January 2010
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Meet the Composer!
festival21:
has just awarded BCGS funds to support Jose Lezcano’s composition for the BCGS Orchestra to be debuted at Festival 21. BRAVO! and thank you Adrienne Petrillo and all at NEFA who keep these programs going.
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Wallace in London, sort of...
I”m very happy to hear that English lutenist Lynda Sayce will perform the Passacaglia from my After Sylvius [again], in a concert at St James’ Church Piccadilly, on March 13th. Lynda reports, “I’m doing a couple of short solo slots in an otherwise choral concert, with a really excellent choir called the Nonsuch Singers. They’re doing a mixed programme of renaissance...
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Alturas Duo gets ASCAP Award →
Congratulations to this great Duo for winning the ASCAP “Adventurous Programming” award.
The Alturas Duo has been recognized as one of the most engaging ensembles performing in the chamber music world today. The only group of its kind, the Duo was formed with the idea of playing South American and classical music by bringing together the unusual combination of the viola, charango and...
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Great blog from Douglas Niedt
Douglas Niedt is a top-notch guitarist from Kansas City who I met in Santiago de Compostela in 1972 - attending the Andrés Segovia masterclass. Ol’ Andrés was ill and so his assistant Jose Tomas took over that year. Doug has a great monthly blog - GUITAR TECHNIQUE TIP OF THE MONTH Yes, it’s “Doug’s Dirty Little Secrets”.
This is a selection from the current post -...
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CCMS January 8 program
Friday, January 8, 7:30 pm Recital Hall, Concord Community Music School 23 Wall Street Concord, NH 03301
(603) 228-1196 FOR TICKETS AND MORE INFORMATION
Seating is limited and an advance ticket purchase is recommended
THE PROGRAM
Preludes 1, 3, 4, 2 Heitor Villa-Lobos, 1887-1959
Homage a Tárrega Joaquín Turina, 1882-1949 Adelita, mazurka Francisco Tárrega, 1852-1909 Maria,...
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Men, Women and Molecules
I began work on my new song cycle for the Olson / de Cari Duo right before Xmas. It is projected to be six songs on poems by the Nobel Prize-winning chemist Roald Hoffmann. Here’s a selection from the first song:
SOMEWHERE
In me are hidden constellations.
Once I managed to sight one through a lens of equations that could be solved only approximately. Still, with that imperfect rule I...
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Lilac.Star.Bird is gorgeous, passionate
Tracy Anne Smith is half of the ChromaDuo who will play at Festival 21 on April 10 at 4pm. They are fabulous, but I had not heard Tracy alone ‘til this moment. I wrote Tracy after about 15 mintues into her fabulous CD - this is one hell of a gutarist - and more importantly a top-class musician.
“Dear Tracy - I’m sitting here doing event info on Facebook - listening to your CD (finally) and you...
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Random Act... →
Got a nice note from friend and guitarist Jay Rosenberg the other day on FaceBook:
I was browsing through my iTunes music when I came across a file called randomact.mp3 with no other information. So I played it. Then I googled it and, of course, found you. Now I recall your announcing it. Is it some kind of MIDI playback? It’s beautiful! Haunting piece, reminds me a bit of Hovhaness. Bravo....