Karnavalito No. 1 (2013) by Gabriela Lena Frank (b. 1972)

Guest pianist Tin Yi Chelsea Wong* performs a special solo piano recital in an Old World/New World musical conversation between three renowned Old World 20th century composers.

*Pianist TIN YI CHELSEA WONG’s international career spans a wide variety of performance spaces. Appearances include San Francisco Botanical Garden, Palace of Fine Arts, Salzburg Wienersaal, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. An advocate of contemporary music, she premiered Lukas Janata’s Echi and Youth, Ilya Demutsky’s Skomoroshina, Ryan Brown’s Mortal Lessons, and many other new works. With a focus on extended techniques, Tin Yi Chelsea Wong invented the Harmonic Capo, currently advancing the prototype while commissioning composers to create new possibilities for the piano repertoire. She is the founder of the outdoor concert series, “Piano at The Palace.

Karnavalito No. 1 by Gabriela Lena Frank

Composed by Tom Nazziola
Performed by:
Wade Culbreath - Marimba
Tom Nazzioa - Djembe
Mastered by William Weisbach
Engineered by Wade Culbreath and Tom Nazziola

Created by Grammy®-nominated composer Tom Nazziola, “Immovable Do” (pronounced "dough") features a soaring, relentless marimba pattern (almost etude-like), which is joined by an equally aggressive and supportive djembe part - both exploring different accents and phrases governed by elements of African and Indian music. The “tongue-in-cheek” title refers to the anchoring of harmony by a recurring low “C” or “Do” (as used in solfege). The stable repetition of C eventually makes its way to C# (still considered “Do” in the solfege system) allowing for a shift in harmonic perspective thanks to a play on words and pitch license (if you will).

Immovable Do

E4TT's third recording,"Once/Memory/Night: Paul Celan" will be released as a digital EP on June 30, 2020. The recording consists of three new commissions that E4TT premiered in 2018, along with a fourth relevant work: “Die eichne Tür” (The Oaken Door),by E4TT composer and co-founder David Garner to poems by Paul Celan, including "Espenbaum” (Aspen tree), the poet's heartrending reflection on his survival and his mother’s death; "Nachtlang" (Nightlong) by Jared Redmond (b. 1986), setting Celan’s “Notturno” (Night) and “Einmal” (“Once”); "A Song on the End of the World" by Stephen Eddins (b. 1954), setting a poem by Celan’s Nobel Prize-winning contemporary, Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) and including a reading of the poem by the translator and poet's son Anthony Milosz; “4 ½” for solo piano, by world-renowned composer Libby Larsen (b. 1950). A suite for solo piano, “4 ½” consists of five interrelated movements, the final one of which, subtitled “In Memoriam,” is “an elegy for departed, beloved ones.”

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Soprano Nanette McGuinness Pianist Dale Tsang. Composer David Garner. Cellist Adaiha MacAdam-Somer or Anne Lerner-Wright.  

Karnavalito No. 1 by Gabriela Lena Frank

Ensemble for These Times (E4TT)

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