Island Consort: Landscape With Birds
$20 suggested donation
Bun-Ching Lam — Bittersweert Music III
Robert Aitken — Plainsong
Janice Giteck — Agrarian Chants
Pēteris Vasks — Selected works
Georg Philipp Telemann — Selected works
Paul Taub, flute
Pēteris Vasks – Selected works
Georg Phillip Telemann – Fantasias
Toru Takemitsu – Selected works
Bun-Ching Lam – Bittersweet Music III for solo bass flute
Robert Aitken – Plainsong
Janice Giteck – Agrarian Chants
Paul Taub, recently retired from 39 years of teaching at Cornish College of the Arts, is perhaps best-known in Seattle as the flutist of the Seattle Chamber Players. This salon concert of mostly 20th-century music from three continents includes works with bass flute, alto flute, and piccolo and covers a gamut of styles, techniques, and influences.
From Europe, Taub will play two pieces by the great Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks, whose transcendent music Taub has been championing since the late 1980's. Two of Georg Phillip Telemann’s set of Fantasias will be represented as the historical “spice” in the program. From Asia, Itinerant by the great Japanese 20th century composer Toru Takemitsu will be balanced by Chinese/American composer Bun-Ching Lam’s Bittersweet Music III for solo bass flute, a piece that Taub commissioned twenty years ago. North America will be represented by Canadian flutist/composer (and Taub’s mentor) Robert Aitken’s Plainsong, with its influence of medieval chant contrasting with the lighthearted Icicle, both for C-flute, and Whidbey Island composer Janice Giteck’s Agrarian Chants, featuring all four of Taub’s instruments in one work!
Due to the venue for this performance, RSVPs are requested and can be made by contacting sweidendorf@whidbey.com.