Kemper Unplugged
Take a break in your day to hear Washington University faculty and students from the Department of Music, Arts & Sciences, in intimate chamber music and acoustic solo performances surrounded by art in the permanent collection and special exhibition galleries. These 45-minute concerts are free and open to the public.
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Featuring solo works for flute and clarinet, this program will include music about tricksters, the expression between space and time, South American butterflies, the meaning of home in crisis, and the complicated relationship with patriotism. These works by Loggins-Hull, Coleman, Debussy, Fukushima, and Osbourne are framed by selections from the groundbreaking twelve fantasias for solo flute by Telemann.
Program:
Rhapsody for clarinet, 1952 by Willson Osbourne
Eric Miao, clarinet
Fantasia in C Major (1732-33) by Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Elizabeth Chen, flute
Mei (1962) by Kazuo Fukushima (b. 1930)
Jason Tung, flute
Fantasia in a minor by Telemann
Priya Ramotar, flute
Syrinx (1913) by Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Lillie Kang, flute
Danza de la Mariposa (2011) by Valerie Coleman
Jimin Lee, flute
Fantasia in E minor by Telemann
Dalia Heller, flute
Homeland (2018) by Allison Loggins-Hull (b. 1982)
Lillie Kang, flute
The musicians will perform in front of this work: Kehinde Wiley (American, b. 1977), "Portrait of Mickalene Thomas, the Coyote," 2017. Oil on canvas, 120 x 84 in. © Kehinde Wiley. Courtesy of Sean Kelly, New York.