This dynamic interplay of piano and tap dance features pianist-composer Conrad Tao, who has been dubbed “the kind of musician who is shaping the future of classical music” by New York Magazine, and choreographer-dancer Caleb Teicher, about whom The New Yorker says: “mixing super-charged energy with tossed-off charm, Teicher is among the more promising figures in tap dance.” The pair come from two art forms, each with its own traditions and practices, but their collaboration explores the connections between them and the different ways the percussion of piano and tap relate to one another.

Program

Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 998: Aria
Conrad Tao/Caleb Teicher: Improvisation
Arnold Schoenberg: Fünf Klavierstücke, Op. 23: V. Waltzer
Ray Noble/Art Tatum/Bud Powell: Cherokee
Charles Cole/Brenda Bufalino: The Coles and Bufalino Soft Shoe
Johannes Brahms: Fantasias: Intermezzo in E Major, Op. 116, No. 4
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart/David Parker: Song and Dance, based on Allegretto “Alla Turca” from Sonata in A Major, K. 331
Conrad Tao/Caleb Teicher: Swing 2 from More Forever
George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue arr. for solo piano
Maurice Ravel: Mouvement de menuet from Sonatine in F-sharp Minor
Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 998: Aria