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Preview - Chamber music concert promises to be lively and lyrical
The Harold Dunn Memorial Concert series begins Friday night
Eryn Burkhart
Issue date: 2/2/09 Section: Entertainment

The faculty's top musicians promise a great introduction to classical music this Friday with the opening of the 2009 Harold Dunn Memorial Concert Series.

The spring semester begins with a performance of chamber music, starting at 7 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church.

City College instructor Dr. Linda Holland, who will be featured on flute for the concert, said the music is "classical, but fun and lyrical."

Performing along with Holland are Jackie Greenshields on cello, Josephine Brummel and Anne Weger on piano, and Emma Lou Diemer on organ.

All performers have played together many times in the past, each a master of their respective craft, organizers say.

Holland said the program includes a "nice mix of standard classical," including a Brahms cello sonata, as well as the more contemporary "The Jet Whistle," by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos.

Chamber music is a term used to describe music played by a small group of performers, usually with one instrument to a part, different than larger orchestras that have multiple players playing each part.

Historically, this arrangement allowed music to be played in small spaces, thus the word chamber, meaning "room." At the same time it also allowed for a much more intimate feel to the music.

In these close settings, a sort of conversation seems to take place between the players. One instrument leads with a musical line, which is then echoed by the next. A counterpoint is introduced, and a complex interweaving of melodies and harmonies ensues.

Where large orchestras impress with sheer sound, chamber groups invite and give individuality to the parts. The lack of a conductor lessens the gap between the audience and the musicians.

For those with an appreciation for the art, the concert promises a delightful performance of some of the greats in classical music, organizers say.

The concert begins at 7 p.m., and is expected to last about an hour and a half. Tickets are $6 for City College students, and $10 for general admission. Tickets can be purchased at the door. ?The First United Methodist Church is located on 305 E. Anapamu St.

Globetrotting recording artist Julian Byzantine returning to Freeport for a benefit event
Sunday, 25 January 2009 15:41
Julian Byzantine...guitar man The Spanish guitar was immortalised in the best-selling song of international superstar Toni Braxton - and its versatility gets fully demonstrated next week in Freeport by one of the world's finest virtuosos in the instrument.

It is the centre part of an exciting night devoted to music and song from Spain and Latin America planned for the Regency Theatre - a show which includes the staccato rhythms of tango, the world's sexiest dance, as well as the smoother, more lyrical notes of classical numbers.

Globetrotting recording artist and concert performer Julian Byzantine will be stopping by on the way to an appearance in California to be the centrepiece of a benefit event in aid of the Freeport Players Guild Scholarship Fund. The British-born, Australian-based Byzantine has played in 76 countries in a glittering career which has seen him as soloist, teacher, and author of one of the most famous and authoritative books ever written about the instrument.

The orchestras he has played with and the venues he has appeared at read like a musical "Who's Who" and "What's What" with the Royal Philharmonic and the BBC Symphony Orchestras among the former and the Sydney Opera House and New York City's Carnegie Hall among the latter.

His appearance on Freeport's more modest Regency stage will be supported by a glittering array of local talent some of whom have benefited in the past from the fund for which the event, on Friday, February 6, at 7 pm, will be raising much needed funds.

They will include pupils from the Lois Seiler Academy of Dance; the Orchestral School of Music and the Allegro School of Music string ensemble.

The tango, Por Una Cabeza, will be played by Afrika Karamo (violin) and Eva Ratuszynski (viola), Lois Desaulniers (piano). Dalia Feldman will be singing from the works of Heitor Villa Lobos, the Brazilian composer recognised as the most significant Latin American composer of all time.

It will be an apt choice since the star of the evening, Byzantine, owed his early fame to a TV documentary on Villa Lobos which he presented and which was subsequently broadcast on screens around the world. By then he had already shown his personal prowess on the guitar and attracted the attention of outstanding Spanish musician Andres Segovia and his pupil Venezuelan Alirio Diaz, both of whom took him under their wings.

