4:00 p.m., The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton
Tickets: $50/$45 adult; $25/$20 student
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, France became the compositional epicenter of chamber music written for wind instruments. The timbrally colorful combination of the instruments proved irresistible for many of France’s most compelling musical voices. Join these virtuosic wind players from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center as they explore this ravishing, and rarely heard, repertoire.
Maurice Emmanuel (1862–1938)
Sonata for Flute, Clarinet, and Piano, op. 11 (1907)
Yan Maresz (b. 1966)
Circumambulation for Flute (1993, rev. 1996)
Jean Françaix (1912–1997)
Wind Quintet (1948)
Jacques Ibert (1890–1962)
Trois pièces brèves for Wind Quintet (1930)
Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)
Sextet for Piano, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, and Horn (1932–1939)
Artists Alessio Bax, piano; Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; Stephen Taylor, oboe; David Shifrin, clarinet; Peter Kolkay, bassoon; William Purvis, horn
Here is the link that takes you to the site and the place to order tickets.
Click on that link above for the live streaming of his recital at 6:30 PST. How cool is that?! (Unfortunately I won’t be home, but if I can catch some of it on my iPhone I sure will!)
Break a leg, Cooper!
Featuring:
Cooper Wright, Oboe
Laura McIntyre – Bassoon
Drew Quiring – Piano/Harpsichord
Matthew Smith – Cello
Ashley Stahl – Flute
Allyson Wuenschel – Viola
Works by Loeffler, Telemann, Schumann, and Dutilleaux.
Contrary to one part of the article, I believe this concert is tonight, Monday, January 30. The church’s website has today’s date, as does the body of the article (which I’ve put in bold font just because I can).
Roger is a great player, and mighty nice guy too!
Mozart Birthday Concert
Mozart Birthday Concert at Edgehill United Methodist Church
When: Sun., Jan. 29, 7 p.m.
Pianist and Nashville Symphony English horn player Roger Wiesmeyer plays a lot of concerts, so we take notice when he calls the Mozart Birthday Benefit Concert at Edgehill United Methodist his favorite show of the year. The annual celebration, now in its 10th year, always draws a diverse crowd of activists and music lovers — founder and organizer Wiesmeyer calls it “an opportunity to marry the things that matter most to me: beautiful music and social justice.” Conductor Joseph Lee will lead a specially assembled orchestra Monday night in Mozart’s “Little” G-minor Symphony No. 25 and the “Gran Partita” Serenade for winds. Always exuberant Vanderbilt composer Michael Rose offers halftime commentary drawn from his recent book Audible Signs, and be sure to stay after the performance for cake and conversation. This year’s concert benefits Nashville Peacemakers, a youth outreach organization founded by Clemmie Greenlee, the Scene’s 2007 Nashvillian of the Year.
— Russell Johnston
I received this from the Janet Archibald. Hope some of you can make it (I’m working then, so can’t get there.)
Hi Everyone,
The days are getting shorter, the weather cooler and the holidays fast approaching, which means it’s also time for another Lowell Trio concert at the wonderful music club, Armando’s , 707 Marina Vista ave., in downtown Martinez!
Please join Janet Popesco Archibald, oboe & English Horn, Emil Miland, cello, & pianist Margaret Fondbertasse on Sunday December 18 , 4pm for our Winters’ Solstice program, featuring warm and wonderful music by composers both familiar and new.
Included are works by J. S. Bach, Manuel DeFalla and Michael Head & Margaret’s popular ‘guess the composer’ segment featuring yet another famous rock star’s attempt at composing a Classical style piece!
We hope to see you there,
Happy Holidays from the Lowell Trio!
I just received this from a reader … hope some of you can attend!
The Sunday concert will be free and for the students the ticket prices are $5 on Saturday. Also, on Sunday they will do “Instrument Petting Zoo” during the intermission, where musicians will take their instruments and talk about them to the audience members.
I didn’t want to post an email address or phone number on the blog without first getting permission, and I’m currently racing out the door for my morning walk, so please just contact me if you want the info, okay?
… yep … with Maestro Dudamel conducting. I don’t know that I’ve ever heard the LA Phil before, and I’ve always been interested in seeing Gustavo Dudamel conduct. In addition Janine Jansen, whom I’ve heard so much about, is soloing. They are playing this Sunday at 2:00 PST. I’m gonna be there.
In San Jose.
