Performers
Frank Abbinanti
Richard Brasseale
Nina Corwin
Michael Hall
Sasha Ishov
Richard Brasseale
Joanie Pallatto
Bradley Parker-Sparrow
Program
Day of the Dead: Troubled Water
Margaret Bonds † | Troubled Water
Marilyn Shrude † | Solidarnosc
George Flynn † | American Nocturne
John Lennon | In Memoriam: Jim De Jong
Michael Hall | Salome Gives Seven Explanations For A Kiss*
Paul Coletti | Fantasia*
Quinn Mason | In Memoriam*
Javier Álvarez | Lluvia de Toritos
Jacob TV | Garden of Love
*World Premiere Performance
† Illinois-based Composer
Day of the Dead: Troubled Water
Sunday, November 2, is the second Day of the Dead, Día de los Muertos, celebrated in Mexican culture. The core of the celebration is to honor the dead, a sentiment that transcends cultural boundaries, a two day holiday that reunites the living and dead. Given our current political situation, we have chosen to expand the program in several ways, not only by including memorial pieces, but to acknowledge the conflicts we are experiencing in our social and political lives and finding imaginative expressions of these conflicts both poetically and musically.
Our featured performer, Rochelle Sennet, will play Margaret Bonds' Troubled Water, from her Spiritual Suite for piano, a piece which reminds us of resistance and hope.