Recent Compositions by Monroe Golden
Performances by Donnie Ashworth (flute), Craig Hultgren (cello), Adam Bowles (piano), and Janet Elizabeth Simpson (voice).

What do prime numbers, wild turkey calls, Pythagoras, and Emily Dickinson have to do with a concert for flute, cello, and piano?  Come find out, when Adam, Craig, Donnie, and Janet perform microtonal music from Monroe's upcoming CD.  This will be a rare presentation from the historic ARTBURST Performance Series at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Birmingham.

Works on the program include Pinhoti (cello and media), 81 (piano), Reform (flute and media), 43 Commas (flute, piano, and media), Turkey Branch (media), Poems of Life and Bliss (voice, flute, cello, piano), and Whirl (flute, cello, media).  http://monroegolden.com for more information.

Sunday, August 29, 2010 at 4PM
Unitarian Universalist Church of Birmingham
4300 Hampton Heights Drive - Birmingham, AL
http://uucbham.org/location.shtml for directions

Sliding Scale Admission
Pay as befits your circumstances, $10 suggested donation

• This music has a way of prying open hidden rooms in your listening, which you didn’t know even existed. Golden teaches you something about hearing and about sound.  Ingvar Nordin - Sonoloco Record Reviews (Sweden)

• There is nothing about Golden's lovely, sumptuous, yet arcane music that fits snugly into any one category.  Phillip Ratliff - Birmingham Weekly

• these songs are remarkable in that you simply cannot stop listening to them. Almost hypnotic, they incrementally add to your reserve of patience and leave you hooked until the final note.  Barbara Anne - KZSU Zookeeper

• an intriguing and ultimately gripping experience for the listener with open ears, patience, and a taste for adventure.  Stephen Eddins - All Music Guide

• A composer unjustly not exactly in the mainstream who writes beautiful, meaningful music, I look forward to his next CD.  Andrew Violette - New Music Connoisseur