The Center for 21st Century Music will be co-sponsoring two
events with 'A Musical Feast' for their Spring 2013 concert season at the
Burchfield Penney Art Center. 'A Musical Feast' has been putting on high-quality
performances and concerts of contemporary music, as well as music from all
periods, for many years now at the Burchfield Penney. The press release below
offers some great background and information on the first concert, on Sunday,
March 10th:
‘A Musical Feast’ Sunday March 10 @ 2:00 PM
Snapshot of a Century
of Music
‘A Musical Feast’ offers a taste of music spanning the last 100 years
On Sunday, March 10, at 2:00 p.m., the independent,
cutting-edge musical group known as ‘A Musical Feast’ offers its winter
concert, in its home in the acoustically superior Peter & Elizabeth C.
Tower Auditorium of the Burchfield Penny Art Center. Western New York lovers of
classical music have come to expect every musical program put on by ‘A Musical
Feast’, the chamber music group founded by Charles Haupt, the now retired,
longtime concert master of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, to offer
something out of the ordinary, an expectation that the group has never failed
to fulfill.
The wide-range of represented composers range from Belgian
composer Eugène Ysaÿe, whose 1895 romantically elegant Poème élégiaque, will be performed by Eastman School of Music
virtuoso violinist Charles Castleman, and Buffalo’s favorite pianist Claudia
Hoca, to SUNY at Buffalo distinguished professor David Felder, whose work A Garland (for Bruce) received its
premiere just this past September. Also on the program are works by Debussy,
Stravinsky, Hindemith, Piazzolla and J.T. Rinker. Charles Castleman and Claudia
Hoca will also perform “Minstrels”, a violin and piano version of the 12th and
last of the Preludes (Book I) by Claude Debussy. Pianist Claudia Hoca
will be joined by UB professor of cello Jonathan Golove in a performance of
selections from Stravinsky’s “Suite italienne”, derived from the music for the
neo-classical score of his later 1920 ballet Pulcinella. Wildy Zumwalt, professor of saxophone at the Fredonia
School of Music will be joined by Diane Hunger, a native of Kiel, Germany, who
is currently pursuing her Doctorate at the Eastman School of Music, in a rare
concert performance of Hindemith’s 1933 Konzertstück
für Zwei Altsaxophone. The late Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla can be
justly credited with bringing the attention of the classical music world to the
tango, the quintessential dance form of his native land. Saxophonist Wildy
Zumwalt, pianist Claudia Hoca, and cellist Jonathan Golove will be joined by
Moshe Shulman playing the bandoneón, or Argentine concertina, and instrument
essential to a tango ensemble, in Three
Dances by Piazzolla, including the irresistible “Oblivion”.
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| Tom Kolor performs J.T. Rinker's Frigate |
Moving up to the present, UB professor of percussion Tom
Kolor will perform Frigate by J.T.
Rinker. The 2008 piece is written for crotales, a percussion instrument made up
of small, tuned brass disks, as well as electronic sounds – the delicate
filigree of sound produced is pleasantly surprising.
David Felder, coordinator of composition at the UB
Department of Music wrote A Garland (for
Bruce) in 2012 as, he says, “a small tribute work for cello and electronic
sound with photo images shot by Bruce Jackson. It is dedicated to Bruce Jackson
in friendship and with admiration!” Cellist Jonathan Golove will perform the
piece honoring Jackson, whose works are currently on view in the “Being There:
Bruce Jackson, Photographs 1962-2012” exhibit at the Burchfield Penny Art
Center.
‘A Musical Feast’ Sunday March 10 @ 2:00 PM
Frigate
(2008) J.T. Rinker (1974)
Tom Kolor, percussion
Konzertstück für Zwei Altsaxophone (1933) Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
I. Lebhaft
II. Mäßig langsam
III. Lebhaft
Diane Hunger, saxophone, Wildy Zumwalt, saxophone
A Garland (For Bruce) (2012) David Felder (1953)
Jonathan Golove, cello
"Minstrels" Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
From Preludes (December 1919/January 1910)
12 Minstrels
Claudia Hoca, piano, Charles Castleman, violin
Poème élégiaque, Op. 12 (1895) Eugène Ysaÿe
(1858-1931).
Claudia Hoca, piano, Charles Castleman, violin
--Intermission--
"Suite italienne" (from Pulcinella, 1932) Igor Stravinsky (1882- 1971)
Claudia Hoca, piano, Jonathan Golove, cello
Three Dances Astor Piazolla (1921 – 1992)
Invierno Porteño
La Muerte del Àngel
Oblivion
Wildy Zumwalt saxophone, Claudia Hoca piano,
Jonathan Golove cello, Moshe Shulman, bandoneon
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| David Taylor on the cover of "Trombone" magazine |
The second 'A Musical Feast' concert of the Spring 2013 season, on Friday, April 12th, at 8:00 p.m., will feature long-time friend of the Center David Taylor, a veteran and
explosive New York trombonist with over four decades logged into performances,
recordings, and tours. This concert will feature original compositions by David Taylor, as well as a piece by recently graduated UB composer John Bacon. The evening will also feature David Taylor's arrangement of Franz Schubert's Der Doppelgänger, arranged for bass trombone. The concert will conclude with Karlheinz Stockhausen's Signs of the Zodiac. The program follows:
‘A Musical Feast’ Friday April 12 @ 8:00 PM
Song and Dance David Taylor (1944)
1. song
2. dance
David Taylor, bass trombone, Michael McNeill, piano
Waves at Matsushima (2011) John Bacon
Rin Ozaki, marimba
Der Doppelgänger Franz Schubert (1797-1828)/Heinrich Heine
(1797-1856)
David Taylor, bass trombone arranged by David Taylor (1944)
--Intermission--
Tierkreis (Signs of the Zodiac) (1975) Karlheinz
Stockhausen (1928-2007)
Rin Ozaki, marimba CAPRICORN
Dave Taylor, bass trombone GEMINI
John Bacon, drums, percussion, vibes AQUARIUS
Michael McNeill, piano ARIES
Jonathan Golove, cello LEO
Both concerts will be in the Burchfield Penney Art Center at
Buffalo State College. Look forward to seeing you there!
Burchfield Penney Art Center
Peter & Elizabeth C. Tower Auditorium
Buffalo State College
1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222
716-878-6011
burchfld@buffalostate.edu
Tickets: $20; Burchfield Penny members/students: $10.
Phone: 716-878-6011.
Information: www.amusicalfeast.com, or: www.BurchfieldPenny.org
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