by American women composers from the lush early 20th century sounds of Amy Beach’s Improvisations and the angular modern Sonata by Louise Talma, to Miriam Gideon’s Impressionistic and atonal Sonata and the showcase toccata by Joan Tower, Ivory and Ebony. Frances Brouwer’s two pieces, Flight and Fear of the Deep, are short expressive works by a young composer still in college, and The Caryatids is a lyric and powerful work by renowned California composer Alexis Alrich.
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Presented in collaboration with Lieder Alive!, and featuring mezzo-soprano Kindra Scharich, the Festival Finale comes full circle with a special program of musical cycles that mirror those in nature, joining the glory of the voice with the wonders of the piano.
Circadian String Quartet, founded in 2013 to perform classical and contemporary repertoire of folkloric or cultural significance, are joined by pianist Amy Zanrosso in two-day festival of Piano Quintets by Dvořák, Stravinsky/Ryther, Schumann and Shostakovich.
How does a jazz pianist create a unique arrangement of a standard? Why do notation and improvisation seem like such separate worlds? How does an experimental bassist compose? We’ll explore these questions and more in this new series, moderated by Sarah Cahill, with guest artists demonstrating and revealing the secret processes behind their music.
