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Blues on Now Is the Time

It’s blue and it’s the blues on Now Is the Time, Saturday, August 20th at 9 pm, We pick a Blueberry Rag-A-Muffin to begin the program, one of Linda Robbins Coleman’s many delightful piano rags, and then turn to the second movement of David Amram’s Violin Concerto, called Blues, which also includes an extended saxophone solo.
Larry Kucharz is represented by two of his ambient electronic works, Blue Drawing No. 02 and 03, while Mason Bates juggles blues fragments in his piano homage to Alan Lomax, White Lies for Lomax. John King puts the string quartet Ethel through its blues paces in ’Round Sunrise, and with Symphony in Blue for solo piano, Kamran Ince interprets a painting of the same name.

PROGRAM:
Linda Robbins Coleman: Blueberry Rag-A-Muffin
David Amram: Blues, from Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Larry Kucharz: Blue Drawing No. 02
Mason Bates: White Lies for Lomax
John King: ’Round Sunrise
Larry Kucharz: Blue Drawing No. 03
Kamran Ince: Symphony in Blue

Every Saturday night at 9 Eastern, Kile Smith plays new American classical music on WRTI’s Now Is the Time, at wrti.org and on HD-2. At wrti.org click on the Listen: Classical button at the top of any page. Thanks for supporting American contemporary music on WRTI!