Mona Seghatoleslami is the host of WXXI ‘s Classical 4-7 PM slot. She also hosts the lunchtime concert series at Hochstein. On top of that she books the bans at the Little Café. The WXXI site says “Mona works on any project she can find that helps connect people and music in our community. We asked Mona if she could recommend someone to tune our piano. The piano came from Peggi’s parents and we have only had it tuned once since we moved here. Jaffe, the Colorblind James/Fugs keyboardist took care of that one. Mona recommended Gene Baker, a composer new to the area. Now we are recommending him.
With new life in the upright Peggi has been refreshing her reading skills, concentrating on the left hand, low register parts as she reads. I’ve been listening to her slowly work through the Alec Wilder songbook with enough space between chords to make it sound like Morton Feldman’s “For Philip Guston.”
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I think that glaring portrait may fuel the tone of composition & performance.