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Event ID: 
4833
Title: 
Lilac 94 at Southminster Presbyterian Church
July 5, 2015
Presented by: 
Lilac 94
Event Type: 
Performances
Genre: 
New Music
Event Contact Name: 
Kathryn Sloat
Event Contact Email: 
Event Description: 

Christina Brier and Kathryn Sloat of Lilac 94 are traveling to the Midwest to share an oddity: two harps, classical instruments, playing decidedly non­classical music. All of the pieces they will perform on the concert were written in the last fifteen years, several of them written specifically for Lilac 94. Last summer Christina and Kate spent two weeks at the Fresh Inc Festival in Wisconsin, where they worked with young composers on new music for their harp duo. One of these new pieces includes “The Juniper Tree” by Rebecca Larkin, which depicts a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. Other pieces that will be featured on the program include a double harp cadenza, dance music for two harps, and a collaboration with Chicago flutist Jenni Shanahan, whom they also met and worked with at the Fresh Inc Festival.

The centerpiece of the show will be a set of new works written for them by composers Daniel Morel and Bret Bohman. Each of these pieces portrays a different setting in the Midwest, including Kansas City (Daniel Morel’s “KC Blue”), Tiffin, Ohio (Bret Bohman’s “Foglifter”), and Ann Arbor, Michigan (Bret Bohman’s “Swirl”). This new music was the inspiration for Lilac 94’s journey through the Midwest. Christina and Kate thought it would interesting to play Bret and Daniel’s music in their places of origin, and fun for audiences to hear their area of the country depicted as harp music.

Ensemble Name: 
Lilac 94
Musicians: 
Kathryn Sloat, Christina Brier, Jenni Shanahan
Composers: 
Karl Jenkins, Rebecca Larkin, Naomi Lewis, Nick Conn, Wei Dai, Caroline Lizotte, Bret Bohman, Daniel Morel
Program: 

Karl Jenkins: Over the Stone Tros y Garreg: A Concerto for 2 Harps

V. Cadenza

Rebecca Larkin: The Juniper Tree

I. My mother butchered me, my father ate me

II. My sister lay me under the juniper tree

III. Tweet twee, what a pretty bird am I!

Naomi Lewis: The Taff Trail

I. Castell Coch

II. Radyr Weir

III. The Bay

Nick Conn: Reflections

Wei Dai: Alchemy for flute and two harps

Caroline Lizotte: Raga, pour deux harpes, Op. 41

Mithoon Sharma, arr. Christina Brier: Tum Hi Ho

Bret Bohman: Swirl

Bret Bohman: Foglifter

Daniel Morel: KC Blue

Sufjan Stevens, Arr. Mikaela Davis: Chicago

Venue: 
Southminster Presbyterian Church
Location: 
200 Richard Street
Waukesha, WI
Description: 

Free, Donations accepted.

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