Calliope's Call - Emily and Edna
2025-11-01 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | CA
The concert features winning art songs set to poetry by Emily Dickinson and Edna St. Vincent Millay. R. Michael Daugherty won with his submission of “Bee! I’m expecting you!” from A Wagtail Dance for soprano and piano.
I wrote this about the song cycle: “When bees return to the hive, they need to communicate the location of suitable flowers, such as clover, to the other members of the hive. They do so by “dancing’ in a figure-eight pattern.
Emily Dickinson’s bee poems personify the bees, making them seem like important characters whose exploits should be carefully observed. The cycle begins with a letter to a bee, with the piano part imitating an insect in flight.”

Joie de Vivre - Premiere
2026-03-01 15:00 - 17:00 | Berkeley Piano Club, 2724 Haste Street, Berkeley, CA, 94704, United States
Joie de Vivre for piano four hands will premiere at the
E4TT/RMF New Music Piano Summit
Ensemble for These Times emerita pianist extraordinaire Dale Tsang, joined by pianists LaDene Otsuki and Ross McKee Foundation laureates Mehana Ellis and Letian Lei performs works chosen from E4TT’s 2025 Call for Scores for piano four hands. A collaboration with the Ross McKee Foundation.
