Jess Gillam, Saxophone
Thomas Weaver, Piano
Performers
Jess Gillam, Saxophone
Thomas Weaver, Piano
Program
MEREDITH MONK Early Morning Melody (transcr. Simon Parkin)
PHILIP GLASS Melody for Saxophone No. 10
LUKE HOWARD Dappled Light
POULENC Oboe Sonata
BARBARA THOMPSON The Unseen Way
TELEMANN Bassoon Sonata in F Minor (arr. Simon Parkin)
AYANNA WITTER-JOHNSON Lumina
JOHN HARLE RANT!
DOWLAND "Flow, my tears, fall from your springs" (arr. David Warin Solomons)
WEILL "Je ne t'aime pas" (arr. Paul Campbell)
PIAZZOLLA Selections from Histoire du Tango (arr. Simon Parkin)
·· "Bordel 1900"
·· "Café 1930"
·· "Night Club 1960"
Encore:
PEDRO ITURRALDE Pequeña Czarda
Event Duration
The printed program will last approximately 90 minutes, including one 20-minute intermission.Listen to Selected Works
At a Glance
Like most of the composers represented on tonight’s program, saxophonist Jess Gillam is at home in a wide range of styles and idioms. From Georg Philipp Telemann’s early 18th-century Bassoon Sonata to Kurt Weill’s bittersweet cabaret song “Je ne t’aime pas” of 1934 and Ayanna Witter-Johnson’s freshly minted Lumina, each of the 11 selections highlights a distinct synthesis of elements drawn from classical, jazz, and popular music traditions. Several of the works Gillam has chosen are forward-looking and cutting-edge, but Francis Poulenc’s 1963 Oboe Sonata memorializes a musical tradition that was fast changing beyond recognition, while Astor Piazzolla’s Histoire du Tango traces the evolution of Argentina’s national dance from its humble origins in Buenos Aires to an increasingly global and cosmopolitan phenomenon.