I'm playing in the mix on Friday, May 27. Program starts at 7:30PM.

The piano should be a very good one. Not sure yet whether I get to play a Fazioli, Schimmel or Bosendorfer, but playing any of the three would be “a good thing, indeed”.

I will join some local (to Raleigh) singers in the following program. Please say "hi" if you decide to come hear me, and do let me know our Piano World" connection.

Eric Hale, baritone
Catherine Hamner, piano

• I want what I want when I want it” from Mlle. Modiste, lyrics by Henry Blossom and music by Victor Herbert

Andrew Kraus, piano

• Transcription of The Star Spangled Banner by Leopold Godowsky
• Nocturne – Transcription of Chopin Op. 10, #7 by Leopold Godowsky
• Concert Transcription of “Bess, you is my woman now” by David Saperton after George Gershwin
• Si oiseau j’étais by Adolf von Henselt
• Liebeslied by Franz Liszt after Robert Schumann
• Papillon by Moriz Rosenthal
• Songs My Mother Used to Sing by Edouard Schütt after Antonín Dvořák
• Valse a la bien aimee by Edouard Schütt
• Lezginka by Sergei Liapunov

The Avante Octet

• Colleen Rohlf – soprano
• Lacey Burt – soprano
• Jenn Myers – alto
• Kimberly Slentz-Kesler – alto
• Bradley Naylor – tenor
• Kevin Badanes – tenor
• Bob Slentz-Kesler – baritone
• Bill Adams – bass

• Selections from Illusions by Kevin Badanes
  • “Ready”, performed by Lacey Burt
  • “Loving the Shadow” performed by Lacey Burt and Colleen Rohlf
  • “If We Believe” performed by Kevin Badanes
  • “Marlin’s Diary” performed by Avante
  • “You’re Not Special and You’re Not Different” performed by Avante
  • Fool on The Hill arr. Jonathon Rathbone
  • Cells, Planets arr. Vince Peterson
  • Country Dances by Ward Swingle