Conrad Tao and Caleb Teicher 'Counterpoint'

Pianist Conrad Tao and dancer Caleb Teicher combine their individual artistry into a collaboration that drives the imagination and opens the heart for a unique Valentine’s Day performance.

The stylistically diverse music of Counterpoint includes the Aria from Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Art Tatum’s stride piano, Arnold Schoenberg’s ironic take on the Viennese waltz, a delicate miniature from Tao and Teicher’s More Forever, and threading it all together — Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.

PROGRAM

J.S. BACH: Aria from the Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

CONRAD TAO/CALEB TEICHER: “Swing 2” from More Forever

ARNOLD SCHOENBERG: Five Piano Pieces, Op. 23: V. Walzer

CHARLES “HONI” COLES & BRENDA BUFALINO: The Coles and Bufalino Soft Shoe

JOHANNES BRAHMS: Intermezzo in E Major, Op. 116/4

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART/DAVID PARKER: Song and Dance, based on Mozart’s Sonata in A major, K.331: III. Allegretto “Alla Turca”

NOBLE/POWELL/TATUM: Cherokee

MAURICE RAVEL: Sonatine II. Mouvement de Menuet

GEORGE GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue