Sarah Cahill – No Ordinary Light – Friday, January 23 at 8 pm
Sarah Cahill – No Ordinary Light – Friday, January 23 at 8 pm
Sarah Cahill introduces a new project combining classical and new compositions on the theme of homage and loss, featuring music by Maurice Ravel, Robert Helps, Lou Harrison, Zenobia Powell Perry, Samuel Adams, Danny Clay, and Maggi Payne. The title comes from Jawaharalal Nehru’s eulogy after the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi: “The light has gone out, I said, and yet I was wrong. For the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light.”
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No Ordinary Light
Sarah Cahill, piano
Maurice Ravel Tombeau de Couperin
Samuel Adams Prelude: Hammer the Sky Bright
Robert Helps Hommage a Fauré
Zenobia Powell Perry Homage to William Dawson
Lou Harrison Fugue to David Tudor and Hommage à Milhaud
Maggie Payne Holding Pattern
Danny Clay Circle Songs
Sarah Cahill introduces a new project combining classical and new compositions on the theme of homage and loss, featuring music by Maurice Ravel, Robert Helps, Lou Harrison, Zenobia Powell Perry, Samuel Adams, Danny Clay, and Maggi Payne. The title comes from Jawaharalal Nehru’s eulogy after the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi: “The light has gone out, I said, and yet I was wrong. For the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light.”
“As this year comes to a close, I’ve been thinking a lot about loss, with the deaths of a few close friends, and also the ongoing profound loss we feel collectively under the current regime in this country,” says Cahill. “Music, as always, brings us together, and these works resonate with celebration, grief, and homage.”
Sarah Cahill, hailed as “a sterling pianist and an intrepid illuminator of the classical avant-garde” by The New York Times, has commissioned and premiered over seventy compositions for solo piano. Composers who have dedicated works to Cahill include John Adams, Terry Riley, Frederic Rzewski, Pauline Oliveros, Julia Wolfe, Roscoe Mitchell, Annea Lockwood, and Ingram Marshall. She was named a 2018 Champion of New Music, awarded by the American Composers Forum (ACF) (in a ceremony at Old First Concerts). This year, Sarah will be performing at the National Gallery, the University of Washington, MIT, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Four Seasons Arts, and San Francisco Performances. She will also premiere Viet Cuong’s new piano concerto with the California Symphony. Recording projects include Arlene Sierra’s complete Birds and Insects for the Bridge label, and an album of Lou Harrison’s piano music, including unpublished works, for Other Minds. Sarah’s latest two albums, The Future is Female, Vol. 1, 2, & 3 were released last year on First Hand Records. Sarah’s radio show, Revolutions Per Minute, can be heard every Sunday evening from 6 to 8 pm on KALW, 91.7 FM in San Francisco. She is on the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory and is a regular pre-concert speaker with the San Francisco Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.