JB Floyd: New Music for the Yamaha Disklavier™ and Raphael Mostel: intimate, acoustic. For many years, JB Floyd has been exploring the myriad possibilities of the Yamaha Disklavier™ — the modern answer to the player piano — and combining it with both Computer Assisted Virtual Instruments and live, acoustic performers. Floyd will premiere a new setting of Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore’s poem "In Crossing The Busy Street," featuring baritone Thomas Buckner, plus other new compositions and improvisations. Also joining Floyd for this concert will be pianist Liana Pailodze, a rising star on the music scene from University of Miami. “Yamaha artist James Robert Floyd personifies the Renaissance man. He is a teacher, performer and composer who has written in almost every musical genre.” — yamaha.com. Disklavier™ provided by Yamaha Artist Services.
Raphael Mostel will present a rare performance of intimate solo works, featuring previews of his Letter to Benoit Mandelbrot and his Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Bela. “The music of Raphael Mostel, one of New York’s most original composers, has always evoked the subtle and continuous sounds of nature: nocturnal insects, the wind, the distant howling of wolves, the music of the spheres, cosmic dramas.” — Kyle Gann, The New York Times