Pianist Ben Cosgrove Plays Music Inspired by Landscapes at Dewey Hall in Sheffield
The composer returns to the Berkshires with pieces from Topograph, his album about places where wind and water move the land.
Friday, November 13, 7pm | Sheffield, MA
Composer and pianist Ben Cosgrove plays Dewey Hall on Friday. The program draws on Topograph, his latest album, released in January. The album is 16 pieces inspired by processes that shape the land, such as water, wind, and erosion. Much of it was written during residencies and projects in places including the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge in Wisconsin, a peninsula in Washington, and a forest in northeastern Connecticut.
Cosgrove is a traveling musician whose music is about place. The Boston Globe called him “a sonic plein-air painter,” and he describes himself as a “geography nerd trapped in the body of a piano player.” He has performed in every U.S. state except Delaware, contributed music to the Ken Burns documentary The American Buffalo, and held residencies and fellowships with NASA, Acadia National Park, Harvard University, Middlebury College, and the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, among others.
Dewey Hall is a community arts space that has been in use since 1887.
Dewey Hall, 91 Main Street, Sheffield, MA. Tickets at deweyhall.org.
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