John Stetch invites you to two solo piano concerts next week.
Friday, September 9 at Barnes Hall (Cornell University) at 8 pm
Saturday, September 10 at Hockett Recital Hall (Ithaca College) at 7 pm
(please note the early start time)
The admission is free and open to the public.
The program will consist of free improvisation; many short pieces in the first half, and a few longer ones in the 2nd half.
John has also recently released his 12th commercial CD - Fabled States was recorded last January at Ithaca College, featuring Brooklyn musicians Joe Martin (bass) and Greg Ritchie (drums). It's on Addo Records, and it is his first album of previously-never-recorded all-original tunes in 20 years. It features fun inclusions he has never tried before, like 1/4-tone tuning, free group improv, longer form compositions, and some unusual percussion for this format. As Cornell Professor David Yearsley's liner notes describe it:
"The best recordings create their own world, the musicians taking their listeners to unfamiliar places or, when, revisiting familiar territory, doing so according to an unexpected itinerary that inspires new ways of hearing. Music becomes a form of transport, one that moves listeners not only emotionally, but also, in a sense, geographically, through the conjuring of far-off places. The listener is made to journey within the self and beyond it. To be able simultaneously to evoke distance and closeness requires skill and imagination, a keen sense of adventure and refinement, and a respect for history that is not slavish to the past but resolutely pushes forward towards untrodden ground. Exploration requires know where others have been before. Inspiration comes from the artistic achievements of predecessors, and also from the quotidian—from people and sounds, newly encountered or affectionately recalled. Fabled States encompasses a vast physical and emotional geography, these dozen original compositions by John Stetch spanning a musical range that is truly global, stretching from the Black Sea to the Appalachian Mountains, from the Tibetan Plateau to New York’s 52nd Street in the heyday of bebop".
The CD can be purchased directly from addorecords.com
*Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodation should contact the School of Music at 607-274-3717.
