MostArts Festival "Sound Bites Sampler" presents Dennis James in “REVISITING THE ACCORDION: A Dilettante’s Redux”

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Take a break from your day and enjoy a box lunch or sweet dessert and a FREE concert featuring the MostArts Festival Musicians. These informal concerts are a festival favorite: Monday thru Friday at NOON in Holmes Auditorium of Harder Hall on the Alfred University campus.

Friday’s Chamber Concert features Dennis James in “REVISITING THE ACCORDION: A Dilettante’s Redux”

Guitarist, Brian Keeler will join Dennis for the silent film score to the 9 minute “Professeur de Tango” 1912 film starring Max Linder

The concert will also feature Lloyd Smith’s “Storm Echoes” for string trio and accordion……

from THE SARATOGIAN newspaper about the premier:
“It is probably an understatement to say that few composers today write serious chamber music featuring the accordion. And perhaps it’s an overstatement to categorize composer Lloyd Smith’s “Storm Echoes Suite” – for accordion and three strings – as serious music. “It’s purely a fun piece,”

Dennis James is a performing and recording musician with an international touring career as a concert organist, silent film score performer, composer, arranger, and a performer on rare instruments. He maintains a diverse repertoire, focused on specialties that utilize his unusual historical musical instrument collection. He was a Lecturer in Glass Music Studies at Rutgers University from 2011-2015 and has held numerous house-musician positions for U.S. and Canadian theatrical and educational organizations.