It will be Byzantine's second appearance in Freeport but his focus on a range of Hispanic music will ensure a programme which will on one hand be entirely different in content and style and on the other world class.

"It is rare if ever that a community with a population as small as that of Grand Bahama can have attracted such a genuinely famous and remarkable performer," says producer Gloria McGlone.

Tickets at $35 each can be bought at The Seventeen Shop, Downtown; Island Java, Port Lucaya and the Italian Specialty Shop, Seahorse Plaza.

ANTROPOFAGIA MUSICAL

Tres conciertos con motivo de la exposición Tarsila do Amaral
6, 11 y 18 febrero 2009

Salón de actos.
19,30 horas.
Entrada libre.

El programa
Viernes 6 febrero

Coro y Solistas de la Comunidad de Madrid
Jordi Casas, director

Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)
QuatrainsValaisans, Op. 206
1. Pays
2. Rose de lumière
3. L' année tourne
4. Chemins
5. Beau papillon

Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
Quinteto en forma de chôros
Chôros nº 3.Op.189 (dedicada a Tarsila do Amaral) para clarinete, saxofón, fagot, 3 trompas, trombón y coro masculino

See this post at The Villa-Lobos Magazine for more on this series.  This series is being broadcast live on Radio Clásica, from Radio Nacional de España.

Cellist Mushabac and guitarist Vieaux team up in concert
by Donald Rosenberg / Plain Dealer Reporter
Wednesday February 04, 2009, 12:40 PM
The Plain Dealer

Baldwin-Wallace College faculty cellist Regina Mushabac plays a recital Friday at B-W with guitarist Jason Vieaux.

PREVIEW
Regina Mushabac and Jason Vieaux
What: The cellist and the classical guitarist give a recital of works by Villa-Lobos, Zenamon, Bach, Jobim and Gnattali.
When: 8 p.m. Friday.
Where: Gamble Auditorium in Baldwin-Wallace College's Kulas Musical Arts Building, 96 Front St., Berea.
Tickets: Free. 440-826-2322.
Also: Vieaux appears on a program with bandoneon player Julien Labro, dancer Saundra Bohl and the Linden Quartet at 4 p.m. Sunday at Hanna Perkins Center, 19910 Malvern Rd., Shaker Heights. Tickets: $15-$40. Call 216-991-4472.

Curiosity may kill feline sorts, but evidently not cellists. Regina Mushabac believes her artistic health is served best when she spices up her beloved instrument's repertoire.

The recital that the faculty cellist at the Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music will give tonight is a perfect example of her inquisitive spirit. For most of the evening, she'll share the stage with classical guitarist Jason Vieaux, a faculty member at the Cleveland Institute of Music and internationally acclaimed artist on whom Mushabac heaps superlatives.

"He's brilliant, a stunning musician," says the cellist, who first performed with Vieaux last June. "We'll be talking and he just starts noodling around and these notes come flying out in an improvisatory way."

The pairing of cello and guitar might seem unusual to some listeners, but not to Vieaux, who made a compact disc with Korean cellist Young Song several years ago on the Stomp Music label. Half of the works are original pieces for guitar and cello. The rest are Vieaux arrangements of popular music by Antonio Carlos Jobim and others.

The program Vieaux and Mushabac will present tonight is similar to the format of the guitarist's disc. Bolivia's Jamie M. Zenamon and Brazil's Radames Gnattali wrote their respective pieces specifically for cello and guitar.

Amid these works and arrangements of music by Villa-Lobos and Jobim, Mushabac and Vieaux each will play a solo Bach piece: Suite No. 4 (cello) and Prelude, Fugue and Allegro, BWV 998 (guitar, originally lute).
Courtesy of Guitars InternationalClassical guitarist Jason Vieaux is an internationally admired concert artist and faculty member at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

"Is that cheating, that we're not doing a whole program of duos?" asks Mushabac. "I've been playing for 53 of my 59 years. This is the first time I'm playing the fourth [Bach] suite. I'm thrilled. I always envy my students when they start a new piece."

