Nobody in the music world has ever said that October was a calm month. It has already been a wild and fun month, completely with several performances of Jekyll and Hyde at the White Plains Performing Arts Center (there are four more shows next weekend).
Wednesday kicks off the start of my recital blitz! I will starting off the Postcards Tour with a the first of several solo recitals at the Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College, CUNY. This faculty recital will feature the works of: Donna Doyle; A. Leilahua Lanzilotti; Anthony R. Green; LJ White; Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber; Günter Raphael; and World Premieres by Dennis Báthory-Kitsz and Lev “Ljova” Zhurbin. Admission to the concert is free, and you can also livestream it on YouTube.
I am calling it the Postcards Tour, because several of the works on this program are relatively short, with only one or two movements. Many of these works evoke different times and places– for example: A. Leilahua Lanzilotti’s ko‘u inoa, is based upon the anthem: Hawai’i Aloha. Dennis Báthory-Kitsz’s The Lower Tide Effect, which was written for me last month, evokes climate change putting strains on places such as Vermont that are normally perceived as idyllic.
After this week, I will have a few other fun recitals coming up, including a lecture recital in Boston; two recitals in Iowa; a workshop at the NYSCAME Suffolk Symposium; and a recital in Cambridge, MA. More details to follow soon…
Gregory K. Williams 