Event Concerts and Performances Conrad Tao, Piano & Caleb Teicher, Tap Dance

Date and Location

  • When: Friday, October 23, 2020

    8:00 pm - 10:00 pm EDT

  • This event will be livestreamed on Facebook External and YouTube External. It will be available for viewing afterwards in the Library's Event Videos collection.

  • Where: Online Only

Part of Concerts from the Library of Congress

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This not-to-be-missed evening is the product of a brilliant partnership of two rapidly rising stars. The admirable pianist and composer Conrad Tao is a Lincoln Center Emerging Artist who galvanized New York Philharmonic audiences as the soloist in his Everything Must Go. Caleb Teicher is Dance Magazine’s Best Emerging Choreographer, with compelling recent works cited in The New York Times rundown of Best Dance of 2018. Each earns raves for electric performances; together, they are astonishing in Counterpoints, a program of music and dance both composed and improvised. Dancing to J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations, “Teicher slaps the pallets with lightning speed, leaping from one to the other for contrast, matching Tao, note for accelerated note." (NPR Music). Teicher’s comment captures the essence of their collaboration: “…it's hard to sense where the music starts and the dancing ends, or where the dancing starts and the music ends. They're just one."
 
Program
 
“Counterpoint”
J.S. BACH
Goldberg Variations, selections, BWV 988
Sarabande from French Suite no. 5 in G major, BWV 816
 
GERSHWIN
Preludes
Rhapsody in Blue, arr. for solo piano
 
SCHOENBERG
Five Piano Pieces, op. 23
 
NOBLE/POWELL/TATUM
Cherokee
 
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