[Livestream] The Music of Henry Eichheim

Henry Eichheim – Seven Songs (1910) for voice and piano (texts by W.B. Yeats and Fiona MacLeod)
Henry Eichheim – Oriental Impressions (1919) for piano

Join multi-instrumentalist Peter Nelson-King for a lecture recital on a largely forgotten member of American modernist music, Henry Eichheim (1870-1942), featuring all of his published works. Eichheim was a violinist and composer who gained great note for his travels to East Asia, where he became an authority on various Asian musical traditions and amassed a large collection of instruments, which remains intact to this day. He composed infrequently, and only two of his pieces were formally published: a collection of seven songs after texts by William Butler Yeats and Fiona MacLeod, and his Oriental Impressions for piano which, in their orchestral versions, where championed by Leopold Stokowski. Both are extraordinarily rich pieces that are in dire need of critical reappraisal. I'll be performing both sets and discussing his work and place in American music.

Watch the livestream here: https://www.facebook.com/events/237965580895039/

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About Peter Nelson-King

Peter Nelson-King is an active performer and teacher on trumpet and piano, and plays regularly with multiple orchestras and large ensembles in the Seattle area. A King County native, they earned degrees from University of Puget Sound and Boston University, returning to the Seattle area after freelancing in the Northeast. They are a longtime member of Lake Washington Symphony Orchestra and Brass Band Northwest, and a frequent recurring member of the experimental jazz group Scrambler. As a solo and chamber performer, they specialize in promoting works by composers who have unjustly fallen into neglect, and have revived major works by dozens of these composers for Seattle audiences.