SONG SAMPLER
Video footage of Duo LiveOak concerts 2010-2012 in Mexico, the Faroe Islands and NYC. Nancy Knowles, mezzosoprano and Frank Wallace, composer/guitarist perform new works by Wallace.
SELECTIONS FROM BESTIARY ‚ VOICES AND GUITAR
The performance was April 11, 2008 at Cal State Fullerton. Bestiary was conceived as a light, comic moment to end our concerts with. The texts are tongue-in-cheek commentaries on the lifestyles and characteristics of animals by Theodore Roethke and Nancy Knowles. You will hear a touch of Broadway from the Bear, bluesy dissonance from the Snake and wild rhythms and wailing cries from the Serpent.
NANCY KNOWLES SINGS WOMAN OF THE WATER IN THE FAROE ISLANDS
PART 2 | PART 3 | PART 4 | PART 5
Duo LiveOak participated in the 2011 Summartónar Festival of Contemporary Music. This is the first of five installments of nine songs called Woman of the Water written by Frank Wallace and performed by Nancy Knowles and the composer. Originally for ten-course lute, it is played on a Stephan Connor ten-string guitar in a concert that took place at Nordic House in Tórshavn in June, 2011.
SYZYGY — SONGS FOR VOICE AND GUITAR
PART 2 | PART 3 | PART 4 | PART 5
Syzygy, sixteen songs for mezzo-soprano and guitar, op. 39 by Frank Wallace, poems by Nancy Knowles, is published by Gyre Music www.gyremusic.com. It was written in the winter of 2006 for Knowles’ one-woman show called Luna, an inspiring look at the healing power of art through the story of her mother, an artist who survived multiple tragedies, painting her way well into her nineties.
RECORDING EPITAFIO A UN PÁJARO IN MEXICO, 2011
Duo LiveOak (Nancy Knowles, mezzosoprano and composer/guitarist Frank Wallace) recording Wallace’s composition Epitafio a un Pájaro with guest artists Nury Ulate, flute and David Mozqueda, guitar. Recording by Pablo Garibay, filming and photography by Mateo Barreiro. Includes footage of the concert that night at the Cuerdas y Canto Festival in Toluca Mexico.
DUO LIVEOAK PERFORMING GOODNIGHT, GOODBYE IN 2010
Duo LiveOak (Nancy Knowles, mezzosoprano, Frank Wallace, composer, 10-string guitar) in concert, performing Goodnight, Goodbye, the first song in Wallace’s song cycle The Chimes, set to texts by Charles Dickens. 10-string guitar by Stephan Connor