Concert Truck – Lake City Farmers Market – 22 June 2023
The full description of this gig is the Seattle Chamber Music Society Concert Truck. Technically, the locale of the gig was Albert Davis Park. For the various four-hands piano works Luby and Zhang switched positions on the bench (benches?), alternating between foreground and background; it created a sketch format dilemma that was left essentially unresolved, hopefully not misleading (watch that other hand, Nick!). The program was superlative; equally revealing were Debussy’s cello sonata, to my ears more proto-jazz than strictly classical, and Meredith Monk’s four-hand “Ellis Island” (I’m not really familiar with her extensive oeuvre). Also some Stravinsky and Piazzolla, what’s not to love? And then there was the improv: four notes called out from the audience, Luby, Yoshinaga, and Baltacigil took them and gave us an impromptu fun ride!
Efe Baltacigil
Mari Yoshinaga