MicroFest

The 2005 Festival of Microtonal Music

From Ancient Greece to Modern Gamelan

Sunday May 8 / 8:00

Lyman Hall, Thatcher Music Building
Pomona College
College and Fourth
Claremont

Featuring:

Two rarely heard works by Lou Harrison: Threnody for Oliver Daniel for Just Intonation Harp and Wesak Sonata for Just Intonation zheng (Chinese zither);

Jeffrey Holmes's new chamber concerto for two microtonal guitars, May the Bridges I Burn Light My Way;

Introspection II by Peter Steele written for the Harvey Mudd American Gamelan;

Gending Vogel Flats, a new work for violin and Just Intonation gamelan by Bill Alves and featuring Rachel Vetter Huang; and

Three Homeric Hymns by Douglas Leedy, whose remarkable settings of classical Greek texts in authentic tunings have here been adapted for gamelan, shakuhachi, and harp by Bill Alves and featuring soprano Jennifer Goltz.
Free admission
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