Sunday, March 13 2011
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.
There's a new Concert Listing website: Bachtrack.
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Tom Clowes Benefit Concerts in TucsonDate: 03/11/2011 - 16:00 03/13/2011 - 12:00 Location: USA: Tucson AZ Work Performed: Cello Sonata #2 Benefit Concerts of Latin American and Spanish Music Friday, March 11, 4PM (UUCT) Sunday, March 13, 2PM (KPCT) Former Tucson Symphony Cellist Tom Clowes and pianist Ji-Young Kim, group piano professor at the University of Arizona, present "Musica Latina," a concert of Spanish songs, Argentine tango, Argentine cowboy music, and Brazilian-classical fusion by Manuel De Falla, Astor Piazzolla, Alberto Ginastera, and Heitor Villa-Lobos. Half of donations collected at Friday's concert will be given to No More Deaths, who work to diminish death and suffering along the US-Mexico border. Half of donations at Sunday's concert will be given to the Caneille Regional Development Fund, which operates a Haitian elementary school that has received an influx of refugees after the January earthquake. The concert will include Villa-Lobos' Second Sonata for Cello and Piano, Ginastera's Pampeana #2, Piazzolla's Le Grand Tango, and Suite Populaire by De Falla. Villa Lobos' sonata is a nearly unknown work by a composer influenced by jazz, French impressionism, and Brazilian indigenous and folk music. Pampeana #2 is music for the gauchos, or cowboys, of the pampas, or Brazilian countryside. Le Grand Tango is also a product of musical fusion, mixing elements of Baroque, classical, jazz, and tango music. Suite Populaire Espagnole by De Falla is a transcription of Spanish love songs and lullabies, originally for voice and piano. Tom Clowes was a member of the Tucson Symphony and Tucson Pops Orchestras before leaving for Chicago to study with international cello soloist Wendy Warner. Ji-Young Kim has performed at the Boston Symphony's Tanglewood Festival, as a concerto soloist at the Rocky Ridge Music Festival and the Lawrence Conservatory of Music, and in master classes with Richard Goode, Robert McDonald, and Anne-Marie McDermott. Clowes and Kim have been performing as a duo and in a trio for over five years, including performances broadcast on Tucson's classical KUAT-FM. No More Deaths is a conscience-based, interfaith group that seeks to end death and suffering along the US-Mexico border, providing water, food, and medical care to migrants and, in Mexico, to deported persons. The group recently came to attention when several of its volunteers were controversially arrested and convicted of littering. The Caneille Regional Development Fund operates an elementary school in Caneille, Haiti. The school was growing rapidly because of the reputation it earned through a 100% student success rate in passing national exams. Then, it received an influx of 27 students from a nearby refugee camp after the January earthquake. The Caneille Regional Development Program also provides emergency medical transit and economic development programs. The concerts are presented in partnership with the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson, No More Deaths, the Korean Presbyterian Church of Tucson, and the Caneille Regional Development Fund. Key 1
Arcos Trio in Lansing MIDate: 03/13/2011 - 15:00 Location: USA: Lansing MI Work Performed: Piano Trio #3 Arcos Trio / Schumann, Piazzolla, Villa Lobos Plymouth Congregational Church Presenter: Lansing Symphony Orchestra Schumann: Trio for Piano and Strings no 1 in D minor, Op. 63 Key 1
Suite for Voice and Violin in TucsonDate: 03/13/2011 - 15:00 Location: USA: Tucson AZ Work Performed: Suite for Voice and Violin Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival Sunday, March 13, 2011 - 3 p.m. Debussy, String Quartet in G minor. Op.10 Olli Mustonen is a pianist of note, but he's also a composer, and the success of his String Nonet in the 2009 festival led to a commission for a piano quartet featuring an oboe where you'd expect a cello to be. The more traditional configuration of piano and three strings is featured in Antonin Dvořák's Piano Quartet No. 2, suffused with the rhythms and melodies of his native Bohemia. It's Brazil that's evoked in Heitor Villa-Lobos' suite for voice and violin, while Claude Debussy's beloved and only string quartet evokes the repressed passions of late 19th-century France. |