No, they aren’t actually playing in San Jose. But I’ll get to watch and hear them at CineArts at Santana Row. Nice! Here’s the info I received:
MEDIA ALERT ** MEDIA ALERT ** MEDIA ALERT
LA PHIL MUSIC DIRECTOR GUSTAVO DUDAMEL TO HOST FIRST LA PHIL LIVE PERFORMANCE OF THE 2011/12 SEASON
ALL-MENDELSSOHN CONCERT TO BE SIMULCAST IN MORE THAN 440 MOVIE THEATERS THROUGH NCM FATHOM
Concert Features Violinist Janine Jansen
LA PHIL LIVE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2011, AT 2 PM PACIFIC/5 PM EASTERN
WHAT:
The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s dynamic Music Director Gustavo Dudamel plays the dual role of conductor and host in the first LA Phil LIVE concert of the 2011/12 season to be broadcast live in select movie theaters throughout the U.S., Sunday, October 9, at 2 p.m. Pacific/5 p.m. Eastern. LA Phil LIVE: Dudamel conducts Mendelssohn, features Dutch violin virtuoso Janine Jansen performing Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, a work she has recorded to great acclaim. The all-Mendelssohn program also includes the Hebrides Overture and the “Scottish” Symphony – musical souvenirs of the composer’s 1829 vacation in Scotland and the Hebrides Islands. The broadcast includes the popular Backstage Pass features, with live behind-the-scenes interviews and exclusive rehearsal footage of the musicians.
The performance kicks off the second season of LA Phil LIVE, presented by the LA Phil and NCM Fathom.
Complete Program:
MENDELSSOHN Hebrides Overture
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 3, “Scottish”
WHO:
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC
GUSTAVO DUDAMEL, conductor/host
JANINE JANSEN, violin
For full artists’ biographies, please visit: www.laphil.com/
WHEN:
Sunday, October 9, 2011, at 2 p.m. Pacific/5 p.m. Eastern
WHERE:
WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL
111 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles
Broadcast to select movie theaters across the U.S.
HOW TO PURCHASE:
Tickets for LA Phil LIVE: Dudamel conducts Mendelssohn are available at participating theater box offices and online at www.fathomevents.com. For a complete list of theater locations and ticket prices, please visit the website (theaters and participants are subject to change). LA Phil LIVE will be shown in select movie theaters through NCM’s exclusive Digital Broadcast Network.
Part of me thinks, “You IDIOT! You have one day off — finally — what are you thinking?” But I think this might be a great way to spend my Sunday afternoon. I’ll let you know how it goes!
Symphony Silicon Valley, with the help of Target, is doing free concerts this weekend and next. Do check out all the info here. I’m playing English horn and a very small bit of third oboe this first weekend. For the July 30 concert I play all of one work: Ravel’s Bolero. For the second I play a wee bit more, but if you don’t listen carefully you just might miss me. It’s a rather easy job for me, but I’m delighted to be back at work! Or play. Or work—play. You decide!
And hey, there’s free ice cream at the Sunday, July 31 concert. For you. Not for me. (I don’t eat ice cream and the put a reed in my mouth. Bad idea!)
I’ll bring a camera and try to snap a few photos. Stay tuned!
Poland has organised a classical music festival in the capital this autumn, which will pack 70 concerts into a four-day period.
The “Szalone Dni Muzyki” (Crazy Day of Music) festival, will run from September 29 to October 2 in Warsaw, organisers said, featuring music by Brahms, Liszt, Mahler and Strauss.
“These are short concerts, each lasting around 50 minutes, with ticket prices that put them within the range of a broader public,” the festival’s French artistic director Rene Martin told reporters.
Tickets cost 10 zloty (2.50 euros, $3.60).
The festival, in its second year, is a spin-off of France’s “La Folle Journee”, held in the city of Nantes in Brittany, western France.
A total of 27,000 people attended the 2010 edition, but organisers are hoping to double that this year.
(I won’t mention that the “crazy day” is actually four days long. Nope. Not gonna mention that! Aren’t you glad?)
But I really do love this idea! All this music, four intense days. All affordable. Very cool!
Mark your calendars! (No orchestra there, though.)
On July 16th at 7pm, OSJ will return for a third year to perform at Santana Row, one of Silicon Valley’s premiere shopping destinations. One of the perks to this lovely venue is the opportunity to enjoy the performance while dining al fresco at one of the many restaurants encircling the Park Valencia stage. The Santana Row concierge also has a special treat lined up for passionate shoppers: from July 16-31, guests who spend $300 in a single day at Santana Row can receive two free tickets to Idomeneo (September 10-25 at the California Theatre in downtown San José).
