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
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
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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.
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