Vieaux, whose solo Bach disc on Cleveland-based Azica Records is set for release later this month, is sold on the guitar-cello music he has performed with Song and Mushabac.

"The two instruments share similar range," he says. "There's a blend that's really nice, particularly when the cello plays in the upper register."

Like his Cleveland-area colleague, Vieaux is a member of an mutual admiration society.

"She has so much energy," he says of Mushabac. "She has incredible enthusiasm about the music, and it's really infectious. It's wonderful working with her."

Orquestra Nacional do Porto com programa inteiramente dedicado ao Brasil
04 | 02 | 2009 10.12H

Com obras de Villa-Lobos, Darius Milhaud e Bernd Alois Zimmermann, a Orquestra Nacional do Porto (ONP) apresenta este fim-de-semana um programa inteiramente dedicado ao Brasil, em dois concertos, disse hoje à agência Lusa fonte da instituição.
Destak/Lusa | destak@destak.pt

O primeiro concerto, sexta-feira, às 21:00, abre com o poema sinfónico Uirapirú (nome de um pássaro que, quando canta, todos os outros na selva se remetem ao silêncio, ouvindo a sua melodia encantatória), de Heitor Villa-Lobos.

Para construir esta obra, o compositor inspirou-se em vários elementos nativos e populares, aos quais juntou a sua própria história, retratando, na sua partitura, o ambiente da selva brasileira.

Segue-se "Le boeuf sur le toit (O boi no telhado)" e "Saudades do Brasil", de Darius Milhaud, obras que mostram como o compositor francês ficou marcado pelo período (de um ano) em que viveu no Rio de Janeiro.

O concerto termina com uma obra do compositor alemão Bernd Alois Zimmermann, que em meados do século XX, se inspirou igualmente na música brasileira para compor o bailado "Alagoana", obra também conhecida pelo título "Caprichos Brasileiros", com referências à música do sertão e dos povos indígenas do Brasil.

A direcção musical é de Peter Rundel, maestro titular do Remix Ensemble, que antes de se dedicar, há mais de 20 anos, à carreira de maestro, era um violinista mundialmente reconhecido.

Desde então, tem-se distinguido numa variedade de projectos com grandes orquestras europeias.

No âmbito do teatro musical, dirigiu produções na Ópera Alemã de Berlim, na Ópera do Estado da Baviera e nos festivais de Viena e Bregenz.

Entre 1984 e 1996, integrou como violinista a formação do Ensemble Modern, com o qual mantém uma relação próxima como maestro.

Na área da música contemporânea tem desenvolvido colaborações com o Ensemble Recherche, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Resonanz, Asko Ensemble de Amesterdão e Klangforum de Viena, trabalhando ainda regularmente com o Ensemble Intercontemporain de Paris, Ictus Ensemble de Bruxelas e MusikFabrik de Düsseldorf.

Peter Rundel recebeu numerosos prémios pelas suas gravações de música do século XX, incluindo por várias vezes o prestigioso 'Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik (Prémio da Crítica Discográfica Alemã)", com as suas gravações de "Prometeo" de Luigi Nono (EMI), "Peças para Ensemble e Orquestra" de Hanspeter Kyburz (Kairos) e "Life"de Steve Reich (BG).

Ganhou o Grande Prémio do Disco, com "Gesamtwerk", de Jean Barraqué, e foi nomeado para o Prémio Grammy pela sua versão de "Surrogate Cities" de Heiner Goebbels (ECM).

Na temporada de 2007/2008, dirigiu "Blood On The Floor" de Mark-Anthony Turnage com o Remix Ensemble (CD disponível na ARGO).

Parte deste programa - "Saudades do Brasil" (excertos) e "Alagoana" - é apresentada de novo no domingo, num concerto da série Ao Meio-Dia.