A few of the composers from this season briefly share their reflections on The Patchwork Suite, along with pearls of wisdom and views on the power of art and music in general. To learn more about how to help support WGTE as a dedicated media station for the arts, visit https://www.wgte.org/support.

In this culminating episode, we listen to the complete season two suite, from the original 19th century lament theme by Madame Sidney Pratten to all ten modern reimaginings set forth by the composers this season.

In this Patchwork Suite special, Andrea Pereira de Almeida joins Mary Claire Murphy at WGTE to share her impressionistic paintings of Northwest Ohio, especially her Simpson Garden-inspired mural, A Bowling Green Sunset. Learn more at https://www.andreaalmeidaart.com/

Composer Indigo Knecht returns to the Patchwork Suite with a personal, fixed media impression of love as a grounding force in the face of depression; they liken the piece to Toledo’s Love Wall, where splashes of color bring life to a monochromatic framework.

With inspiration from poetry and from artwork by the muralist Jayoto, Thai composer Chawin Temsittichok crafts a musical streetscape collage of Bangkok, through which hear Madame Sidney Pratten’s lament emerge from a collection of found sounds.

In this Patchwork Suite variation, pianist and composer Jane Wong explores darker undercurrents of the human psyche by translating the palette of Mark Rothko’s “Black on Maroon” into swaths of sweeping episodes for cello and piano.

In this continuation of Episode 6, we take a brief intermission from our Season 2 musical variations and turn instead to a firsthand account of mural-making, according to Portland artists Alex Chiu and Jeremy Nichols. Learn more about their stories and artwork at https://www.artbyalexchiu.com/ and at https://www.plasticbirdie.com/

Breathe in the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest through this song without words, first sketched in 2016 as a cradle song by Mary Claire Murphy, and now fleshed out with inspiration from the Portland mural by Alex Chiu and Jeremy Nichols.

Piano prodigy and social media sensation BLKBOK reconnects with WGTE to narrate the creative process behind his Patchwork Suite variation, which invites us to investigate “who’s behind the white paint.”

In his Jazz-informed variation on the “Episode of Life” by Madame Sidney Pratten, Kyle Brooks looks to a Chicagoland mural of American entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., revealing to us a juxtaposition of Davis’ inner world and public persona.