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Jan. 31, 7:30 p.m.
The Dream Songs Project: Nature Stories

Feb. 6-7
Keys Please: Weekend at Keys Please

Feb. 11, 7 p.m.
The New Ruckus Composer Night

Feb. 12, 5:30 p.m.
Lowertown Listening Session: Stockhausen's Gesang der Jünglinge

Feb. 13, 7:30 p.m.
Jason Squinobal Quartet

Feb. 21, 3-9 p.m.
Jazz at Studio Z: Winter Jazz Fest

March 5, 5:30 p.m.
Lowertown Listening Session: Stockhausen's Stimmung

March 6
Jeffery Kyle Hutchins

March 7, 7:30 p.m.
Caprice Saxophone Quartet

March 10, 7 p.m.
The New Ruckus Composer Night

March 13-14
Zeitgeist: Playing it Close to Home

March 21
Jazz at Studio Z & Scotty Horey

April 2, 5:30 p.m.
Lowertown Listening Session: Stockhausen's Licht

April 11
Jazz at Studio Z

April 14, 7 p.m.
The New Ruckus Composer Night

April 17
One World Consort

April 23-26
Zeitgeist's Early Music Festival: Music of Stockhausen

May 2, 7:30 p.m.
Spitting Image Collective

May 9
ANCIA Saxophone Quartet

May 11, 7 p.m.
The New Ruckus Composer Night

May 16
Jazz at Studio Z

May 22
crow with no mouth

June 11
crow with no mouth

June 12-14
Zeitgeist & Scott Miller: Tipping Point

June 16, 7 p.m.
The New Ruckus Composer Night

June 20
Jazz at Studio Z

July 13, 7 p.m.
The New Ruckus Composer Night

July 18
crow with no mouth

Aug. 12, 7 p.m.
The New Ruckus Composer Night

Aug. 15
crow with no mouth

Sept. 15, 7 p.m.
The New Ruckus Composer Night

Oct. 14, 7 p.m.
The New Ruckus Composer Night

Oct. 28
crow with no mouth

Nov. 10, 7 p.m.
The New Ruckus Composer Night

Dec. 14, 7 p.m.
The New Ruckus Composer Night



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EVENT ARCHIVE

The Dream Songs Project
Nature Stories

Jan. 31, 2015
7:30 p.m. • $15/$10
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The Dream Songs Project presents its 3rd annual concert of new music for voice and guitar. 

This year, the concert includes the premiere of Randy Bauer's Nature Stories. The piece consists of 6 songs setting the poetry of Jules Renard that each depict an animal or insect (water flies, finch, snail, worm, hedgehog, and nanny goat). The music is clever, humorous, and full of imagery. 

Also on the program are three pieces that the Dream Songs Project selected from a call-for-scores competition in 2013. Sheila Forrester's Three Campion Songs revive the Renaissance lute song with some modern touches to set texts by Thomas Campion. Ultima Verba by Justin Rubin puts the poetry of last words to music. One Look Too Close is a five movement song cycle by Thomas Schuttenhelm that sets poetry of Theodore Roethke and intersperses songs with guitar instrumental interludes.

Also on the program is a lesser known treasure of the 20th Century by the Scottish composer Thea Musgrave, Five Love Songs. The texts are from various Renaissance poets, but the music is definitely not a lute song revival. 
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