Pianist Blair McMillen in Concert - May 3, 2019
by Michelle Saport |
Pianist Blair McMillen in Concert Friday, May 3, 7:30 p.m. | Fine Arts Building, Recital Hall Tickets: ArtsUAA.com or 786-4849
An evening with pianist Blair McMillen is a program unlike anything Anchorage audiences have heard in recent past. His programs are innovative, exploring the unusual, quirky, provocative, traditional and non-traditional, reinventing-the-wheel approach to music and performance.
Blair is an excellent musician but also an expert performance artist. He has the capability of making all audience members - from novice to advanced, from engaged to the highly skeptical - completely reframe their context for a musical performance. This concert promises to be a real barn burner!
Program:
- Suite in E Minor (1724) // by Jean-Phillipe Rameau
- Selections from Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jésus (1946) // by Olivier Messiaen
- Preludes, Book I (1908) // Claude Debussy
- El Salón México (1938, arr. 1941) // A. Copland & L. Bernstein
- "Graceful Ghost Rag" (1970) & "The Serpent's Kiss" (1969) // William Bolcom
Tickets are available now at ArtsUAA.com.