Streaming
on FACEBOOK & YouTube
Glendale Noon Concerts 4/20/22
CALICO WINDS
During
the Covid-19 "Safer at Home" period,
Glendale
Noon Concerts will bring our programs
to you via streaming on Facebook and YouTube:
The APRIL 20, 2022 program can be viewed at this
link beginning
at 12:10 pm PT. (VIDEO will be available
ongoing)
LINK TO VIEW THE CONCERT:
On Facebook:
https://fb.watch/cuILUd7jXk/
On YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI3ytSDghP4
The
program will be archived on the
Glendale City Church YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/c/GlendaleCityChurch
Watch previous Glendale Noon Concerts streams:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oAfaPgGGMw&list=PLms1LJpnTpJzK7Yf6ryh2zyFMlkl7qC2z
Read about the previous
programs:
http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com
Facebook stream: GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS
Every FIRST & THIRD WEDNESDAY at 12:10 pm PT
On Wednesday APRIL
20, 2022 at 12:10 pm PT:
Program:
Calico Winds
Eileen Holt, Flute
Marissa Honda, Oboe (guest artist)
Kathryn Nevin, Clarinet
Theresa Treuenfels, Bassoon
Rachel Berry, Horn
Gwyneth Walker (b.1947)
"Nearer My God To Thee" from Braintree
Quintet (1988)
Ihor
Shamo (1925-1982)/arr. M.
Zakopets
Moldavian Dance (1956)
David
Baker (1931-2016)
Woodwind Quintet from The Black Frontier (1971)
William
Grant Still (1895-1978)/arr. A.
Lesnick
Miniatures (1948)
I Ride an Old Paint USA
Adolorido Mexico
Jesus
is a Rock in the Weary Land USA
Yaravi Peru
A Frog Went a-Courtin' USA
Folk Suite No. 4 (1963)
El Monigote Venezuela
Anda Buscando de Rosa en Rosa Mexico
Tayêras Brazil
Valerie Coleman (b. 1970)
Umoja The First Day of Kwanzaa (2001)
Facebook April 20 event page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/730027685033098/
Please
check the site below for updates:
http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com
Streaming on Wednesday MAY 4, 2022 at 12:10-12:40 pm PT
DUO RECITAL
Ken
Aiso -violin
Valeria
Morgovskaya -piano
PLEASE
HELP THESE CONCERTS TO CONTINUE WITH A DONATION:
https://adventistgiving.org/#/org/ANPPGL/envelope/start
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.
RELAX DURING YOUR LUNCH HOUR WITH LIVE MUSIC
ENSEMBLE BIO:
Website: http://calicowinds.com
With style and grace,
Calico Winds is taking wind music to the forefront of the chamber music world
by artfully reinventing the conventional wind quintet.
They chose the name “Calico” to reflect the many colors and
textures offered by the instruments of their ensemble. The group blends
top-notch playing, great music and an appealing atmosphere, their repertoire
incorporating a wide variety of classical music. “They cross all the style
lines and get away with it.” (Los Angeles Times).
Calico Winds have delighted audiences across the country,
touring to more than half the fifty states, including numerous cities
throughout their home state of California. They are currently
ensemble-in-residence at Glendale Noon Concerts. Said of their program, “The
artists played in perfect balance with each other, each contributing lovely
tone quality and flawless intonation. An unusually fine and beautiful
program…played with rock-solid competence and interpretive flair. It was a
fantastic evening of music.” (The Times Herald, Olean, NY)
In 2009 Calico Winds were concerto soloists with Frank Fetta
conducting the Culver City Symphony, premiering Sinfonia Concertante for wind
quintet and orchestra, a work they commissioned from Los Angeles composer
Damian Montano. The ensemble performed at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall
both as part of the “Classical Connections” Young Performers Career Advancement
program sponsored by the Association of Performing Arts Presenters and in
recital with pianist Vivian Liu in a performance of Ludwig Thuille’s Romantic
Sextet.
In 1998 Calico Winds released their first CD, All in One [Bach,
Nielsen, E. Carter, L. Schifrin, Zappa] to critical acclaim. Their second CD,
released on Albany Records (2004), Vintage America: A Musical Meritage,
features a diverse collection of original and arranged works reflecting the
music and life of early Americans. In this recording “Calico Winds bring
refreshing lightness to music that is too often bellowed…the quintet’s suave
phrasing, lively articulation and rhythmic buoyancy are a delight throughout.”
