Wayward Music Series: The Living (Part 2) – Contemporary Music for Solo Piano
$5-$15 donation
Ian Venables — The Stourhead Follies Op. 4
Frederic Rzewski / Stephen Sondheim — I'm Still Here
Ken Benshoof — Spindrift
John Joubert — Lyric Fantasy on Themes from 'Jane Eyre' Op. 144
Eric McElroy, piano
Colleen McElroy, piccolo
Howard Skempton – Images
Ian Venables – The Stourhead Follies, Op. 4
Stephen Sondheim/Frederic Rzewski – I’m Still Here
Ken Benshoof – Spindrift
John Joubert – Lyric Fantasy on Themes from Jane Eyre, Op. 144 (American premiere)
This piano recital celebrates the diversity of music in our time with works by celebrated British and American composers. It ranges in style from neo-romanticism to jazz-classical fusion, and in inspiration from the English countryside to the shores of the Pacific. The recital also commemorates the birthdays of Howard Skempton (70) and Frederic Rzewski (80). The piano is joined by piccolo for the performance of a dazzling piece by Seattle-based composer Ken Benshoof. The program concludes with the American premiere of a piano fantasy by John Joubert based on Jane Eyre, the composer’s internationally acclaimed opera.
Eric McElroy is an American composer-pianist based in England at the University of Oxford. Colleen McElroy plays flute/piccolo with the Spokane Symphony and Boise Philharmonic and teaches privately in Seattle.
About Wayward Music Series
Each month, Nonsequitur and a community of like-minded organizations and artists present 10 concerts of adventurous and experimental music in the gorgeous Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center: contemporary/post-classical composition, free improvisation and the outer limits of jazz, electronic/electroacoustic music, new instruments, phonography, sound art, and other innovative musics.
https://www.waywardmusic.org/