Frank Wallace


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Composer/performer Frank Wallace on things artistic, musical, poetic, coming events and personalities. Frank is co-curator of Second Sundays Guitar Series, Roger Smith Hotel, NYC and directs Festival 21 in Boston, a celebration of all that is new in the world of classical guitar.
November 4

Adam Wallace and Brian Simpson from @rshotel speak @140conf: It’s all about the people.  This my son speaking at the Kodak Center in LA.

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November 2
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Deep Autumn is a new work for English horn and guitar - finished today, Oct 31, 2009 - written for Richard Kravchak and Scott Morris, both professors at UC Dominguez Hills.. This is a midi version of the Finale project. The first movement is original for this project, the five other sections are arrangements of songs from The Great Deep.  Most have some ornamentation added and a few rhythm changes. The last has extensive additions.

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November 1
Dan Acsadi, Gabriel Bianco and Grisha Goryachev after Gabriel’s stunning concert for the BCGS.

Dan Acsadi, Gabriel Bianco and Grisha Goryachev after Gabriel’s stunning concert for the BCGS.

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October 31

Bianco plays Bach, Sor, Schubert - see you there

Gabriel’s Boston Program
Sunday, November 1st, 3PM
Gordon Chapel
Old South Church
645 Boylston St
Boston, MA 02116
FREE
Green Line Copley St.
discount parking at 100 Clarendon Garage
Reservations recommended atwww.itsmyseat.com

SOR: Variations on a Theme of Mozart, op. 9
SCHUBERT: Praise of Tears, D. 711, arr. JK Mertz
JS BACH: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003
JS BACH: Violin Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005
TURINA: Hommage a Tarrega
REGONDI: Introduction and Caprice, op. 23

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October 29

Debil del Alba recording

I’m thrilled that my sojourn in Mexico created some real interest in my music.  Carlos Rivero Campero, a young student of composer/guitarist Ernesto García de León will record my piece Debil del Alba.  Argentis Duo will perform my duos Sketches for Two in Italy later this fall.  Many others have requested scores and plan to perform my works.

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October 20

BCGS presents GFA winner Bianco for FREE!

TICKETS FREE! Please make reservations online at www.itsmyseat.com/bcgs.html

I’m writing for the BCGS to let you know about a great opportunity.  Due to a very complex and frustrating immigration issue for 2008 GFA winner Gabriel Bianco, the BCGS has decided to present his concert on November 1 as a FREE event. It’s a great time to bring your students and folks who would normally be shy of high ticket prices, Boston, or even classical music to hear a world-class musician.

We strongly advise that you make reservations online - this is the only way to make sure you will have seats. Please spread the word and make your reservations today! More info below.

Frank Wallace
Member, Board of Directors, BCGS
http://www.bostonguitar.info/performers/09_gabrielbianco.html

Reservations online at www.itsmyseat.com/bcgs.html, or send ticket request to BCGS, P.O. Box 470665, Brookline, MA 02447 with your email to receive confirmation. Must be received one day prior to event. Seating cannot be guaranteed without reservation. Information: (313) 529 0750.

Sunday, November 1, 3:00pm, 2009 
Gordon Chapel, Old South Church, 645 Boylston St., Boston
Easily accessible at the Copley Greenline stop; discount parking at 100 Clarendon Garage map and discount parking info

“Frenchman Gabriel BIANCO is one of the biggest talents of the classic guitar scene… the “Glenn Gould” of the guitar…” GEVELSBERBER RUNDSCHAU, March 25, 2009 - GERMANY gabrielbianco.online.fr/

