Michael Miles & Jill Kaeding - A Salon Concert @ Schweikher House

645 Meacham Road,Schaumburg IL 60193

06 November, 2022

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Join us for an intimate indoor banjo and cello performance of Bach's Cello Suites in the living room of the historic Schweikher House, brought to you by Modern Illinois, helping people buy and sell mid-century modern and other architecturally significant properties. Doors open 2:30, performance at 3pm. Light refreshments will be served. American Bach - In a daring collaboration, Miles and Kaeding combine decades of musicianship to breathe new life into J.S. Bach’s Cello Suites. Miles puts the original cello melody on the banjo and Kaeding plays her cello adaptation of a contrapuntal continuo accompaniment originally composed by Margaret James for double bass. Sound impossible? Perhaps. But this is consistent with Bach’s brazen imagination. And when Miles debuted this concept for the first time in 1997, it was warmly embraced by artists, critics and one of the world’s greatest living cellists, Janos Starker. Jill Kaeding has played throughout the classical world and with the likes of Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles. Michael Miles is a world renowned musician, whose work has endorsements from Bela Fleck, Pete Seeger, & Dave Brubeck. "Miles has dared to take on some of the most dramatic and profound music ever written…and succeeded” - Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune "A remarkable feat…my first reaction to his playing was a smile and then ." -Janos Starker (1924-2013) “Thanks for the music you make.” -Yo-Yo M