Sonic Harvest 19

Presented by Sonic Harvest

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Once again we bring you a stunning program of new compositions from within your community—vocal, instrumental and even operatic works, nearly all premiere performances:

  • Ann Callaway: Elizabethan Lyrics
    Gallant Invention
    Lacking my love
    They flee from me
    Richard Mix, bass, Ann Callaway, piano
  • Allen Shearer: Thinking Thoughts
    Nadya Tichman, violin, Keisuke Nakagoshi, piano
  • Peter Josheff: Images from the Past
    1 Mating calls
    2 A gray ocean
    3 Restless
    4 Gadding about
    5 Walking downhill
    6 Bell roars

    Warped Oracle: Images from the Past II
    1 Clay feet
    2 Crowed about rogue
    3 Thug blocks pores
    4 A woman’s elbow
    5 Crawling now
    6 Plum tree
    Words & music by Peter Josheff, Peter Josheff, spoken voice, Keisuke Nakagoshi, piano

    INTERMISSION

    Ann Callaway: Cydonian Spring: five poems of Ezra Pound
    1 In Springtime the Kydonian Quinces
    2 Heather
    3 Gentildonna
    4 The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance
    5 Doria (a Dorian Girl)
    Amy Foote, soprano, Richard Mix, bass

    Mary Watkins: Persuasion
    Thalia Moore, cello, Karen Rosenak, piano

    Allen Shearer: excerpts from Jackie at Vassar, libretto by Claudia Stevens
    Amy Foote, soprano, Allen Shearer, baritone, Claudia Stevens, mezzo soprano, Karen Rosenak, piano

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City: Berkeley
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Admission $20 general, $15 students/seniors/disabled

Program Items

Mary Watkins Persuasion for cello and piano
Ann Callaway Cydonian Spring (Ezra Pound)
Ann Callaway Elizabethan Lyrics, three songs for bass and piano
Peter Josheff Images from the Past & Warped Oracle: Images from the Past II
Allen Shearer Thinking Thoughts for violin and piano, and excerpts from the one-act opera Jackie at Vassar on a libretto by Claudia Stevens.

Performers

Richard Mix bass
Amy Foote soprano
Karen Rosenak piano
Keisuke Nakagoshi piano
Nadya Tichman violin
Thalia Moore cello

Berkeley Piano Club

Berkeley Piano Club

2724 Haste Street
Berkeley, CA 94704
United States