Friday, August 5

8:30PM – Union Hall

EVERYTHING DANCES

MICHELLE CANN, piano

AEOLUS QUARTET

                NICHOLAS TAVANI, violin

                RACHEL SHAPIRO, violin

                CAITLIN LYNCH, viola

                ALAN RICHARDSON, cello

“Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.” Maya Angelou

A program of music by composers whose lives and artistry demonstrate resilience and passion. There is joy in this program, but there is also contemplation and empathy; different rhythms that dance together in our collective emotional universe.

A champion of music by Florence Price, acclaimed pianist Michelle Cann is joined by the Aeolus Quartet, named for the Greek god Aeolus, who governed the four winds as a single spirit uniting four individual forces.

Program

FLORENCE PRICE Piano Sonata in E Minor (Movement II)

JESSIE MONTGOMERY Strum

FLORENCE PRICE Juba from String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor

HAZEL SCOTT     Improvisation on Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp Minor

                                Improvisation on Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 3 No. 2

AMY BEACH Piano Quintet Op. 67 (Movement II)

FLORENCE PRICE Piano Quintet in A Minor (Movements III and IV)