Artistic Fusion
ARIZONA GHOST STORIES
White Boots (2024)
Inspired by an Arizona Ghost Story from the Magma Mine in San Manuel. Artwork by James G. Davis.
Premeired by Stephen Cook at Oracle Center for the Arts on October 20, 2024.
The Red Ghost (2025)
Inspired by an Arizona Ghost story. Artwork by Vanessa Windes.
Premeired by Stephen Cook at Oracle Center for the Arts on March 2, 2025
SEA SHANTY!
The Oracle! A Sea Shanty for the High Desert (2025)
Inspired by the 'Sail Cart' by Artist Christopher Lucic.
Premeired by Stephen Cook at Oracle Center for the Arts on March 2, 2025
The Voyage of the Oracle (2025)
Including Stephen Cook's 'The Oracle Shanty' and his arrangements of Bermuda is Another World by Hubert Smith, Siempre en mi Corazón by Ernesto Lecuona, and En mi Viejo San Juan by Noel Estrada.
Premeired by Stephen Cook at Oracle Center for the Arts on March 2, 2025
PICTURING RACHMANINOFF
Printed Book/Recording & Live Concert Fusing Rachmaninoff's Etudes-Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 39 with poetry and painting.
Translations by Alyssa Gillespie
Performed/recited by Stephen Cook
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Balladen und Romanzen, Op. 75. Johannes Brahms.
Solo piano arrangement of vocal duets by Johannes Brahms.
Transcribed and performed by Stephen Cook
Op. 75, No. 1 'Edward'
Op. 75 No. 4 'Walpurgisnacht'
Premiered February 4, 2024 at Oracle Center for the Arts.
PICTURE RACHMANINOFF
One man show inspired by Sergei Rachmaninoff's Op. 39 Etudes-Tableaux.
Written by Paul Harvey, Jr.
Starring Stephen Cook and Paul Harvey, Jr.
RAVEL PHANTASMAGORIA
Piano music of Maurice Ravel presented with the poetry of Aloysius Bertrand and silent film footage.
Program
Preface: Pavane pour une infante défunte
Sonatine
Gaspard de la nuit
BRAHMSPHANTASIE
Live realization of Max Klinger's illustration book which was
inspired by the music of Johannes Brahms.
CELESTIAL CONCERT
Live performance featuring piano and the
astrophotography of Adam Block
MELODRAMAS
Music for narrator and piano
Franz Liszt- The Sorrowful Monk
Franz Liszt- Lenore
Robert Schumann- The Fugitives
Robert Schumann- The Heather Boy
Arthur Bergh- The Raven
Stephen Cook- White Boots