Join us for Sonic Harvest 25 to mark Aaron Copland's 125th birthday! Sunday, November 16, 7:30 at Berkeley Piano Club.
We welcome guest composer Ursula Kwong-Brown and are pleased to announce that Dan Flanagan has joined the contributing directors of Sonic Harvest.
A quick description of the concert while we are redoing this site:
Ann Callaway’s Tasmanian Blue will be premiered by; Jeffrey LaDeur, piano; Dan Flanagan, violin; and Kyle Ko, horn.
Dan Flanagan, violin and Jeffrey LaDeur, piano will perform Dan’s Nue aux Cheveux Roux: Hommage à Henner, (after the paintings of Jean-Jacques Henner) and will premiere Ursula Kwong-Brown’s Ram’s Head, Blue Morning Glory (after the painting by Georgia O'Keefe).
Dan offers two of his works for violin solo, An Animated Street in Autumn(after the painting by Jean-François Raffaëlli) and Hymn (after a drawing by Camille Pissarro).
Allen Shearer offers the premiere of an opera on a libretto by Claudia Stevens titled What Aaron Copland Said, with Chad Somers as Roy Cohn, Richard Mix as Joseph McCarthy, the composer as Aaron Copland, and Claudia Stevens as narrator. With Jeffrey Sykes, piano.
Admission is $25 general, $15 students, payable at the door by cash or check.
Berkeley Piano Club, at 2724 Haste Street, Berkeley, is wheelchair accessible.