Originally scheduled for the spring 2020 season when most concerts had to be cancelled due to the CoVid pandemic, this concert will feature Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos’ suite of sixteen Cirandas – a group of pieces based on Brazilian children’s songs which are set in a very colorful and rhythmic way. While they are widely considered to be Villa-Lobos’ best music for piano, they have only rarely been heard outside Brazil because they were published by a Brazilian firm with no international distribution, only recently becoming available. The concert will open with Mexican composer Federico Ibarra’s seventh sonata, completed in 2012 and dedicated to Sturm, who will release a recording of it later this year. It will be paired with a short piece that Ibarra completed in 2019, entitled Annihilation of a Dream. Rounding out the program will be Argentine composer Alejandro Rutty’s Qualia (2015), written in an extended tango style with layers of rhythm and accents.
$20 general, $15 Outpost members and students