Sarah Cahill Performs on HEAR | TOGETHER - a Day-Long Outdoor Piano Concert at Crowden Music Center
Sunday, May 9, 2021 from 10am – 7pm
Crowden Music Center | 1475 Rose St | Berkeley, CA
Outdoors at the corner of Rose and Sacramento Streets
On Sunday, May 9, 2021, Sarah Cahill, described as “a sterling pianist and an intrepid illuminator of the classical avant-garde” by The New York Times, will perform an hour-long concert as part of HEAR | TOGETHER, a celebration of the return of live music safely, in the open air, and the diverse range of pianists and composers in the Bay Area. Running from 10am – 7pm and presented by a consortium of non- profit performing arts organizations – Alternating Currents, Crowden Music Center, Contemporaneous, and New Music Bay Area – the event will be an outdoor showcase at the Crowden Music Center (1475 Rose St | at the corner of Rose and Sacramento Streets) for pianists Allegra Chapman, Tammy Hall with singer Leberta Lorál, Marcos Silva, Dylan Mattingly, Elizabeth Dorman, Sarah Cahill, Monica Chew, and Robert Fleitz, and students from the Crowden Music Center.
Cahill’s program, beginning at 4pm, features the world premiere of selections from Frederic Rzewski’s Humanitas; unpublished works by Lou Harrison; Paul Dresher’s Two Entwined; as well as works from her project The Future is Female, including Mary Watkins’ Summer Days; Margaret Bonds’ Troubled Water; and Gabriela Lena Frank’s Barcarola Latinoamericana. Paul Dresher will be present to speak about his piece, Two Entwined.
HEAR | TOGETHER is free and open to the public and observant of Covid-19 protocols. In light of the need for social distancing, reservations via Eventbrite will be required and limited to ensure the safety of performers and audience members. Free, reserved tickets are available at bit.ly/HearTogetherTickets.
Performance Schedule for Sunday, May 9, 2021 at Crowden Music Center
10am: Crowden Music Center students
11am: Monica Chew
Book 1 of Etudes by Fred Onovwerosuoke
selections from Elena Kats-Chernin's Unsent Love Letters
12pm: Elizabeth Dorman
works by Timo Andres, Scarlatti, and Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre
1pm: Tammy Hall and Leberta Lorál
original compositions
American songbook standards
The Nearness of You and Blue Divine – an original by Tammy Hall (with Leberta Lorál)
2pm: Marcos Silva
3pm: Allegra Chapman
selections from J.S. Bach’s Partita in G Major, BMW 829 Reena Esmail Rang de Basant selections from Harry Burleigh’s From the Southland selections from Grazyna Bacewicz’s 10 Studies for Piano
3:20pm: Dylan Mattingly
Improvisations
4pm: Sarah Cahill
selections from Frederic Rzewski’s Humanitas (premiere)
Mary Watkins’ Summer Days
Margaret Bonds Troubled Water
Gabriela Lena Frank’s Barcarola Latinoamericana
unpublished works by Lou Harrison
Paul Dresher’s Two Entwined
5 - 7pm: Robert Fleitz
Dylan Mattingly’s Achilles Dreams of Ebbets Field
For more information about Sarah Cahill, please visit: www.sarahcahill.com.