{"id":7950,"date":"2025-09-28T18:42:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T18:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/?post_type=mec-events&#038;p=7950"},"modified":"2025-09-28T18:42:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T18:42:46","slug":"duo-amie-concert-moulin-rouge-a-love-story-in-music-reimagined-for-cello-piano","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/events\/duo-amie-concert-moulin-rouge-a-love-story-in-music-reimagined-for-cello-piano\/","title":{"rendered":"Duo Amie Concert: \u201cMoulin Rouge, A Love Story in Music, Reimagined for Cello &#038; Piano\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Sunday, October 26, at 2pm, come to the West Tisbury Library for a concert presented by Duo Amie. Free and open to the public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Praised for their &#8220;brilliant virtuosity and evocative musicality\u201d, Duo Amie (Julie Reimann cello &amp; Ellyses Kuan piano) returns to the library to perform \u2018Moulin Rouge\u2019, a program of music adapting the riveting story from the movie musical \u2018Moulin Rouge\u2019, to cello &amp; piano. As in the movie, which weaves together popular and original songs, Duo Amie will blend iconic pieces from the classical music and cello\/piano repertoire with several original pieces created for them, to tell the story of Moulin Rouge with cello and piano. The program will include classics such as Faur\u00e9\u2019s Elegy and Apr\u00e8s un r\u00eave, Elgar\u2019s Salut d\u2019Amour, Verdi\u2019s Libiamo ne&#8217; lieti calici from La Traviata, Piazzolla\u2019s Oblivion, Massenet\u2019s Thais Meditation, Poulenc\u2019s Les Chemin de L\u2019Amour and Popper\u2019s Hungarian Rhapsody, as well as a newly commissioned work by Berklee College of Music Composer Francine Trester and newly created arrangements by the duo, including Florence Price\u2019s Heart of a Woman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reimann and Kuan are world-class trained musicians who have performed nationally and internationally. They founded Duo Amie in 2015 to bring people together through the beauty and universality of music. Equally at home in classical, contemporary, and popular music forms, Duo Amie has been praised for its virtuosity, expressivity, and engaging presence (www.duoamie.org). They can be heard on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, SoundCloud, and YouTube.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, October 26, at 2pm, come to the West Tisbury Library for a concert presented by Duo Amie. Free and open to the public. Praised for their &#8220;brilliant virtuosity and evocative musicality\u201d, Duo Amie (Julie Reimann cello &amp; Ellyses Kuan piano) returns to the library to perform \u2018Moulin Rouge\u2019, a program of music adapting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[],"class_list":["post-7950","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/7950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7950"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=7950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}