Pianist Conrad Tao and dancer Caleb Teicher dazzle audience at La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest
Pianist Conrad Tao and tap dancer Caleb Teicher collaborate in “Synergy: Counterpoint II” at La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest on Friday, Aug. 16. On Friday, the La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest took an unusual turn with a program called “Synergy: Counterpoint II” that brought tap dancer Caleb Teicher on stage with pianist Conrad Tao, at times assisted by a string quartet.
The highlight of the new material was the aforementioned arrangement of “Figaro.” Tao was inspired by musicologist Wye Jamison Allanbrook, who argued that Mozart used dance forms in his operas which provided information about his characters. The additional musicians were Blake Pouliot and Rebecca Benjamin on violin; Matthew Lipman, viola; and Paul Wiancko, cello. Tao and the quartet were splendid, and with Teicher’s limber dancing, 19 minutes zipped by, every phrase and gesture a delight.
A selection of dances from Bernstein’s “West Side Story” brought the string quartet back on stage in the second half . Tao’s arrangements were effective, the musicianship superb, with Teicher’s dancing nicely complementary.
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