Common Tone Arts Launches the TORCH Light Concert Series
Free (tickets by donation)
Common Tone Arts launches the TORCH Light series on Monday, October 24th, at First Free Methodist Church in Queen Anne. Our first program will feature the Seattle premiere of America's Guns, a musical lament from the TORCH quartet, as well as host Ryan Keberle, a New York trombonist who is showcasing new and improvised music by Reverso from their newest album release, Harmonic Alchemy.
About TORCH LIGHT
The TORCH Light series features the work of the TORCH Artist Collective, our friends in Seattle, and beyond. We serve as a platform to highlight powerful artists and create socially responsive work. Each show is performed in front of a live audience and simultaneously broadcast across the world. We have deliberately placed TORCH Light events on (mostly) the last Monday of each month to attract as many creators, musicians, and art lovers as possible. Tickets are at the door and by suggested donation.
https://www.instituteforcreativity.org/torchlightAbout Common Tone Arts
Common Tone Arts is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to transforming lives through artistic creation and education. We believe that creativity in the arts is a universal human need and acts as a common language to unite us — that art and music are powerful forces for human flourishing. We aspire to be a vibrant and flourishing community that can support artistic talent’s long growth curve, create artistic communities, build civic engagement, and inspire creative output.
https://www.instituteforcreativity.org/about-cta-1About TORCH
Eric Likkel, clarinets |
Brian Kai Chin, trumpets |
Steve Schermer, double bass |
Bonnie Whiting, vibraphone & percussion
About Reverso
Reverso, a trans-oceanic chamber jazz ensemble co-led by trombonist Ryan Keberle and pianist Frank Woeste, presents their original chamber jazz in concert. Reverso looks to bridge the divide between jazz and chamber music realized by an outstanding trio which also includes the acclaimed French cellist Vincent Courtois.
Keberle and Woeste show us that jazz and "classical" music have become even more intertwined in today’s music world, since they began to intersect amongst Ravel and his contemporaries such as Satie, Stravinsky, and Milhaud over 100 years earlier, mutually inspiring the other's practitioners.
Reverso’s repertoire features original compositions by Keberle and Woeste that draw particular inspiration from Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin, a suite for solo piano by Maurice Ravel and from the music of Les Six, a group of early 20th Century French composers whose members included Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, Arthur Honneger, and the sole female member of the group, Germaine Tailleferre.
https://ryankeberle.com/reverso/