56x54 #1 (Berkeley Piano Club, October 30, 2017/ Preview, Laney College, October 27)

"OK, so what’s up for number one? Will it live up to the organization’s creed of “bringing new, nearly new, forbidden, and forgotten music to light?” (Janos Gereben, SFCV.org, Oct.23, 2016)

World Premieres
• Bruce Nalezny, "Toccata" (dedicated to Dale Tsang, not part of 56x54)

U.S. Premieres
• Bartosz Smoragiewicz, Bagatelles, #3-5 (cello)
  


West Coast Premieres
• Roger Ames, "Summer Sang in Me" #1,2 (soprano,cello,piano)
• Naftali Schindler, Sonetti di Petrarca, #4 (soprano, piano)
• Bartosz Smoragiewicz, Bagatelles, #1-2 (cello)



and...


• Emily Doolittle Minute Etudes Book II (piano)



• Christopher Hopkins, Sonata of the Seaven Teares (cello, piano)


• Justin Merritt, , Three Prophecies, #3 (soprano, cello)



• Bob Siebert, Listen, Hear the Sea (cello, piano)