Streaming on FACEBOOK: Glendale Noon Concerts 10/7/20

Streaming on FACEBOOK: Glendale Noon Concerts 10/7/20  

Violinist JACQUELINE SUZUKI & Pianist BRENDAN WHITE:

Duos by MOZART & LISZT


During the Covid-19 "Safer at Home" period,
Glendale Noon Concerts will bring our programs
to you via streaming on Facebook Live and Youtube:
The OCTOBER 7, 2020 program can be viewed at this link
beginning at 12:10 pm PDT: 

The concert is on youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2VVymzIjFQ

http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com/2020/09/streaming-on-facebook-glendale-noon_20.html

 

Glendale City Church Youtube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt6zEXA-8F7CPOixLDWxGBA

WATCH Again! 

The September 16 concert on Youtube: ADRIANA ZOPPO - viola d'amore   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQO6HmjzlK0

http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com/2020/09/streaming-on-facebook-glendale-noon.html

The September 2 concert on Youtube: ALEXANDER KNECHT -violin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8dK2uTZCtY
http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com/2020/08/streaming-on-facebook-glendale-noon.html

Facebook stream: GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS
Every FIRST & THIRD WEDNESDAY at 12:10 pm PDT
On Wednesday OCTOBER 7, 2020 at 12:10 pm PDT:

JACQUELINE SUZUKI - violin

BRENDAN WHITE - piano

(Scroll down for artist bio & program notes) 

Program:

W.A. MOZART (1756-1791)

Violin Sonata No.25 in F Major, K.377  (1781)

Allegro Tema con variazioni Tempo di menuetto

 

FRANZ LISZT (1811-1886)

Grand duo concertant sur la romance de “Le marin” for Violin and Piano, S. 128 (1835)

Lento assai – Animato, quasi allegro Variation III: Allegretto pastorale

Andantino Variation IV: Tarantella – Presto

Variation I: Un poco pi. animato Finale: Animato marziale

Variation II

Facebook  OCTOBER 7 event page

https://www.facebook.com/events/331329454596424

Please keep checking the site below for updates.

A list of upcoming concerts will be posted soon.

 http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com

Streaming on Wednesday OCTOBER 21, 2020 at 12:10-12:40 pm PDT:  

KEN AISO - violin

VALERIA MORGOVSKAYA - piano

BRAHMS Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Major, Op.78

JANACEK Violin Sonata

 

PLEASE HELP THESE CONCERTS TO CONTINUE 
WITH A DONATION:

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Or by mailing it to 610 E California Ave, Glendale, CA 91206 to the Friends of Music.

The Glendale Noon Concerts series is presented by Glendale City Church every first & third Wednesday at 12:10-12:40 pm. www.glendalecitychurch.org

Concert schedule: www.glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com

Glendale City Church also presents the Second Saturday Concert Series,

http://glendalecitychurch.org/index.php/ministries/second-saturday-concert-series.html  

and sponsors the Caesura Youth Orchestra http://www.mycyo.org

Much appreciation to the Hennings-Fischer Foundation for their mission to support art & education and their generous grant to GNC.
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ARTIST BIOS:

Jacqueline Suzuki, violin, is a longtime member of the Long Beach and Santa Barbara Symphonies. A native of San Francisco, she began her earliest chamber music studies on scholarship at the San Francisco Conservatory. She has performance degrees from the Mannes College of Music (BM), where she studied with William Kroll, and the California Institute of the Arts (MFA).

As a Los Angeles freelancer, she has performed with many ensembles and in many genres, from rock, jazz, Latin and Arabic, to playing in the pit for the Bolshoi Ballet and onstage with the Three Tenors. She has recorded with diverse artists: Snoop Dogg, Neil Sedaka, Leonard Cohen, Whitney Houston, Bocelli, Lalo Schifrin, McCoy Tyner, Placido Domingo and many others, and appears on recordings by the Long Beach, Santa Barbara and Pacific Symphonies. She has spent summers at the Peter Britt, Oregon Coast, Carmel Bach and Cabrillo Festivals and has performed in a string quartet “in residence” on a raft trip down the Green River in Utah. Tours have taken her many times to Japan, Taiwan, Mexico, Canada, Europe, the Middle East and throughout the US.


Pianist Brendan White has appeared as soloist with the Jackson Symphony Orchestra, Musica Nova (Eastman School of Music), Delta Symphony Orchestra, Crown City Symphony, and the Vicente Chamber Orchestra. White’s collaborations in Southern California have included the Mühlfeld Trio, which won the prestigious Beverly Hills Auditions, the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, the Speakeasy Society, and Eighteen Squared. He is also a founding member of the Sunset ChamberFest in Los Angeles; www.sunsetchamberfest.com 

Local recital appearances include: Glendale Noon Concerts, Pasadena Presbyterian Music at Noon, Music@Mimoda, Mason Concerts, Emerging Artist Series Recital at Boston Court, Soundwaves series in Santa Monica.

White was born and raised in Tennessee before attending Eastman to study with Thomas Schumacher, and then, the University of Southern California, with Kevin Fitz-Gerald, where he was awarded Outstanding Master’s Graduate of the Thornton School of Music. As a devoted performer of new music, he has worked with notable composers and conductors including Thomas Adès, Donald Crockett, Alan Pierson, Steven Stucky and Jeffrey Milarsky.

 

PROGRAM NOTES:

 

https://www.earsense.org/chamber-music/Wolfgang-Amadeus-Mozart-Violin-Sonata-in-F-major-K-377/

https://www.laphil.com/musicdb/pieces/3490/sonata-in-f-k-377

 

 

‘We do not normally associate the name Franz Liszt with chamber music–the intimate and restrained nature of chamber music seems far removed from the extroverted virtuosity of much of of Liszt’s music. But he did write a small number of works for chamber ensembles. During the mid-1830s, when Liszt–then in his twenties–was based in Paris and making his career as a virtuoso pianist, he met the French violinist and composer Charles Philippe Lafont (1781-1839). Out of this friendship came a piece we know today as Liszt’s Grand Duo Concertante, though evidence suggests that it was composed as a collaboration between the two men. They probably performed the Grand Duo in Paris, but the music was still in manuscript when Lafont was killed in 1839 when his carriage overturned. Liszt retained his affection for this music, however, and he returned to it in 1849 and revised it. The Grand Duo was finally published in 1852, nearly two decades after it had been first composed.

The title Grand Duo Concertante suggests a virtuoso work, and this is indeed virtuoso music: it is beautifully written for both instruments, both instruments have cadenza-like passages along the way, and the idiomatic writing for violin suggests that Lafont had a great deal to do with creating that part. While the Grand Duo may be a virtuoso piece, it takes the form of a set of variations, and those variations are based on the song Le marin (“The Sailor”) by Lafont himself. A dramatic and substantial introduction leads to Lafont’s gentle melody, stated first by the violin and then taken up by the piano. Four variations follow, and these give both performers plenty of opportunity to shine. The Grand Duo is rounded off by a lengthy finale, and Lafont’s original melody makes a brilliant reappearance in the course of the rush to the close.” LA JOLLA CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY