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 bass

Peter Garland: Voilà! (2023)

Alma Lisa Fernandez, viola

Larry Polansky: Eskimo Lullaby (2006)

John Schneider, just-intonation national steel guitar and voice

Daniel Lentz: River of 1,000 Streams (2016)

Vicki Ray, piano

Chas Smith: Perimeter (2021)

Chas Smith
September 24, 2024
8:00 pm
Monk Space
4414 W. 2nd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90004

Chas Smith
September 24, 2024
8:00 pm
Monk Space
4414 W. 2nd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90004

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 bass

Peter Garland: Voilà! (2023)

Alma Lisa Fernandez, viola

Larry Polansky: Eskimo Lullaby (2006)

John Schneider, just-intonation national steel guitar and voice

Daniel Lentz: River of 1,000 Streams (2016)

Vicki Ray, piano

Chas Smith: Perimeter (2021)