"Something For the Cheap Seats" Recital Sept. 13, 2014 5:00PM

The Pipes and Keys trio will be giving a recital in one week!  So that is exciting.  This recital is meant to be purely entertaining.  We aren't performing pieces that are complex; in fact, our goal was to play music with which our audience will already be pretty familiar or to play pieces that are extremely easy to grasp.  Only one of the pieces is longer than 5 minutes, and it is a grand total of maybe 8 minutes.  Maybe...

I suppose I should introduce the other people with whom I will be performing.  Playing flute with me will be Katie Smyth.  We went to graduate school together and while our babies have a play date, well, so do we! :)  Our pianist is Taylor Burkhardt.  We met her while in we were in graduate school because she also plays the flute and was therefore a part of our studio classes.  It was always nice to have a "resident" pianist in studio class...no need to find an accompanist to bring.



On to the music!  We will be performing a variety of mediums including trios, duets, solos with piano, and unaccompanied solos.  The styles of the pieces are pretty varied as well and we hope that, with works by composers from J.S. Bach to Robert Dick and Ian Clarke, everyone in the audience will have a good time and perhaps a personal, musical enlightenment.  But mainly, let's have fun!  One of the things that makes the repertoire of this recital interesting is that Katie and I will be playing arrangements of well-known piano pieces.  We also manage to steal a piece written for violin that will stretch me to my limits as far as breathing while being pregnant.  Let it also be known that we will be playing exceedingly familiar music from an exceedingly famous opera.  As previously stated, this recital is meant to be light-hearted, but it will not lack for drama!

I find this music particularly challenging in the breathing department and I am sure to feel very accomplished by the end of it all.  The repertoire includes the use of a multitude of extended techniques and the full range of the flute: seriously, we will play low B's and C's frequently and we will play notes that are uncomfortably high...really high. Fourth register high.

Anyway, below you will find the flyer and I hope to see you there!  Oh, I should also mention that there will be a surprise guest artist on one of the pieces!!! You do not want to miss this uber talented player.