CROWNING DAY THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE PROJECT 2016-’17 SEASON PREMIERE "Crowning Day" is a bold five-movement multi-media composition for string quartet, piano, and baritone voice/narrator by composer and photographer Marcus Oldham. It tells several stories of historical racial relationships, through images of two former North Carolina plantations along with other pertinent subjects, as time progresses from the colonial era, slavery, the Civil War, Jim Crow segregation, and into the present. This work is a meditation upon what music and image can…

CROWNING DAY THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE PROJECT 2016-’17 SEASON PREMIERE "Crowning Day" is a bold five-movement multi-media composition for string quartet, piano, and baritone voice/narrator by composer and photographer Marcus Oldham. It tells several stories of historical racial relationships, through images of two former North Carolina plantations along with other pertinent subjects, as time progresses from the colonial era, slavery, the Civil War, Jim Crow segregation, and into the present. This work is a meditation upon what music and image can…

Help us kick off our fall season at the Kirkland Performance Center with a frightfully melodic afternoon of dynamic music that will set you on the edge of your seat. Dr. Ed Powell conducts the Eastside’s premier wind ensemble in performing several epic and exhilarating works, including: “Danse Macabre”—In this Halloween favorite, French composer Camille Saint-Saens sets an ominous scene for the arrival of the grim figure of Death. Envision ghastly skeletons flying overhead as the xylophone suggests dancing bones,…

Passionate Argentine singer and composer Sofía Rei blends musical traditions from across Latin America with a masterful approach deeply versed in jazz, electronica and folkore. Called "a leading light of Latin Jazz” by The Village Voice, this in-demand vocalist has performed at Carnegie Hall with Bobby McFerrin, with Geoffrey Keezer, and John Zorn.  Opening band: Josh Deutch's Pannonia, whose debut album was a 2014 Editor's Pick by DownBeat Magazine. Happy Hour starts 7 PM (cash bar): Now serving wine and…

Part of the 2016 Earshot Jazz Festival Miles Davis and Gil Evans became long-time collaborators starting in 1948 with their work on the “Birth of the Cool” recording. It became one of the most famous albums in all jazz history. Miles soon emerged as one of the leading innovators in jazz, always seeking out the best musicians for his musical explorations. Gil Evans, who was heavily influenced by Spanish and Brazilian composers, was Miles’ top choice as an arranger of…

Part of the 2016 Earshot Jazz Festival Miles Davis and Gil Evans became long-time collaborators starting in 1948 with their work on the “Birth of the Cool” recording. It became one of the most famous albums in all jazz history. Miles soon emerged as one of the leading innovators in jazz, always seeking out the best musicians for his musical explorations. Gil Evans, who was heavily influenced by Spanish and Brazilian composers, was Miles’ top choice as an arranger of…