Conrad Tao and Caleb Teicher

Pianist Conrad Tao and dancer Caleb Teicher combine their individual artistry into a collaboration that drives the imagination and opens the heart for a unique Valentine’s Day performance. The stylistically diverse music of Counterpoint includes the Aria from Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Art Tatum’s stride piano, Arnold Schoenberg’s ironic take on the Viennese waltz, a delicate miniature from Tao and Teicher’s More Forever, and threading it all together — Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.

NOTE: Due to the unique arrangement of the two performers on the stage, there will be no piano keyboard screen and the show will be on the open stage (not in the shell).

PROGRAM

J.S. BACH: Aria from the Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

CONRAD TAO/CALEB TEICHER: “Swing 2” from More Forever

ARNOLD SCHOENBERG: Five Piano Pieces, Op. 23: V. Walzer

CHARLES “HONI” COLES & BRENDA BUFALINO: The Coles and Bufalino Soft Shoe

JOHANNES BRAHMS: Intermezzo in E Major, Op. 116/4

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART/DAVID PARKER: Song and Dance, based on Mozart's Sonata in A major, K.331: III. Allegretto "Alla Turca"

NOBLE/POWELL/TATUM: Cherokee

MAURICE RAVEL: Sonatine II. Mouvement de Menuet

GEORGE GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue

The ENCORE program for this performance is available to READ ONLINE

Piano Series generously underwritten by Sven & Melinda Bitners and Sally Schaake Kincaid