Composers in Play XIV: Ink from the Shield
$40 ($35 senior; students free)
- Anthony De Mare, piano
- Adam Sherkin, piano
Vivian Fung — White on Black
Kelly-Marie Murphy — Start Burning Blue (2000; for solo piano)
Heather Schmidt — Twelve for Ten: Prelude-Fugue for GG (2007)
Rodney Sharman / Various — Opera Transcriptions
Adam Sherkin — Ink from from the Shield (2024; for 2 pianos)
Linda Catlin Smith — The View from Here (1992)
Ann Southam — Rivers I (Set 1)
Ann Southam — Rivers IV (Set 3)
Andrew Staniland — Etudes for Piano (2018-22)
Pianists Anthony de Mare and Adam Sherkin join forces for this all-Canadian program. In sets for both one and two keyboards, music from our continent's north is highlighted in fresh relief, featuring works by Vivian Fung, Andrew Stanliand, Ann Southam, Heather Schmidt, Linda Catlin Smith and Rodney Sharman. With every selection written in the last twenty-five years, de Mare and Sherkin take on solo sets, then team up for special commissions on two pianos: a novel version of Jared Miller's The Bright Exuberant Silence—from the second movement, "Effervescent"—and Adam Sherkin's Ink from the Shield: musical postcards taking inspiration from the time Benjamin Britten and Peters Pears spent in Canada—as pacifists—during the Second World War.
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