According to an e-mail I just received from guitarist and composer Rusty Banks, he will be performing 4 p.m. Sunday at St. James Episcopal Church, at the corner of Duke and Orange streets in downtown Lancaster. The concert will be free; donations will be taken after the concert. He’ll be performing two of his own works, Hydrology (for guitar, boomboxes and temple bell) and Jim Walter No. 5, named for a mine in Alabama where two methane explosions killed 13 workers on Sept. 23, 2001, including a childhood friend of his father’s. He’ll also be performing Dorothy Hindman’s Needlepoint, Charle Norman Mason’s Mirrors Stones and Cotton, a piece that also involves electronics, and a very new collaboration with video artist Scott Conard.
I attended a concert Banks gave earlier this year, at which he performed Hydrology and Needlepoint, among other works. Hydrology, which he explained at the concert as “things I think about while fly-fishing” and in the e-mail as “a reflection on different behaviors of different stream columns, and their effects on trout and the fly angler,” was shimmering, meditative and compelling, as endlessly fascinating as its subject.
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Also happening on Sunday: the Art Lovers’ B&B Getaway and Open Houses. For every Sunday in April, Lancaster County bed-and-breakfast inns will be displaying art in their common rooms, with no admission fee. Hours are 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Here’s a list of participants.
