GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS (Live in person free concerts) 6/4/25

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

On Wednesday JUNE 4, 2025 

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.  

 610 E. California Ave Glendale, CA 91206

 

PARKING INFO:

https://glendalecitychurch.org/location

 

Glendale Noon Concerts  6/4/25

Program:

MARI HAIG- violin, viola

CHRISTINE SOTOMAYOR LOPEZ - piano

J.S. Bach (German, 1685-1750)

Prelude from Solo Suite 4 for viola solo

 

Jules Massenet (French, 1842-1912)

Meditation from Thais 

 

Aram Khachaturian (Soviet Armenian,1903-1978)

Nocturne from Masquerade Suite

 

Isaac Albeniz (Spanish, 1860-1909)

Sevilla 

 

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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 6/4/25 event page:

https://www.facebook.com/events/601031549055467

 

Preview of the next concert:

Wednesday JUNE 18, 2025

ERGO MUSICA:

Adriana Zoppo perform solo pieces for the viola d'amore

Program:

Improvisation for Solo Viola d'amore by Karl Stumpf

Aglaea from Charites by Kirstin Fife

Studio-Capriccio No. 8 by Aurelio Arcidiacono

Studio Modale by Aurelio Arcidiacono

Adagio and Giga by Louis-Toussaint Milandre

 

 Performer bios:

Mari Haig, violin, served as concertmaster in tribute concerts for the Double Coronation of King

 

Charles and Queen Camilla, for Queen Elizabeth's 60th Diamond Jubilee, and for the Royal

 

Wedding of Prince William and Princess Kate Middleton. In the U.S., Mari is assistant

 

concertmaster of the St John Chamber Orchestra. She has played in the Chamber Orchestra of

 

the South Bay, the Los Angeles Baroque and the Disneyland Candlelight Orchestras, Musica

 

Angelica, Long Beach, Riverside, Pacific, Pasadena, Desert, San Diego Symphonies, and Burbank

 

Philharmonic. Mari has performed with a broad range of artists, including Stevie Wonder,

 

Lionel Ritchie, Henry Mancini, Buddy Rich, Dionne Warwick, Johnny Mathis, Mannheim

 

Steamroller and for Carla Morrison at the Hollywood Bowl. Mari is the concertmaster and

 

arranger/orchestrator for singer Mario Bryant. Mari is featured on countless CD's, including

 

"Echoes of Vilna," which is in the Library of Congress. Her improvisation on violin, viola, and

 

cello, can be heard on Emmy Award winning soundtracks for television shows, including "The

 

Bold and the Beautiful."

 

Christine Sotomayor Lopez received her undergraduate and graduate degrees in piano performance and accompanying from the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, where she also holds a Doctorate Degree in Choral Conducting.  As a pianist/accompanist, she has toured throughout the United States and Mexico as an accompanist for many outstanding instrumentalists and vocalists. She held the position as opera coach for Arizona Opera, Four Corners Opera and Chautauqua Summer Opera Program. She is emeritus faculty at Cerritos Community College. She was the coordinator of the Keyboard Studies program and Director of the Applied Music Program for 31 years. Dr. Lopez was chosen “Cerritos College Most Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year" for 1997-98. Her musical credits as conductor and musical director at Cerritos College include: Amahl and the Night Visitors, Die Fledermaus, Pippin, West Side Story, Once On This Island, Cabaret, Anything Goes, Godspell, Urinetown and Three Penny Opera.  She is the music director and organist at St. Cyprian’s Catholic Church in Long Beach, Scholarship chairman of the Orange County Sigma Alpha Iota alumnae chapter, active member of the MTAC Lakewood-Cerritos chapter, orchestral pianist for Whittier Regional Symphony, Bellflower Symphony, Peninsula Symphony and the Long Beach Community Band and choral accompanist at Fullerton.

GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS (Live in person free concerts) 5/21/25

 

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

On Wednesday MAY 21, 2025 

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.  

 610 E. California Ave Glendale, CA 91206

 

PARKING INFO:

https://glendalecitychurch.org/location

 

Glendale Noon Concerts  5/21/25

FIATO QUARTET

Carrie Kennedy – violin

Joel Pargman – violin

Aaron Oltman -viola

Ryan Sweeney – cello

https://www.fiatoquartet.com

Program:

Franz Joseph Haydn

Quartet in E flat Major, Op. 33, no. 2 "The Joke"  

1.    Allegro moderato

2.    Scherzo: Allegro

3.    Largo

4.     Presto

Florence B. Price

Quartet No. 2 in A Minor

                            3. Juba: Allegro

 

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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 5/21/25 event page:

 https://www.facebook.com/events/499284079846595

Preview of the next concert:

Wednesday JUNE 4, 2025

 

Mari Haig – violin, viola

 

Christine Lopez -piano

 

Prelude from Solo Suite 4. (Viola)  J.S. Bach

Meditation from Thaiis  J. Massenet

Nocturne from Masquerade Suite. A Khachaturian 

Sevilla  I. Albeniz

 

Performer bios:

 

Fiato Quartet, winner of the 2022 Beverly Hills National Auditions, was formed in 2008. In addition to their acclaimed work as Fiato, they are also members of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Pasadena Symphony, Long Beach Symphony, New West Symphony, and Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra. As studio musicians in Los Angeles, they also record music for movies and television. In addition to the standard quartet repertoire, Fiato has a passion for new music. They have premiered ten new string quartets by local composers, including works by Julia Adolphe and Adam Schoenberg. Each member of Fiato brings a unique set of experiences and training to the ensemble, having studied with the Tokyo, Takacs, Guarneri, American, Miami and Emerson Quartets. https://www.fiatoquartet.com

 

Program notes:

 

We will start the program today with a quartet by Franz Joseph Haydn, who was known as the father of the string quartet. Haydn wrote 68 string quartets. This quartet is Haydn’s 2nd quartet from his op. 33 set of 6 quartets, published in 1782. Haydn described these quartets as being written in a new and special way. One new and special feature of these quartets is the fact that in all 6, Haydn wrote a Scherzo instead of the typical Minuet movement. Scherzo literally means “joke,” and this 2nd quartet has been nicknamed “The Joke.” You will soon see why. The first movement begins with lots of playful banter between the instruments. The Scherzo has a trio which sounds as though the 2nd violinist is playing a broken Hurdy-gurdy, and the first violinist has had too much to drink. This is followed by a beautiful, somewhat serious slow movement, but Haydn, the jokester, comes back in the 4th movement where he brings home the punch line.

 

We will end the concert with a piece by Florence Price, who was a true pioneer for women and Black composers. Born in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1887, Price went on to earn degrees in piano and organ performance at the New England Conservatory. She composed her first symphony in 1931 and it was premiered by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra the following year. This was the first work by a Black woman to be performed by a major symphony orchestra. Despite her very successful and prodigious career as a composer, Price was nearly forgotten after her death in 1953. It wasn’t until 2018 when Schirmer announced that it had acquired the publishing rights to Price’s music, that her compositions began to be rediscovered. The first piece to be republished was Price’s 2nd string quartet in 2019. We will now play the 3rd mov, titled “Juba,” from that quartet. Juba is a dance that was originally performed on plantations in the southern U.S. by

enslaved Black people. The most famous Juba dancer from the 19th century was William Henry Lane who popularized the Juba dance which influenced the development of modern tap dance.