NEXT CONCERT:
Saturday, April 28 at 8:00 pm (note time change!)
Lincoln Recital Hall, Portland State Univ.

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SONGS FOR A MAD KING: a concert of crazy monarchs

Peter Maxwell Davies ~ Eight Songs for a Mad King (1969)
Music-theater piece for [crazy] male singer and chamber ensemble
featuring Douglas Webster, baritone

Charles Wakefield Cadman ~ A Mad Empress Remembers (1944)
A romantic and deluded memoir about Empress Carlota of Mexico
Diane Chaplin, cello and Susan DeWitt Smith, piano

Morton Feldman ~ King of Denmark (1964)
Evocative atmosphere
Florian Conzetti, percussion

Thomas Larcher ~ My Illness is the Medicine I Need (2002)
A montage of mental illness for soprano and piano trio
Catherine Olson, soprano

THE ENSEMBLE
Tylor Neist, violin ~ Diane Chaplin, cello ~ Susan DeWitt Smith, piano
Florian Conzetti, percussion ~ Sarah Tiedemann, flute ~ Louis Demartino, clarinet