Program Notes

Possible Titles for Program Notes:

1) CLASSICAL MUSIC LOVES THE BLUES, 2) THE BLUES LOVES CLASSICAL MUSIC,  3) A BLUESMAN & CLASSICAL STRING QUARTET WALK INTO A BAR...  4) or just CORKY SIEGEL'S CHAMBER BLUES

Corky Siegel's Chamber Blues
Corky Siegel: blues harmonica, piano and vocal
Classical String Quartet
Jaime Gorgojo: violin
Chihsuan Yang: violin and Erhu
Rose Armbrust-Griffin: viola
Jocelyn Butler Shoulders: cello

Kalyan Pathak: Guest Tabla & Percussion

A sample of some of these works and others will be performed in random order and announced from the stage.   All Compositions, Orchestrations, words & music by Corky Siegel except where indicated*

Instrumentals:
Raw Umber - Op. 15
Slow Indigo - Op. 16
Complementary Colors - Op. 17
Counter Intuitive - Op. 24
Galloping Horseplay - (Traditional Chinese folk song.* blues style arrangement by C. Siegel)
Vocals:
Angel Food Cake
Idaho Potato
The Italian Shuffle
Goodby California - Orchestration by Katherine Hughes* & C. Siegel
One
No One’s Got Them Like I Do

Aunt Lila’s Suite (Op. 14, 15, 16, 17) was made possible by a grant from the Meet The Composer/Reader’s Digest Commissioning Program, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund.  Chamber Blues is partially supported by an award from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.

This concert is dedicated to Seiji Ozawa and his family, who offered me this art form, andmade Chamber Blues possible.  I owe them a great deal.  This concert is also dedicated to the great blues masters (who took me under their wing) and my dear friend and mentor, the late William Russo. - Corky Siegel

Corky Siegel uses Hohner harmonicas tuned and conditioned by Joe Filisko and Shure microphones.

CDs are available in the lobby as well as Corky’s book on artistic expression (a must read).

For Concert Schedule, Music Shop and more:   www.corkymusic.com

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CONTACT: Holly Siegel: Bookings Institute: Email holly@chamberblues.com Call 773-551-6141
Local contact for Corky Siegel and Chamber Blues, Dr. L. Subramaniam / Ambi Subramaniam