(photo: Joe Mabel)
8:00 PM; $5 - $15 sliding scale suggested donation at the door (cash/checks only)
Composer/pianist Neal Kosaly-Meyer performs a new installment of his composition-in-perpetual progress, Gradus: for Fux, Tesla, and Milo the Wrestler. The nutshell version of the score is “Learn to play the piano one note at a time.” The practical working-out of that has been devoting an extended improvisation session (at least twenty minutes) to each single pitch and each combination of pitches available on the piano keyboard.
It has taken eleven and a half years to work through all eight A’s and all the possible combinations of those eight A’s: each single A, each combination of two, three, four, five, six and seven A’s, and finally this past summer the session that included all eight. That milestone was followed by another, the introduction of a second pitch, E. This performance is a celebration of sorts, including three sections that mark three milestones: the single low A with which the sessions commenced in January 2002; all eight A’s; and a pair of pitches to include at least one of the three E’s explored so far.
8:00 PM; $5 - $15 sliding scale suggested donation at the door (cash/checks only)
Composer/pianist Neal Kosaly-Meyer performs a new installment of his composition-in-perpetual progress, Gradus: for Fux, Tesla, and Milo the Wrestler. The nutshell version of the score is “Learn to play the piano one note at a time.” The practical working-out of that has been devoting an extended improvisation session (at least twenty minutes) to each single pitch and each combination of pitches available on the piano keyboard.
It has taken eleven and a half years to work through all eight A’s and all the possible combinations of those eight A’s: each single A, each combination of two, three, four, five, six and seven A’s, and finally this past summer the session that included all eight. That milestone was followed by another, the introduction of a second pitch, E. This performance is a celebration of sorts, including three sections that mark three milestones: the single low A with which the sessions commenced in January 2002; all eight A’s; and a pair of pitches to include at least one of the three E’s explored so far.