Some belated thoughts on the May 2oth Music at First show: Margaret Lancaster (featured above in a video by Jon Williams) used the multifaceted space and her training as an actor and dancer to create a riveting performance. Communicating a furtive, skittish persona, Margaret started her set up in the organ loft for the first two pieces (by Paul Steenhuisen and Corey Dargel; I unfortunately missed these do to door duties!), and then scampered down to the front of the church, still in character, into a chair explosion of her own making. From here she performed Arthur Kampela’s hyperkinetic “Happy Days,” in which she squeaked and squealed in between lightning-fast melody fragments on the flute and piccolo.
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July 3, 2011
Music at First – Margaret Lancaster and Eric km Clark’s Deprivation Choir [VIDEO]
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