Saturday, December 12 2009
These concert listings come courtesy of the following sites: Concerto, Concertino, and Portal VivaMusica in Brazil; ConcertDiary in the UK, Instant Encore in the US, and La Scena Musicale in Canada. Also from my faithful HVL Website viewers - send me an email if you know of any upcoming Villa-Lobos concert, anywhere in the world.
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Ramat Gan Chamber Choir performs Villa-Lobos's MagnificatDate: 12/12/2009 - 11:00 Location: Israel: Tel Aviv Work Performed: Magnificat Ramat Gan Chamber Choir Musical Morning in Tzavta A. Dvorak: Mass in D Major Key 1
Choral Concert at the Museu Parque das RuínasDate: 12/12/2009 - 11:30 Location: Brazil: Rio de Janeiro Work Performed: Choral works Dia 12 Key 1
Guitar Concerto in Welwyn Garden City UKDate: 12/12/2009 - 19:30 Location: USA: Welwyn Garden City UK Work Performed: Guitar Concerto 12 DECEMBER 2009 7.30PM Vaughan Williams Benedicite James Ross, conductor Key 1
Spain & the New World: A Holiday ConcertDate: 12/04/2009 - 20:00 12/06/2009 - 16:00 12/12/2009 - 20:00 Location: USA: Berkeley CA Work Performed: Praesepe Spain and the New World: A Holiday Concert * Organization: Sacred and Profane Additional Dates: Christmas, Caliente Sacred and Profane Seeman is not your average choral conductor (then again, is anyone?). She has even built herself a two-octave, chromatic, wine-glass organ on which she plays alternative and other "off-kilter" avant-garde music. (She's not saying which varietals she favors.) She has recorded music for theater productions, as well as played arrangements of songs by composers as varied as Kurt Weill and Brian Eno. These interests complement her traditional background (a DMA in conducting from the University of Iowa and a Master's from UCSC), so you won't be surprised to hear that the holiday concert she has assembled is an amalgam. Rebecca Seeman "I like to program in a way that has a thematic center," she says. "A program is most exciting when you come away knowing something about a region or period. And there's such a depth of transference of musical styles from Spain to Latin America, so I thought that would be an interesting topic to delve into. And within that unity, there's a tremendous amount of diversity. I always look for that contrast in unity." The anchor for this concert is Ariel Ramirez' Navidad nuestra, a Christmas oratorio in six poems by Felix Luna. Ramirez was an ethnomusicologist and composer who is famous for his Misa criolla (Creole Mass, 1964), based on Argentinean folk music. In Navidad nuestra, which dates from the same year, he pairs each poem with an Argentinean dance. The first of these, a gentle chamané, recalls, in style and meter, the European pastorale, which is often associated with the Christmas story. This provides just one of the many back-and-forth connections that cement this program. To help perform Ramirez' spirited work, Seeman has had recourse to musicians from the other end of the South American continent - the established Venezuelan tenor Jimmy Kansau; and the V-Note Ensemble, a four-member band that fuses traditional and folk music with jazz, veering from the joropo to swing and embracing calypso, bebop, and many other genres. The rest of the program, the result of much winnowing, includes the 16th-century polyphonist Tomas Luis de la Victoria's beloved Christmas motet O magnum mysterium; Heitor Villa Lobos' The Manger, one of a number of brilliant choral works he composed as director of music education for Rio de Janeiro; the world-famous villancicos called E la don don and Ríu, Ríu, Chíu; four unpublished arrangements of South American carols by the Mexican composer Max Lifschitz, one of which is sung in Aymara, a native language of Peru (spoken by over a million people); and a modern setting of the Marian hymn Ave maris stella by Javier Busto. "It's a much more rhythmically exciting program than we normally do," says Seeman, putting herself in contention for the understatement-of-the-year award. Don't think it'll be your average choral concert; instead, bring your dancing shoes. Michael Zwiebach holds a Ph.D. in music history from UC Berkeley. Key 1
Week-end Villa-Lobos in Paris: Concert #2Date: 12/12/2009 - 20:00 Location: France: Paris Concert du 12/12/2009 à 20H00 Programme : Interprètes : Informations : Radio France ACCES : Key 1
Ciranda das Sete Notas in MontrealDate: 12/12/2009 - 20:00 Location: Canada: Montreal QC Work Performed: Ciranda das Sete Notas Saturday, December 12, 2009 Conservatoire de musique de Montréal 4750 Henri-Julien Key 1
The Orquestra de Câmara Metropolitana & Duo Siqueira Lima play Villa-LobosDate: 12/12/2009 - 21:00 Location: Brazil: Sao Paulo Work Performed: Guitar Concerto Choros #01 Choros #05 Bachianas Brasileiras #4 Bachianas Brasileiras #5 Preludes for Guitar São Paulo, 12 de Dezembro de 2009 - São Paulo 21h00 - Orquestra de Câmara Metropolitana e Duo Siqueira Lima O Brasil de Heitor Villa-Lobos - Série Violão e Orquestra. Duo Siqueira Lima: Cecília Siqueira e Fernando Lima - violões. Direção musical, regência e arranjos: Rodrigo Vitta. Programa: Villa-Lobos - Choros nºs 5 e 1, Bachianas brasileiras nºs 5 e 4, Prelúdio nº 5 e Concerto para violão e pequena orquestra. Reapresentação dia 13 às 19h30. Key 1
Guitar Concerto & Sexteto Mistico in Sao PauloDate: 12/12/2009 - 21:00 Location: Brazil: Sao Paulo Work Performed: Guitar Concerto Sexteto Mistico Duo Siqueira Lima (Cecília Siqueira e Fernando Lima, violões) Data e Hora: Local: Key 1
Etudes & Preludes at the Festival Leo BrouwerDate: 12/12/2009 - 21:00 Location: Brazil: Sao Paulo Work Performed: Preludes for Guitar Etudes for Guitar Egberto Gismonti, Gustavo Costa, Eduardo Meirinhos, violões. EntreQuatre Data e Hora: Local: |