Down to the Depths

Sunday, Nov 23 / 3:00 - 5:00 PM

Kirby Horton Hall, Sarah P. Duke Gardens, Durham

With guest artists Low and Lower

Low and lower, America’s #1-selling cello-bass duo, will perform a potpourri of their most popular eclectic repertoire, including their viral YouTube hit Poke: a bagatelle on antisocial media  by UNCSA composer Lawrence Dillon and their Gilbert and Sullivan patter song parody A Modern Music Genius from their beloved song cycle Low and Lower Lieder .  Enjoy the theater of John Deak’s BB Wolf (big bad wolf, that is) in which a self-narrating bass player bemoans the bad rap wolves get in fairy tales, and selections from their ground-breaking series Last in Flight, including Rimsky-Korsakov’sFlight of the Bumblebee as you have never heard it before.  Violist Suzanne Rousso will join the duo for Mike Kelley’s Twisted, in which the players must recite rapid-fire tongue twisters as they play.  Violinist Janet Orenstein will round out the ensemble for Arensky’s A minor Quartet op. 35.  Originally scored for violin, viola and two cellos, bassist Paul Sharpe has claimed one of the cello parts as his own, proving Low and Lower’s confident assertion that all chamber music is better with bass!
Brooks Whitehouse cello
Paul Sharpe bass
Janet Orenstein violin
Suzanne Rousso viola