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MUSIC THAT ROCKS
a concert by Chappell Kingsland (pianist, organist, vocalist)
with special guests Sarah Mellander (oboist, pianist) and Ben Kingsland (vocalist)

    First Unitarian Church of Denver
        1400 Lafayette St. - click here for directions
            Friday, Dec. 10  -  6:00 pm (note that the time has been changed)
                Free admission; donations appreciated

    Some say that rock 'n' roll was born in the U. S. A. in the 1950s, but countless musicians through the ages have known how to rock.  Come hear an assortment of music by German baroque organists, English prog-rock bands, Polish mystics, Swedish post-modern string quartets, unique American composer/bandleaders, operatic Broadway composer/conductors, eclectic Czech composers, and French impressionists.

         Praeludium in fis-moll  -  Dietrich Buxtehude
        "Something's Coming" from West Side Story  -  Stephen Sondheim / Leonard Bernstein
            with Ben Kingsland, vocalist and Sarah Mellander, oboist
        "Synd" from Parlor från svin 2  -  Fleshquartet
        "Poco allegro" from Concerto for Oboe  -  Bohuslav Martinu
            with Sarah Mellander, oboist
        "In Dulci Jubilo" from Orgelbüchlein  -  Johann Sebastian Bach
        "Heart of the Sunrise" from Fragile  -  Yes
            with Sarah Mellander, pianist and Ben Kingsland, vocalist

                            **intermission**

        "Shehérazade" from Masques  -  Karol Szymanowski
        "Pyramid Song" from Amnesiac  -  Radiohead
             with the audience adding atmospheric vocals and sounds
         "Une barque sur l'océan" from Miroirs  -  Maurice Ravel
         "Le monde dans l'attente du Saveur" from Symphonie-Passion  -  Marcel Dupré
        "Echidna's Arf (Of You)" from Roxy & Elsewhere  -  Frank Zappa
        "Ripples" from A Trick of the Tail  -  Genesis

                              all arrangements by Chappell Kingsland

     One of my main goals as a musician is to explore the connections between music from different cultures and eras.  The selections on this program are quite diverse in style and mood, but they all share a certain intensity, and they all rock, in their own ways.  Some of these songs and pieces are well-known, others fairly obscure, but all are fantastic compositions.  I encourage you to come hear for yourself...