Float Like A Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee! Left Jab. Right Cross. Hook. Uppercut. Where is the next blow coming from? You won’t know until it hits you. And yes, we fight dirty. Do you have what it takes to enter the ring? Your opponent: one flute, one clarinet, one soprano, one viola, three cellos, five violins, and all kinds of chamber music. WWCMF’s annual Collage performances will take place at the ultra-hip Charles Smith Wines Tasting Room in Downtown Walla Walla this year. That means music from five stages (four on the floor, and one above). The wide variety of music will only be matched by the extensive collection of wines available by the glass and bottle. It will be a knockout!

What’s the fighting all about? (Or, what is Collage?)

While past performances have been compared to Paella and Molten Chocolate Cake, it appears that such gustatory comparisons have given way to pugilism. Collage is a style of performing in which varied musical styles are performed continuously and seamlessly without pause from multiple locations in and around the audience. In this way, music from antiquity rubs elbows with “wet ink” compositions in a way that keeps the audience guessing throughout. The performance unfolds in two sets with an intermission in between. Once the music begins, there are no pauses to applaud or to catch your breath. Each set becomes its own truly unique piece of amalgamated chamber music, never to be repeated in any setting ever again. Tallis, Debussy, and Tan Dun? Why not. Beethoven, Carter and Pink Floyd? Done. Anything is fair game!

Artists: Sarah Brady, Timothy Christie, Jennifer Goltz-Taylor, Andrew Jennings, Norbert Lewandowski, Christina McGann, Stephen Miahky, Philip Payton, David Requiro, Maria Sampen, Kevin Schempf, and Meta Weiss