"Ecstacy/Enstasy"

SLP continues their fourth season with an evening full of stunning and revelatory music.

Terry Riley’s 1986 string quartet “The Ecstasy” provides the listener with a transportation “from the everyday to another place.” Mary Jane Leach’s “Bach’s Set” (2007) is a likewise transformative piece, for solo cello and 8 tapes cellos, based on Bach’s first cello suite. Bunita Marcus’ meditative and melancholic “Lecture for Jo Kondo” (1985) takes the listener on an inward journey.

Finally, Australian composer Nicole Murphy’s “Parched Paddock” (for voice, percussion, piano; 2016) and D Edward Davis’ “when we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe” (tape, voice, piccolo; 2013) both beautiful, but starkly, discuss the role of the climate emergency on our avian friends.

Program
The Ecstasy–Terry Riley
Parched Paddock–Nicole Murphy
Bach’s Set–Mary Jane Leach
Lecture for Jo Kondo–Bunita Marcus
when we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe–D Edward Davis