MATTHEW RICKETTS, composer
THOMAS CABANISS, composer

This FREE pre-performance talk features two composers whose original works will be played at Screen Door. Matthew Ricketts, whose Songs for Judith will be featured in the closing concert, and Thomas Cabaniss, whose Tiny Bits of Outrageous Love (excerpts) will be a part of the Well-Being Concert, will discuss the pieces along with their lives and overall work.

Matthew, a Guggenheim fellow based in New York, set nine poems by Camden Poet Laureate Edna St Vincent Millay to music, creating Songs for Judith. Many Maine residents and tourists are familiar with the Pulitzer Prize winner’s statue perched atop Mount Battie in Camden Hills State Park. Thomas, familiar to Bay Chamber audiences from pieces featured in previous seasons, wrote Tiny Bits of Outrageous Love for his wife Deborah. The deeply personal piece is composed for “piano four hands,” in which two musicians play the same piano. Join Matthew and Thomas for what is sure to be a fascinating and lively conversation, followed by tea and cookies.

There will be a donation basket for those who would like to support Bay Chamber.