Michael Kurth: Brick Teeth for double bass and piano

About the Composition Brick Teeth is a funky, rhythmically perplexing virtuosic piece for bass and piano, about 3 minutes long. Perfect for a recital encore, it features a Latin-inspired theme, artificial harmonics, percussive effects, and spans the entire range of the bass. It's an arrangement of a piece originally for string quartet, and a recording of that version can be found here. About the Composer Kurth has been a member of the Atlanta Symphony bass section since 1994.  Michael Kurth thinks most artist biographies are pretentious and boring, and feels a welcome sense of liberation, not to mention mischief, when writing about himself in the third person. He further believes that all artist biographies should include whether the artist prefers cats or dogs, or is ambivalent. He allows that there is room for ambivalence on this issue. Kurth prefers dogs. He also enjoys shrimp burritos, dive bars, road trips, thrift stores, found art, shiny pants, folk plumbing, collecting odd musi