Operamission presents the second performance of the Stravinsky and Schoenberg works tonight at 8:00 PM in New York. But I have a concert at 8:00 here in San Jose. Well heck no problem! I think I’ll “attend” their concert anyway! You, too, can watch and listen! Click here and you’ll be at the concert too!.
… my brother is playing, as is friend and clarinetist Cory, and flutist Maria, whom I met last year at the Così event … and of course Jennifer is conducting. Ah well. I’ll be playing here with SSV. But I will attempt to check out the videostream (see below) either live or later!
operamission presents:
SCHOENBERG and STRAVINSKY
Defining classics.
PIERROT LUNAIRE, 1912
L’HISTOIRE DU SOLDAT – THE SOLDIER’S TALE, 1918
featuring mezzo-soprano JENNIFER BERKEBILE in the Schoenberg
and in the Stravinsky:
JOHN CARLO PIERCE as the Narrator
RYAN ALLEN as the Devil
and CAMERON SMITH as the Soldier
instrumentalists:
DOUG BALLIETT
TIMOTHY EMERSON
ED GONZALES
MIKE GURFIELD
MARIA JOHNSON
GLORIA KIM
SEAN SCOT REED
CORY TIFFIN
PAUL WOLFRAM
MIALTIN ZHEZHA
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, June 3 & 4, 2011, 8:00 PM
$20 General Admission
presented by Neke Carson at the GERSHWIN HOTEL
7 E. 27th Street, New York, NY
just east of 5th Avenue
This is the final week of Symphony Silicon Valley. For me there are three rehearsals, two concerts and I play all of one work. Yep … 3 – 2 – 1! There was actually another rehearsal that I skipped, but that was by choice: I decided that I just couldn’t cancel students yet again on a Wednesday afternoon, so I opted to move down to third oboe, take that rehearsal off and, with permission of the principal, take off the Mendelssohn and have the sub play it instead, as it was the only thing being rehearsed in the afternoon. In addition to the Mendelssohn (which uses two oboes) we are doing a Piazzolla work which uses only one oboe. So again, it’s 3 – 2 – 1! I feel like I’m counting down to zero. And then I’ll be done. For too long.
I’ll have a couple end of July Target summer concerts, and I’ll play (only) one of the “Some Assembly Required” events put on by operamission in New York City (I was hoping to do two, but flights didn’t pan out for that, due to the large increase in cost if I moved dates around to make that happen). It appears Merola is out for me this year, which I’m sorry about; I really enjoy doing that. But I’m not first call there ‐ heck, I’m not even second call. So there you go.
I really wish I’d gotten into the summer music festival thing when I was younger. I probably say this every year, right? But I didn’t so oh well. Money is always tight in summer (most students take off a large chunk of it), but I suppose I should be used to it by now.
I think these symphony concerts should be fun for the listener. First on the program is the Piazzolla and it includes, appropriately, a bandoneon player. The work I’m playing in is by Avner Dorman and it’s a work for orchestra and percussion duo. It’s pretty darn amazing to watch those two musicians … you have to see them (as well as listen, of course!). And finally there’s the Mendelssohn … which, if you know the lyrics, begins “Spaghetti, spaghetti, spaghetti for lunch!” Okay, maybe not really, but I did used to have a book that put words to famous classical works. I wish I’d hung on to it. Rats!
Here’s some of the PIazzolla with the composer at the bandoneon. The picture isn’t great. Neither is the sound. BUT it’s Piazzolla playing it! So there you go …
If you want to watch the other videos there are two more that I’m sure you would easily find if you clicked on the video above and watched on YouTube instead.
I don’t see a video with our percussionists playing the Dorman (I believe they played it at the Cabrillo Festival last year), but here’s the first movement with the duo PercaDu:
And if you want a sample of the Mendelssohn … well … those are plentiful on YouTube!
I didn’t used to nap before concerts, but I sure do now. I solo tonight on Piazzolla’s Oblivion (and I play in the Tedesco as well). I think I need a bit of rest before I get ready for the concert. That’s what happens when you’re over 50, maybe? Or perhaps it’s just my somewhat low iron level that causes me to need them. Or … most likely … I’m just lazy and wimpy! Hmmm.
In case you didn’t see it earlier, here’s the info (if you click on the name of the group it takes you to their site):
CADENZÅ
Saturday May 28, 2011 @ 8pm
First Congregational Church
900 High Street, Santa Cruz
