ROOM OF KEYS at The nanoSTAGE

In Room of Keys, David James Brock adapts Bela Bartok’s opera, Bluebeard’s Castle with music from Bartok and original compositions by Adam Sherkin. The play explores a man discovering his father’s secret and abandoned music shop. Once there, their shared history unravels through seven memories and instruments – from a child's toy to a Bösendorfer Grand – where the music is not always beautiful.

Room of Keys, by David James Brock

Starring Adam Sherkin, pianist and actor

Directed by Tom Diamond

RECITAL PROGRAMME (Bartok's Opera-adjacent works for solo piano):

Allegro Barbaro, BB 63 (Sz. 49, composed 1911)

From: Seven Sketches, Op. 9b; BB 54 ("Vázlatok," Sz. 44, composed 1908-10) No. 5 Romanian Folk Melody and No. 3 Lento

Romanian Dance, Op. 8a, No. 1: Allegro vivace (composed 1910)

Four Dirges, Op. 9a, BB 58 (Sz. 45, composed 1909-10)

Three Burlesques, Op. 8c, BB 55 (Sz. 47, composed 1908-11)

by Béla Bartók (1881 - 1945)

Allegro Benevolo (After Bartok), Op. 45* by Adam Sherkin (b. 1982)

*World premiere

Seating is limited to 30 seats per show so please purchase tickets in advance as is possible.

A few more details:

1. No dress code in effect
2. Begins promptly at 8pm; end promptly at 9pm
3. Complimentary bar (beer, wine and cider)
4. Performance is ca. 50 minutes, with no intermission
5. All seats are the same price at $25. If you are able, please donate to Piano Lunaire Inc. as this series is entirely for-profit and not funded by any public sources to-date

DOORS: 7:30 PM SHOW: 8:00 PM END: 9:00 PM

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