Sun 14 Mar 2010
If you woke up hankerin’ for some chamber-style cowboy music, don’t miss this. Even if you didn’t, it promises to be a delightful evening– two performances, March 18th and 20th.
“Contemporary Cowboy” is part of the Wayward Series put on by Splash!, a Seattle chamber group composed of Roger Nelson, piano, Janna Wächter, voice and special guest soprano Anneliese von Goerken.
March Thursday 18th and Saturday 20th at 7:30pm
Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Avenue North, Seattle, 98103-6900
Sliding scale of $5-15
Music of traditional cowboy songs, Morton Feldman and Jarrad Powell piano works, Ivan Sokolov and Charles Ives songs, Aaron Copland Emily Dickinson poems, Libby Larson Calamity Jane songs and the premiere of Janna Wächter’s “Contemporary Cowboy.” The combination of the a Capella cowboy songs dating back to 1865 and Morton Feldman’s piano music creates an atmosphere similar to the immense prairie. Wächter weaves contemporary sounds with her own original “cowboy music.”
Death is a spirit leaving a body, sort of like a shell leaving the nut behind. — Erma Bombeck