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Cascadia Composers present Bang on a Canon – twice this Saturday

by on January 19, 2012

Tomas Svoboda

It’ll be “Keyboards Gone Wild” this Saturday (January 21) when 14 pianists team up to play the world premiere of Tomas Svoboda’s “Two Canons for Fourteen Pianos” at Sherman Clay Pianos (131 NW 13th Avenue) . The concert, sponsored by Cascadia Composers will also feature the world premiere of Gary Noland’s “Abschied.” Note that there are two performances of this concert (3 pm and 7 pm) and that the program for each varies slightly.

Here’s the lineup of works and workers involved in the program:

Gary Noland         ABSCHIED* Op. 86 (2006)
World Premiere
Evan Kuhlmann, bassoon
Diane Chaplin, cello
Kaori Katayama Noland, piano

* Performed at 3 p.m. only

Dan Brugh         FLUTE SONATA
Celine Thackston, flute

Jan Mittelstaedt     MASKS*
Rhonda Ringering, piano

*Performed at 3 p.m. only

Jan Mittelstaedt    LINKS*
Celine Thackston, flute
Rhonda Ringering, piano

*Performed at 7 p.m. only

Tomas Svoboda         DISCERNMENT OF TIME
Tomas Svoboda, solo Gong

Dan Senn         MICRO DRAMATIC SONGS from PRAGUE II
The Sun Wrinkled Lady
The Tram Spider
The Never Close
Nancy Wood, soprano
Paul Safar, piano

INTERMISSION

Greg Steinke         INQUIETUDE
Celine Thackston, flute

Gary Noland         FOUR HEINE LIEDER, Op. 19 (1990)
1. Aus meinen Thränen spriessen
2. Im wunderschönen Monat Mai
3. Und wüssten’s die Blumen…
4. Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam
Erin Walker, soprano
Kaori Katayama Noland, piano

Tomas Svoboda   TWO CANONS for FOURTEEN PIANOS
1. Canon with Multi Themes
2. Canon for Unlimited Voices
David Bernstein, piano
Dan Brugh, piano
Harold Gray, piano
Dana Green, piano
Matt Grossman, piano
Mary Kogen, piano
Lisa Marsh, piano
Becca Schultz, piano
Cynthia Stillman-Gerdes, piano
Mary Sutton, piano
Gaye Thomas, piano
Grace Waites, piano
Jeff Winslow, piano
Jennifer Wright, piano


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James Bash writes articles for a variety of publications, including magazines such as Opera America, Open Spaces, Opera, MUSO, International Arts Manager, American Record Guide, Symphony, Opera Canada, and PSU Magazine. The newspapers include Crosscut, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Oregonian, The Columbian, The Portland Tribune, The Register-Guard, and Willamette Week. James has also written a number of articles for the Oregon Arts Commission and contributed articles to the 2nd edition of the Grove Dictionary of American Music. James was a fellow to the 2008 NEA Journalism Institute for Classical Music and Opera. He is a member of the Music Critics Association of North America (mcana.org) and lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, Kathy.