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 SEPTEMBER 3, 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
Wednesday SEPTEMBER 3, 2025 at 12:10-12:40 pm PT
Brendan White – piano
Stephen Andrew
Taylor: Seven Memorials
I. Fountain
II. Glacier
III. Plateau
IV. Baobab
V. Cloud Forest
VI. Black Smoker
VII. Satellite
Program note by Stephen Andrew Taylor:
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 park
Site 2 Antarctica, the first international park
Site 3 Tibet, gateway to the sky
Site 4 Africa, the last great plains
Site 5 The Amazon, forest of the world
Site 6 The ocean floor
Site 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.
SCROLL DOWN TO SEE ARTIST BIO:
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 9/3/25 event page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1816485912638813
Preview of the next concert:
Wednesday SEPTEMBER 17, 2025 at 12:10-12:40 pm
Splntrd Wood
Brendan White is a Grammy-award-winning artist whose performances feature a wide range of classical and contemporary piano repertoire. Brendan is based in the L.A. area, where he collaborates with orchestras, chamber ensembles, and solo artists. He is a featured musician on Danaë Vlasse’s Grammy Award-winning album, 'Mythologies'. Brendan performs solo recitals celebrating new composers and historically overlooked masterpieces. His collaborations include performances with with the Eastman School’s Musica Nova, Vicente Chamber Orchestra, Global Harmony Symphony, Jackson Symphony, Symphony of the Verdugos, and more. As one of Piano Sphere's Emerging Artists, he has worked with notable composers and conductors including Thomas Adès, Alma Deutscher, Alan Pierson, Donald Crockett, and Steven Stucky.
A Tennessee native, Brendan studied at the Eastman School of Music and University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music. In addition to his performance career, Brendan is passionate about music education and teaches students of all ages. He is an original member of the annual Sunset Chamberfest in Los Angeles, which features the work of young composers in Southern California.
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