Sunday, September 18, 2011

the Wonderful World of "W"

We will wallow in the wildly changing 20th century at this concert. Music was finding many different routes through these strange times. And as the setting for this concert is a pirate show at Petaluma Museum, we will use the motto of taking anything from anyone....musically, of course. From the first half of the century we have the English classical music of William Walton (2 movements from the Piano Quartet) songs of Italian Wolf-Ferrari, the very sparse (as in short....very short!) modernism of Anton Webern and the cabaret style songs of Kurt Weill. All written in the same time period and yet so totally different in mood.
Then to represent the second half of the century, we have music of 2 living composers on the program! We have a piano trio by SSU composer Brian Wilson and a song (Stopping by Woods) by local though unrelated composer Janis Wilson for soprano, clarinet and cello.

So! Join us for a whacky wild ride though the "W"'s!!
Violin, Terrie Baune; Viola, Maria Caswell; Cellos, Judiyaba and Gwyneth Davis; Clarinet, Larry London; Piano, Marilyn Thompson and for the Kurt Weill, Rick Riccardi; and soprano/narrator, Eileen Morris.