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October 19
“…there could be no better introduction to the Latin American classical guitar.” Micaela Kramer, Classical Guitar Magazine I met Alberto J. Rodríguez-Ortiz earlier this month at a new music festival in Mexico.  He’s a fabuous human being as well as guitarist and composer.  So I’m thrilled to announce he will play for Second Sundays Classical Guitar Series at the Roger Smith Hotel at 4pm on November 8; 501 Lexington Ave.  Alberto is among the most active contemporary interpreters and composers of the new generation of Puerto Rican musicians. Among various international festivals Rodríguez-Ortiz has participated are the Festival Pa´Lo escrito (Mexico City, 2009, 2008), Festival Casals (Puerto Rico, 2008), Fiesta Iberoamericana de las Artes (Puerto Rico, 2007), Festival de Música Contemporánea and Foro de Compositores del Caribe (La Habana, Cuba, 2006 and 2004); International Guitar Festival of Puerto Rico (2000), El Salvador’s International Festival of Contemporary Music (2000); María Escalón de Núñez’s Guitar Festival (El Salvador 2000), Second Twentieth Century Music Festival (San Juan, Puerto Rico 1999). That same year he opened the concert series “Caras Nuevas”, sponsored by FAMA.  In 1997, he was invited as composer in residence at The Rome Festival.  Rodríguez-Ortiz has also performed in cities such as London, Porto, Paris, Vienna, Morelia, Orlando, Miami and New York.  In this last city, he made his debut in 1997 as part of the series “Música de Cámara, Inc.” He has performed extensively with the guitar trio “Matices”, ensemble that received the first prize at Puerto Rico’s Chamber Music Festival in 1994 with his composition “Invocando a Yúcahu”.  He has been soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra of El Salvador and the Symphony Orchestra of Bayamón. His program is fascinating! Sólo entre Bach y yo Sonata no. 2*           Alberto Rodríguez Ortiz Intro (Íntimo-Allegro) Canción nocturna Allegro violento Partita II para violín BWV 1004           Johann Sebastian Bach  (1685-1750) Allemanda                                                  arr. Alberto Rodríguez Ortiz Corrente Sarabanda Giga Ciaccona Intermedio Preludio, Fuga y Allegro  BWV 998          Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)Sonata no. 3 “Homenaje a la Sonora Ponceña y a Bach”*                  Alberto Rodríguez Ortiz Adagio rítmico “Preludio en candela” Scherzo (Presto) “Canción en gavota” Aire y fuga…al fogón * NYC premier

“…there could be no better introduction to the Latin American classical guitar.” 

Micaela Kramer, Classical Guitar Magazine

I met Alberto J. Rodríguez-Ortiz earlier this month at a new music festival in Mexico.  He’s a fabuous human being as well as guitarist and composer.  So I’m thrilled to announce he will play for Second Sundays Classical Guitar Series at the Roger Smith Hotel at 4pm on November 8; 501 Lexington Ave.  Alberto is among the most active contemporary interpreters and composers of the new generation of Puerto Rican musicians.

Among various international festivals Rodríguez-Ortiz has participated are the Festival Pa´Lo escrito (Mexico City, 2009, 2008), Festival Casals (Puerto Rico, 2008), Fiesta Iberoamericana de las Artes (Puerto Rico, 2007), Festival de Música Contemporánea and Foro de Compositores del Caribe (La Habana, Cuba, 2006 and 2004); International Guitar Festival of Puerto Rico (2000), El Salvador’s International Festival of Contemporary Music (2000); María Escalón de Núñez’s Guitar Festival (El Salvador 2000), Second Twentieth Century Music Festival (San Juan, Puerto Rico 1999). That same year he opened the concert series “Caras Nuevas”, sponsored by FAMA.  In 1997, he was invited as composer in residence at The Rome Festival.  Rodríguez-Ortiz has also performed in cities such as London, Porto, Paris, Vienna, Morelia, Orlando, Miami and New York.  In this last city, he made his debut in 1997 as part of the series “Música de Cámara, Inc.” He has performed extensively with the guitar trio “Matices”, ensemble that received the first prize at Puerto Rico’s Chamber Music Festival in 1994 with his composition “Invocando a Yúcahu”.  He has been soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra of El Salvador and the Symphony Orchestra of Bayamón.

His program is fascinating!

Sólo entre Bach y yo

Sonata no. 2*           Alberto Rodríguez Ortiz
Intro (Íntimo-Allegro)
Canción nocturna
Allegro violento

Partita II para violín BWV 1004           Johann Sebastian Bach  (1685-1750)
Allemanda                                                  arr. Alberto Rodríguez Ortiz
Corrente
Sarabanda
Giga
Ciaccona

Intermedio

Preludio, Fuga y Allegro  BWV 998          Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Sonata no. 3 “Homenaje a la Sonora Ponceña y a Bach”*                  Alberto Rodríguez Ortiz
Adagio rítmico “Preludio en candela”
Scherzo (Presto) “Canción en gavota”
Aire y fuga…al fogón

* NYC premier

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October 17
Poets read in Peterborough NH

Poets read in Peterborough NH

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This is Caravan from Sketches for Two by Frank Wallace as recorded by the Argentis Dúo from Mexico.  I am so pleased they chose to include my work on their CD, which is entitled Sketches.  The CD was released two years ago by the II Festival Internacional de Guitarra Clásica Ramón Noble which takes place every September in Pachuca, Hidalgo, México.

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October 16

Great to hear JugendZupfOrchestra again and to learn my old student John Zevos is running a fabulous guitar program at Timberlane High school in Plaistow NH.

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