Gretchen Yanover - Cellist

Solo electric cello concert in this super neat venue, with video art by Ahren Buhmann + a special appearance by 3 wonderful tango dancers: Michelle Badion, Julia Ochs, & Victor Mushkatin.
Concert presented by Ariel Media.
Program:
“in your wings, querido” (poetry of Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs)
will
Touching the Stream
Bisoux
Heart and Sky
”to solve for heart" (poetry of Shin Yu Pai)
Voice to the Rain
Risoluto
The Story of an Embrace
with dance by Michelle, Julia & Victor
Turnaround
”i have spread my roots across borders/and i am growing still" (poetry of Ally Ang)
”If brown angels could fly" (poetry of Raúl Sánchez)
Willow Waltzes On

Jeffery Meyer, Conductor Xavier Foley, Double Bass Denise Dillenbeck, Violin

Clarice Assad, Suite for Lower Strings on Themes of Bach

Bottesini, Gran duo concertante

Xavier Foley, For Justice and Peace

Beethoven, Symphony No. 7

The favorite three B’s—Bach, Beethoven and…Bass? Yes. The extraordinary double bassist Xavier Foley is joining us for our season finale, performing Bottesini’s virtuosic Gran duo concertante with Concertmaster Denise Dillenbeck, and his own sweeping composition, For Justice and Peace. Clarice Assad’s Suite for Lower Strings opens this love-fest for the lowest-sounding instrument of our string family. Each playful movement highlights famous and recognizable themes by J.S. Bach in this fantasy suite. To close our season, Artistic Partner Jeffery Meyer leads the orchestra in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7, a sublime epic filled with Beethoven’s optimism in the face of adversity, and ultimately hope for the future.

Jeffery Meyer, Conductor Xavier Foley, Double Bass Denise Dillenbeck, Violin

Clarice Assad, Suite for Lower Strings on Themes of Bach

Bottesini, Gran duo concertante

Xavier Foley, For Justice and Peace

Beethoven, Symphony No. 7

The favorite three B’s—Bach, Beethoven and…Bass? Yes. The extraordinary double bassist Xavier Foley is joining us for our season finale, performing Bottesini’s virtuosic Gran duo concertante with Concertmaster Denise Dillenbeck, and his own sweeping composition, For Justice and Peace. Clarice Assad’s Suite for Lower Strings opens this love-fest for the lowest-sounding instrument of our string family. Each playful movement highlights famous and recognizable themes by J.S. Bach in this fantasy suite. To close our season, Artistic Partner Jeffery Meyer leads the orchestra in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7, a sublime epic filled with Beethoven’s optimism in the face of adversity, and ultimately hope for the future.

Enjoy a free afternoon concert at the library!

"Please join celebrated cellist and Seattle Public Library Artist in Residence, Gretchen Yanover, in the Children's Center for a series of informal concerts. She will perform her own compositions using a looping pedal, and kids will have opportunities to ask questions, share thoughts and ideas, as well as share suggestions of favorite books they would be interested in hearing with musical accompaniment!" (free)