Da Capo Chamber Players celebrates Joan Tower at 85

Joan Tower — Big Sky (2000)
Joan Tower — Breakfast Rhythms (1974)
Joan Tower — Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No. 5 (1993)
Joan Tower — Into the Night (2022)
Erica Lindsay — Selected works (new work / world premiere)
Erica Lindsay — Transmutation Variations
John Boggs — Descending the Catskills (2019 / NY premiere)

The Da Capo Chamber Players honor composer Joan Tower at age 85 with a program spanning five decades of her chamber works. In addition to Tower’s music, the concert includes world premieres of works written by two of Tower’s associates, John Boggs and Erica Lindsay.

Tower (born September 6, 1938) was a founding member of the groundbreaking ensemble, served as its pianist from 1970 to 1985, and continues to have a close association with Da Capo. “Joan’s inspiration not only helped launch this amazing group, she has also written numerous major works for us which have become classics in the field,” said Patricia Spencer, curator of this concert and founding member of Da Capo.

Da Capo Chamber Players commissioned Erica Lindsay, recent winner of a Chamber Music America New Jazz Works award and a colleague of Tower’s at Bard College, to compose a new work for the occasion. Also receiving a premiere on this concert is a quintet written for Tower and Da Capo by John Boggs, former student of the composer, now a teacher of piano and voice in Colorado.

Tickets available online or at the door.