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NewsProfessor Eric Moe's Composition Performed at Tenri Cultural Institute Eric Moe and (right) and Blair McMillen backstage at the Tenri Cultural Institute in New York City Virtuoso pianist Blair McMillen performed Professor of composition Eric Moe’s recent work Where Branched Thoughts Murmur in the Wind to what New York Times reporter Bernard Holland described as a standing room only crowd at the West Village’s Tenri Cultural Institute. The program, billed as “Power House Pianists,” featured pianists McMillen and Stephen Gosling. Along with Moe’s piece the two artists performed works by Chester Biscardi, Lee Hyla, Geoerge Tsonkatis, Annie Gosfield, Conlon Nancarrow, Joan Tower, Perry Townsend, David Rakowski, and Mischa Zupko. Another of Moe’s works will receive its premiere on November 14 in Pittsburgh when renowned pipa artist Wu Man performs The Sun Beats the Mountain Like a Drum, a work for pipa and electroacoustic sound commissioned for her by the Fromm Foundation. Moe’s new piece combines Wu Man’s playing with sampled sounds including snippets of bluesman Huddie Ledbetter (Leadbelly) and percussionist Michael Lipsey. |
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