Lake Heritage
by Zachary Good

November 3, 2024
7:00pm

Doors at 6:30pm

Tickets

$15 for General Admission, presale

$20 for General Admission at the door

$10 for Student (proof of ID will be requested at door) & Museum members

About Lake Heritage

Lake Heritage is an hour-long, ten-movement composition for four soprano clarinets in Bb by Chicago-based clarinetist and composer Zachary Good. For this performance, Zachary will be joined by three world-class clarinetists: Andy Hudson, Eric Mandat, and Gregory Oakes.

The piece extensively explores 65 unique dyad multiphonics—two-note “chords” akin to double stops on a violin, also referred to as “dyads.” These particular dyads are quiet, airy, and delicate, traversing various states of stability and audibility. On describing the piece, The Clarinet Journal (December 2023) writes “Lake Heritage murmurs through its [ten] movements with a quiet virtuosity, and is at once inaugural and benedictory: it exists in a kind of liminal tidal plane, like the sound of waves lapping the dock.” The musical material, texture, and flow of Lake Heritage are inspired by themes, characteristics, phases, and multiplicities of water. Here, multiphonics reflect the various liquid, vapor, and frozen states of water. Like light refraction in water, simple harmonies and counterpoint are complicated by the distinct multiphonic experiences of the four individuals. Dyads are passed, layered, trilled, or played in unison to create a slow rippling lake of sound.

Composed between 2019 and 2022, Lake Heritage was given its premiere on November 30th, 2022 at Constellation Chicago. This work celebrates the life of Zachary’s charismatic grandfather, Francis “Paco” Gracia, who passed away at the age of 102, exactly one month before its premiere. As IMSS documents and celebrates how humans have historically sought ways of healing and coping, Lake Heritage offers a meditative space for grieving, processing, and honoring the memory of those we have lost.

About the composer:

Zachary Good is a multifaceted clarinetist, chamber musician, and composer based in Chicago.

Zachary is the clarinetist of the sextet Eighth Blackbird, a clarinetist with Ensemble Dal Niente, and a member of Honestly Same, ZRL, and Mocrep. He has frequently performed with International Contemporary Ensemble, Music of the Baroque Chicago, and the puppet company Manual Cinema.

As a composer, Zachary explores contrapuntal possibilities on the soprano clarinet with small–interval multiphonics (“close dyads”), creating the illusion of multiple clarinetists playing simultaneously. His music is quietly virtuosic, inspired by the intricacies of the clarinet and a love for Baroque nuance and form. Zachary’s compositions and intersecting multiphonic research were the focus of his dissertation at Northwestern University called “Add Dye: Dyadic Perspectives on Close Dyad Multiphonics for the Soprano Clarinet.” zacharygood.com

For more information on Zachary and his music, check out this recent interview he did for Comfort Station Chicago:

https://comfortstationlogansquare.org/features-blog/2024/5/8/interview-zachary-good

Lake Heritage (2019-2022) will be performed by:

Zachary Good, clarinet

Andy Hudson, clarinet

Eric P. Mandat, clarinet

Gregory Oakes, clarinet

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