Music inspired by paintings is one of our main themes as we conclude our Earshot Jazz Festival coverage with Myra Melford’s Splash trio, named for Cy Twombly’s brash abstract canvases. We also check out DoYeon Kim, who brings a 25-string Korean gayageum to town for some unusual duets with trumpeter Cuong Vu. Ludovic Morlot returns to Seattle Symphony with the Northwest premiere of Samuel Adams’ No Such Spring, while Quinsin Nachoff updates the Third Stream lineage of hybrid compositions pioneered by Gunther Schuller, whose Seven Paul Klee Studies are contrasted with Peter Maxwell Davies’ Five Klee Pictures for the latter’s golden anniversary. George Crumb’s Dream Sequence gets its own 50th anniversary nod, its echoes reverberating in David Shea’s new Buddhist-themed electroacoustic anthology. A Beethoven-flecked New Year’s celebration by Denis Dufour rounds out the playlist. Creative and improvised from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell.
