"Joie de vivre" by R. Michael Dougherty Live at the Berkeley Piano Club

Ensemble for These Times's first-ever Call for Scores for piano four hands. Featuring E4TT emerita pianist extraordinaire, Dale Tsang, joined by guests LaDene Otsuki and Ross McKee Foundation laureates Mehana Ellis and Letian Lei. Program notes: https://E4TT.org/summit.pdf More info: https://E4TT.org/summit.html Congratulations to the nine winning composers! In concert order: Michele Allegro: "Game Overture" Justin Levitt: "The Villains" Matt Browne: "Tennis for Two" Joshua Muetzel:"Cable Car Canter" Edna Alejandra Longoria: "Cuatro ritmos" ~Intermission~ Stephen McCarthy: "Potboiler" R. Michael Dougherty: Joie de vivre Sam Wu: "Hyperlooping" Kelly-Marie Murphy: "Prima-Goodman Fantasy" More about Ensemble for These Times: -Weekly interviews every Monday with BIPOC & women creative artists on all podcast channels "For Good Measure": https://www.e4tt.org/series.html -Subscribe to E4TT’s newsletter and stay updated on our upcoming concerts by emailing [email protected] -Facebook: / ensembleforthesetimes -Instagram: / e4tt -Website: http://www.e4tt.org/ The E4TT/RMF New Music Piano Summit is a collaboration with the Ross McKee Foundation. E4TT's 2025/26 season is sponsored, in part, by grants from the San Francisco Arts Commission and SF Grants for the Arts, supported in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency--learn more at www.arts.ca.gov--and funded in part by The Amphion Foundation, Inc. E4TT's 2025 Call for Scores Four Hands is part of a two-year collaboration with the Ross McKee Foundation. Ensemble for These Times is honored to be a fiscally sponsored affiliate of the InterMusic SF, a non-profit organization dedicated to small-ensemble music in the San Francisco Bay Area.