Heitor Villa-Lobos Website

Americas and Americans Festival

OFF-SITE EVENTS

JACARANDA
First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica, 1220 Second Street, Santa Monica, CA 90401

April 17, 2010
"Magic Realism"
The Denali Quartet
VILLA-LOBOS String Quartet No. 5 "La Popular"
VILLA-LOBOS Jet Whistle for flute and cello
GOLIJOV Lullaby and Doina
PIAZZOLLA Chiquilin de Bachín (Little Urchin of the Greasy Spoon)
VILLA-LOBOS Chôros No. 2
GOLIJOV Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind

This concert presents music from Brazil and Argentina. Some of the very best chamber music of the vastly prolific Heitor Villa-Lobos includes the duo for clarinet and flute Choros No 2 from his years in Paris, his Fifth Quartet, aptly name "La Popular" for its Amazonian folk borrowings and dazzling colors, and the high stakes post-war Jet Whistle for flute and cello. Astor Piazzolla is represented by an intimate scene in Buenos Aires called Little Urchin of the Greasy Spoon with actor, string trio and bass. Two contrasting works by Osvaldo Golijov, the intoxicating Lullaby and Doina and the highly charged drama of Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind, a clarinet quintet of enormous power, complete the program.

The Denali Quartet, and three of its members, Joel Pargman, violin, Alma Lisa Fernandez, viola, and Timothy Loo, cello, are joined by the Argentine-American actor Castulo Guerra, Pamela Vilek Martchev, flute, Donald Foster, clarinet, and Nico Abondolo, double bass.

General ticket: $35. Students $15. Please visit www.jacarandamusic.org or call (800) 595-4TIX