Esteemed American composer Terry Riley entered his 10th decade last year (he was born in 1935), and this founding giant of the minimalist movement is being celebrated by one of his most passionate advocates.
Berkeley-based pianist Sarah Cahill, who has commissioned multiple works from Riley and hosts the weekly “Revolutions Per Minute” radio show on KALW 91.7 FM, will devote two concerts of music by him and works written for him, beginning with her 7:30 performance Saturday at the Dresher Ensemble Studio at 2201 Poplar St. in Oakland.
Her second concert, which was rescheduled from one that got scuttled last December by the power outage in San Francisco, will take place at 2 p.m. May 24 in the Latino room on the lower level of the San Francisco Main Library at 100 Larkin St. Works on the program will include pieces from “Eighty Trips Around the Sun,” a four-CD set Cahill and two other pianists recorded nearly a decade ago in observance of Riley’s 80th birthday.
Find tickets to Saturday’s concert, $25, at dresherensemble.org. The May 24 program at the Main Library is free and open to the public.
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