Free Admission GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS
Every First & Third Wednesday at 12:10-12:40 pm
has returned to live performances
in the Sanctuary of Glendale City Church!
RELAX DURING YOUR LUNCH HOUR WITH LIVE MUSIC
Please wear a mask in the Sanctuary.
610 E. California Ave Glendale, CA 91206
On Wednesday, OCTOBER 4, 2023 at 12:10 -12:40 pm PT,
the Free Admission Glendale Noon Concerts program
will be performed live in the Sanctuary of Glendale City Church.
PARKING INFO:
https://glendalecitychurch.org/location
Glendale Noon Concerts 10/4/23
at 12:10-12:40 pm PT
BRENDAN WHITE
PIANO RECITAL
Stephen Andrew Taylor:
from Seven Memorials:
I. Fountain
II. Glacier
Frederic Chopin:
Ballade No. 4
Chen Yi:
Plum Blossom
Franz Liszt/Paganini:
La Campanella (from Grand études de Paganini)
Scroll down to see artist bio & program notes:
STILL AVAILABLE! Watch
previous Glendale Noon Concerts streamed concerts
(April 2020-February 1, 2023):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oAfaPgGGMw&list=PLms1LJpnTpJzK7Yf6ryh2zyFMlkl7qC2z
Read about the previous programs:
http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com
Facebook 10/4/23 event page:
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Preview of the NEXT CONCERT:
Wednesday OCTOBER 18, 2023
at 12:10-12:40 pm PT
CATHERINE DEL RUSSO
Works for solo oboe by
Benjamin Britten
Cyril Plante
Jeremy Gilien
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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
Much appreciation to the Hennings-Fischer Foundation for their mission to support art and education and their generous grant to GNC.
ARTIST BIO:
Born in Jackson, Tennessee, but now based in Los Angeles, pianist Brendan White appears frequently in solo recitals and chamber ensembles and as a soloist with orchestra. As soloist, White has performed with Musica Nova (Eastman School of Music), Vicente Chamber Orchestra, Symphony of the Verdugos, Crown City Symphony, Delta Symphony Orchestra and Jackson Symphony Orchestra.
As a recording artist, White was featured on Danaë Vlasse’s Grammy Award-winning album Mythologies. White’s collaborations in Southern California have included the Mühlfeld Trio, which won the prestigious Beverly Hills Auditions, the Speakeasy Society, and Eighteen Squared. He is an original member of the Sunset ChamberFest in Los Angeles. White’s repertoire spans many centuries and genres and he has worked with well-known composers such as Thomas Adès, Stephen Cohn, Donald Crockett and Danaë Vlasse.
White is also a composer of original music. Local recital appearances include: Piano Spheres Emerging Artist Series, Soundwaves in Santa Monica, Silicon Beach CO Recital Series, Glendale Noon Concerts, Pasadena Presbyterian Music at Noon, Music@Mimoda, and Mason Concerts. He attended the Eastman School of Music and the Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California.
PROGRAM NOTES:
Notes by Stephen Andrew Taylor about his piece Seven Memorials:
Seven Memorials is inspired by a project of the artist Maya Lin, to build a “last memorial” dedicated to the extinction of species on our planet. Lin imagines this project having seven different sites:
Site 1 Yellowstone, the first national parkSite 2 Antarctica, the first international parkSite 3 Tibet, gateway to the skySite 4 Africa, the last great plainsSite 5 The Amazon, forest of the worldSite 6 The ocean floorSite 7 Satellite link—watching all sites, monitoring the planet
The scope and ambition of this idea struck me immediately, but I didn’t think of making a piece of music around it until I was studying Olivier Messiaen’s two-hour cycle for piano, Vingt Regards sur l’enfant-Jésus, written in 1944. It occurred to me that Maya Lin’s memorial project could be portrayed as a series of a pieces, “gazes upon the earth” (this is how I envision the last movement, “Satellite”).
Titles for the individual movements come from the need to narrow the subject—although each place is so vast that one could write a whole two hours about any of them, I wanted to keep the entire length around a half-hour. Thus, the first movement becomes a single geyser instead of the entire Yellowstone; a glacier represents all of Antarctica; and so on. A black smoker—the sixth movement—is an underwater volcanic vent, spewing sulfur and lava out of the ocean floor. In many ways this movement, featuring prepared piano strings, is a sort of “rhyme” to the first movement’s volcanic geyser.
Seven Memorials is dedicated in friendship and admiration to the pianist Gloria Cheng, for whom it was written.
Notes by Chen Yi about her piece Plum Blossom:
Commissioned by The Chopin Society of Hong Kong, my piano solo work Plum Blossom was written for the 5th Hong Kong International Piano Competition, for all 15 semi-finalists to perform as the compulsory piece in October 2019.
In Chinese culture, the plum blossom symbolizes nobility, elegance, perseverance, independence, and faithfulness.
The pitch material of the piece is taken from the beginning of the popular Cantonese children's song "Moonlight." There are developments of the initial material in variations throughout the piece, featuring expressions of the image with varied performing techniques for both hands, with the textures in layers.
