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 AFTER EVERYTHING INVITES YOU
TO THE
SECOND OF FOUR CONCERTS
IN THEIR NEW PERFORMANCE SEASON 
HELLO & THANK YOU

for joining us at our season opening performance last month. It was such a pleasure to  work with Evan Kahn, Lily Kaye Sevier
and all of the other talented musicians who joined us–

Mary Artmann, Kathryn Bates, Alden Cohen, Gabriel Beistline,
Joanne De Mars, Matthew Linaman, Douglas Machiz,
Ken Miller, Michael Minor, Bridget Pasker, Brett Phillips
Natalie Raney, Vanessa Ruotolo, Kevin Yu

So much amazing music-making! I think I fell most deeply in love with the John Luther Adams pieces, Canticles of the Sky.
It is just one of those pieces which is all the more remarkable
when experienced in a live performance. I had a lot of fun being in one of the best seats in the house!
I hope you as wonderful a time as I did!

Our next concert, the second of four, will occur on

8PM THURSDAY
FEBRUARY
21


The Back Room

1984 Bonita Ave
Berkeley
94704

 

This next concert will be smaller, more intimate, and will feature musicians Preben Antonsen, Evan Kahn, and Jessie Nucho performing beautiful and heart-wrenching trios for Cello, Flute, and Piano.

The genesis for this show began with
George Crumb’s Vox Balaenae. In the 60s and 70s, George Crumb took the world by storm, by creating and codifying entirely new ways of playing instruments. Unfamiliar sounds, put together in a way which suggested they’d always been meant to be heard together.  Singing into the flute, placing a glass rod on the piano strings, using a paper clip to play a cello– these are just some of the innovative techniques Crumb uses. But beneath all of that, what is the story he tells?
The beauty of nature told through
The Voice of the Whale.

Chen Yi’s music is deeply rooted in her Chinese heritage. The first woman to graduate with a degree in composition in China, she frequently incorporates traditional Chinese instruments and techniques into her music.  Her piece, Night Thoughts exists in this beautiful in-between, drawing upon harmonies from her culture and techniques from her classical education.  Sparse in many ways, this piece always reminds me of Bartok’s nocturnal works, or the restlessness that comes from lying in bed, nervous and half-awake.
 

Ravel’s Sonatine is the classic of the evening. Preben and I have bonded a lot over this solo piano work. Deceptively simple, it offers many beautiful moments; a piece that holds your hand and gives you a warm hug. So many times, we emailed and texted back and forth about a measure in this piece, about our love for it.
It will be thrilling to hear Preben perform this work.


Our most unusual offering on the program of the upcoming concert is Cendres by Kaija Saariaho.  She explores bringing three very different instruments “each of which has its unique character and palette of colors…. as close together as possible in all ways
 (pitch, rhythm, dynamics, articulation, color, etc.)”
and then slamming them just as far apart. In this piece,
you will hear a lot of piano emulating flute and flute emulating cello. I particularly love those moments when
Saariaho fools you into thinking you are hearing one instrument, then your mind experiences a slightly jarring shift as you realize that part of the sound you thought was a flute is actually a cello. She is a true master of color and you will see colors that you have never seen before.

Looking forward
to this concert &
looking forward
to seeing you
there! See you in
The Back Room
Matthew Cmiel

 
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