(Gramophone)
Calico Winds has held residencies at La Sierra University, the
Idyllwild Arts Academy and with the Claremont Youth Symphony Music Retreat in
California as well as at the Birch Creek Music Festival in Door County,
Wisconsin. They have been the featured ensemble for the Coleman Chamber Music
Association’s Meet the Musicians concerts. As winners of the 1998 National
Flute Association (NFA) Chamber Music Competition the ensemble was featured in
recital at the NFA convention in Phoenix, Arizona. They have received a grant
from the City of Pasadena for The Weekend Muse Inter-Generational Concerts, a
series they self-produced in Los Angeles and Pasadena.
The members of Calico Winds think of themselves as a team whose
sum is greater than its parts. Despite their resisting the publishing of
individual bios, presenters and audience members continue to be interested in
each person on stage. To satisfy this curiosity, they have developed “Calico
Stats” (vital statistics of each member) which you can view on their website
calicowinds.com.
PROGRAM NOTES:
"Nearer My God To Thee" from Braintree
Quintet (1988)
Gwyneth Walker (b.1947)
The Braintree Quintet is a contemporary
presentation of traditional hymns found in the hymnals of the Community First
Baptist Church of Braintree, Vermont. This piece was written when American
composer Gwyneth Walker lived on a dairy farm in that very city. Her
music is widely performed throughout the country, and is beloved by performers
and audiences alike for its energy, beauty, reverence, drama, and
humor. Walker is a graduate of Brown University and the Hartt School of
Music, taught at Oberlin Conservatory and how having retired from teaching,
lives in her childhood hometown of New Canaan, Connecticut.
Moldavian Dance (1956)
Ihor
Shamo (1925-1982)/arr. M. Zakopets
Ihor N. Shamo was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, and
graduated from Kyiv Conservatoire. He took part in the “Great Patriotic War”
and was awarded several medals. Shamo has composed for all types of vocal and
instrumental music, and some is strongly influenced by Ukrainian traditional
and folk elements. His contributios to the cultural life of the Ukraine has led
to his recognition as a People’s Artist and and an Honorable Arts Worker of Ukraine.
This quintet was arranged from a dance episode of his symphonic poem Moldavian
Rhapsody.
Woodwind Quintet from The Black Frontier (1971)
David Baker
(1931-2016)
was
an American jazz composer,
conductor, and musician from Indianapolis,
as well as a professor of jazz studies at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Baker
is best known as an educator and founder of the jazz studies program. he
became one of the co-musical directors of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks
Orchestra in 1991. He composed music, mostly on
commission, and wrote hundreds of scholarly works related to music. This work incorporates folk and western tunes with
modern classical treatment, is somewhat whimsical and surprising, and features
a musical palindrome, where the notes of its conclusion are in the exact
opposite order of the way the piece began.
Miniatures (1948)
William Grant Still (1895-1978)/arr. A.
Lesnick
I Ride an Old Paint USA
Adolorido Mexico
Jesus is a Rock in the Weary Land USA
Yaravi Peru
A Frog Went
a-Courtin' USA
Folk Suite No. 4 (1963)
El Monigote Venezuela
Anda Buscando de
Rosa en Rosa Mexico
Tayêras Brazil
William Grant Still was the first African
American composer to conduct a major symphony orchestra, have a symphonic work
performed by a major orchestra, and have an opera performed by a major opera
company. He was a successful commercial arranger for theater and radio, W.C.
Handy, and Paul Whiteman. He studied at Oberlin Conservatory and New England
Conservatory, his most notable teachers being Edgar Varese and George Chadwick.
Together Miniatures and Folk Suite No. 4 offer an anthology of regional America
folk music. Each movement not only presents an authentic folk tune, but also
vividly reflects the cultural and geographical setting of the music.
Umoja The First Day of Kwanzaa (2001)
Valerie
Coleman (b. 1970)
Valerie Coleman is an African American composer and flutist, and founding
member of the wind quintet Imani Winds. She is a native of Louisville, Kentucky, and earned a
double B.A. in theory/composition and flute performance from Boston University. She then
graduated with a Masters
Degree in flute performance from Mannes College of
Music. Her piece Umoja in 2002 was listed as
one of the "Top 101 Great American Works" by Chamber Music
America. It has been vastly expanded, developed and reworked, into an
orchestral composition which was premiered by the Philadelphia Orchestra in
2019 entitled Umoja,
Anthem for Unity. Coleman’s
work is engaging and colorful, showing her intimate understanding of the
instruments of the wind quintet. It’s tone and cross rhythms drawing from
African music.
