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This is a brief interview with John Zevos who teaches guitar at Timberlane Regional High in Plaistow NH. I played for his classes last Friday. He’s doing a great job getting a complete classical program going there and is planning a big Festival next year - thinking about getting the Romeros to play in their beautiful 900 seat auditorium. His orchestra will come participate in Festival 21 on April 10.
Listen -
J. S. Bach- Prelude for Lute in D Minor. Andrew McKenna Lee- ‘Variation’ from Five Refractions of a Prelude by Bach (2004). Andrew McKenna Lee, guitar. See more of Andrew here at his YouTube page.
The latest from Andrew McKenna Lee, who appears at Festival 21 on April 10 in Boston:
I’m pleased to say that Gravity and Air made it into a couple “Best of 2009” lists, including one from The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, and another in Time Out Chicago, where classical writer Doyle Armbrust wrote:
“The fretwork of guitarist Andrew McKenna Lee is nothing short of remarkable. Opening Gravity and Air with an homage to Bach — a sensuous rendition of Prelude for Lute in D Minor, BWV 999 — Lee continues with five gorgeous ‘Refractions,’ or responses, to the ‘Prelude.’ Discover an altered sense of the passage of time with this remarkably introspective album.”
Meanwhile, Solar/Electric has recently received some attention, most notably, perhaps, from composer Steve Reich, who cited my realization of his Electric Counterpoint as “a magnificent performance, beautifully recorded.”
Other thoughtful criticism on this release has been offered by George Grella at
The Big City, and the insatiable music lovers at textura.org.
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.
On behalf of the Boston Classical Guitar Society, I wish to thank the Augustine Foundation of New York for substantial funding of the events of Festival 21, coming April 10, 2010.
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 take my breath away! Usually I don’t listen at the computer because it just goes by and I couldn’t even tell you what happened. But your version of Mysterious Habitats made me stop in my tracks - the sound is great, the playing magnificent. I generally can’t stand hearing Barrios, and even that gave me a thrill. All is so tender, passionate, elegant, powerful, intelligent … perfect. Congratulations!Now in Lilac.Star.Bird — gorgeous!!”
You can read and hear more at www.tracyannesmith.com/ - and you can get a Free copy of this CD by buying $50 of BCGS tickets online now. www.itsmyseat.com/bcgs.html
I recently posted an article on my Festival 21 blog entitled No Nocturnal?! about why the BCGS presents Festival 21, a new music festival in Boston each April.
The main idea was generated from a conversation with Eleftheria Kotzia and I wanted to note here the pieces that have been written for her - very impressive.
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Register for Festival 21 or buy any BCGS tickets totaling $50 or more before January 15, 2010 and receive a free CD of one of the artists presenting at the festival. Go to our website or directly to www.itsmyseat.com/bcgs.html. CDs by Gyan Riley, Jose Lezcano Trio, Tracie Anne Smith, and Andrew Mckenna Lee are listed at www.bostonguitar.info/freecds.html - maybe more, go check it out!
Festival 21 2010, a celebration of American composers and guitarists who are making new things happen in the 21st century, will take place on April 10, 2010 at two locations in Boston: Gordon Chapel, 645 Boylston St., during the day and the First Lutheran Church at 299 Berklee St. in the evening This year’s event features the ever-popular Members’ Concert, San Francisco composer/guitarist Gyan Riley, BCGS New Music Competition winner Rob MacDonald with Tracy Anne Smith as the ChromaDuo, the Jose Lezcano Trio and Dr. Lezcano conducting a large ensemble piece composed by him for the occasion. Riley (iconic composer Terry Riley’s son) will present the “marquee” evening concert at FLC preceded by a performance by Society members of Lezcano’s new work. FLC has equally stunning acoustics for guitar, but holds more audience than Gordon Chapel and is still easily accessible on the T. Keep an eye on our website for further updates and plan to play either in the Members’ Concert or the BCGS Ensemble - we need as many bodies with guitars as we can get! Proposals for performances of members are now being accepted, contact Frank Wallace at wallacecomposer@gmail.com.
The tentative schedule:
Gordon Chapel
The First Lutheran Church of Boston
Pablo Garibay performs La noche de las ranas by Tomás Barreiro. The night of the frogs is a piece that uses rhetorical principles to articulate its parts as musical speech. It has six sections, and in one of them a quote of the folk song Macochi pitentzin is included. The harmonic language is derived from clusters and the piece makes use of very common devices on the modern guitar literature such as Harmonics, rasgueos and some percussion. It is an evocative piece that makes reference to the word night (noche) as a meditation over death, and empathizes the note b as homage to J.S. Bach, who loved the b minor key.
Played in april 2009 in the Festival21 in Boston, USA presented by the Boston Classical Guitar Society. Supported by the Augustine Foundation and Mexican Consulate of Boston.
