Berceuse Fantasque on Now Is the Time

You might call these fantastic lullabies on Now Is the Time, Sunday, August 25th at 10 pm. The birth of a friend’s daughter inspired Rick Sowash’s Lullabye for Kara for cello and piano. Steven Gerber’s Violin Concerto is a rocking to sleep, of sorts, of a work he began as a student at Haverford College but never finished. One part of it, however, was born anew as this concerto’s first movement.

From solo strings to more—but synthesized—is Carl Berky’s The Synthelating Mariachi String Band. In Secret Geometry, James Primosch uses electronic tape with piano, and between explosive Variations and a brilliant Toccata is a Nocturne in the true spirit of night-music: the other side of a lullaby, perhaps. Phillip Lasser focuses on the singer of the lullaby rather more than the song itself, in Berceuse fantasque for violin and piano.

from Philip Lasser: Berceuse fantasque 

PROGRAM:
Rick Sowash: Lullabye for Kara
Steven R. Gerber: Violin Concerto
Carl Berky: The Synthelating Mariachi String Band
James Primosch: Secret Geometry
Philip Lasser: Berceuse fantasque

Every Sunday night at 10, Kile Smith brings you Now Is the Time, all styles of contemporary concert music by living American composers on WRTI-HD2 and the all-classical stream at wrti.org. Here are the recording details and complete schedule.