Hello again! Welcome to our preview series for our upcoming concert, The Prepared Piano with Tin Yi Chelsea Wong ! We wanted to do a bit of extra pre-insight for this cycle as the Prepared Piano is a very niche and cool pocket of the classical world! Everyone is familiar with a normal piano, but a Prepared  Piano is an umbrella term for a piano which has added… “hardware” to it. From the image above, you can see that the composer called for the addition of various screws and

Hi and welcome to our last preview of Tenth Muse! Concerts begin Saturday, February 15th. We hope this round of newsletters has been helpful in introducing you to our upcoming program! For our last preview, we will focus on Cooper Grosscup's inspiration for Tenth Muse,  Sappho. To read our previous post on Cooper, click here . Sappho's Life Sappho and Alcaeus, Sir Laweence Alma Tadema 1881 Sappho was an ancient Greek poet born approximately c.610. She specialized in lyric poe

Hello and welcome back to our third installment of our preview for Tenth Muse coming up later this month! We are pivoting to the contemporary world of Dominick Argento (1927-2019) and his muse Virginia Woolf, who inspired his piece on our program.  Dominick Argento Argento was best known for his vocal music; he composed 13 operas over his lifetime. He married the soprano, Carolyn Bailey, who was a collaborative partner and premiered many of his works. The drive to create voca