October 23, 2015 at 7:30 p.m.
Join the popular Miller-Bangerter Piano Duo in an energetic performance of music evoking the dark, twisted and macabre. The program begins with the deceptively cheerful Arensky Suite no. 2, but the mood changes rapidly. Prepare to be terrified by original arrangements of Henry Cowell's "The Banshee", which is played by scraping the strings inside of the piano, and "Three Irish Tales", which is played with forearms as well as fingers. Saint-Saens' "Danse Macabre" is based on an old French legend that Death appears at midnight every year on Halloween. It is followed with a set of Jamaican pieces by Alexander Benjamin to lighten the mood. The recital concludes with the Idaho premiere of Liszt's 'Totentanz" or Dance of Death, arranged for two pianos by Andrey Kasparov.