Tuesdays @ Monk Space PRESENTS
Cold Blue Music Presents an Evening of Solos . . . and More: Music by John Luther Adams, Peter Garland, Larry Polansky, Chas Smith, and Daniel Lentz
Exquisite, virtuosic music from Los Angeles’s Cold Blue Music record label, a source of remarkable new music with a West Coast slant for more than 25 years.
Performances by Vicki Ray, John Schneider, Alma Lisa Fernandez, and Christopher Roberts, including a Los Angeles premiere (Adams) and a world premiere (Garland). Works for piano with “cascading echoes,” solo double bass, solo viola, and voice with just-intonation National steel guitar. Also heard will be a short recorded work by the late composer and instrument builder Chas Smith.
Program
John Luther Adams: Three Nocturnes (2022)
Christopher Roberts, double bassPeter Garland: Voilà! (2023)
Alma Lisa Fernandez, violaLarry Polansky: Eskimo Lullaby (2006)
John Schneider, just-intonation national steel guitar and voiceDaniel Lentz: River of 1,000 Streams (2016)
Vicki Ray, pianoChas Smith: Perimeter (2021)
Exquisite, virtuosic music from Los Angeles’s Cold Blue Music record label, a source of remarkable new music with a West Coast slant for more than 25 years.
Performances by Vicki Ray, John Schneider, Alma Lisa Fernandez, and Christopher Roberts, including a Los Angeles premiere (Adams) and a world premiere (Garland). Works for piano with “cascading echoes,” solo double bass, solo viola, and voice with just-intonation National steel guitar. Also heard will be a short recorded work by the late composer and instrument builder Chas Smith.