In this 2nd of 3 adventures, you'll be amazed at some of the most unusual instruments created through the ages...and with the beautiful and sometimes bizarre music they produce. You'll get the rare opportunity to hear the very first musical works ever written specifically for music box: delicate melodies portraying the twelve signs of the zodiac. We'll show you a concerto for tap dancer; an entirely electronic orchestra; haunting medieval chant; an instrument that's played without even being touched; and a symphonic poem for 100 metronomes! Ben Franklin -- who, among his many talents, was also a musician -- will make an appearance too. Buckle your seat belts and prepare for a wild ride through a unique musical landscape that is truly weird -- and truly wonderful!
Cellist David Sims studied at the Indiana University and Yale schools of music and has performed at the Tanglewood and Waterloo festivals, as well as the North American New Music Festival in Buffalo, where he was also a faculty performer for the June in Buffalo young composer seminars. In January he was awarded an Alumni Ventures grant from the Yale School of Music allowing him to expand the scope of his music classes and offer them more widely throughout Connecticut.
