GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS 4/15/26

 

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 April 15, 2026 

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 APRIL 15, 2026 at 12:10-12:40 pm PT 

 

VIOLIN RECITAL

 

JOHANA KREJCI - VIOLIN

 

VALERIA MORGOVSKAYA - PIANO

 

Giuseppe Tartini

Sonata in G minor for Violin and Piano

Adagio

Non troppo presto

Allegro commodo

 

Antonin Dvorak

Four Romantic Pieces for Violin and Piano

Allegro moderato

Allegro maestoso

Allegro appasionato

Larghetto

 

Jules Massenet

 Meditation from Thais 

 

Edward Elgar

Salut d'amour 

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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 event page:

https://www.facebook.com/events/933790579634647 

 

Preview of the next concert:

MAy 6, 2026 at 12:10 pm PT

Pianist BRENDAN WHITE

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Etudes-Tableaux Op. 33

D minor

C Major

E-flat minor

C minor

C-sharp minor

Frederick Rzewski

Stop the War, from The Road

ARTIST BIOS: 

Johana Krejci graduated from the Prague Conservatoire in Violin Performance under the tutelage of Prof. Nora Grumlikova. She was accepted to the Royal Academy of Music and studied in London with Prof. Trevor Williams. She continued her studies at the university of Southern California in the class of Miss Eudice Shapiro. In the summers of 1989 and 1990 Johana participated in the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute. Johana has traveled the United States and the world with her violin playing with various groups. She has made California her home where she teaches and performs. Johana likes working with musicians and likes to contract musical groups. Apart from playing, she is the Personnel manager of the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony.

Valeria Morgovskaya, pianist, graduated from the Kiev State Conservatory. Since her immigration to the US in 1990, Ms Morgovskaya has been in high demand as accompanist for singers and all orchestral instrumentalists. She has been an official accompanist to festivals and courses such as Piatigorsky Cello Seminar and Beverly Hills Music Festival, and has performed throughout the US, Germany and Japan, as well as on numerous radio broadcast. She has provided accompaniment for many national and international competitions, and was an official accompanist at Schoenfeld International String Competition in Hong Kong (2013) and Harbin (2014). Ms. Morgovskaya is currently staff accompanist at Loyola Marymount University and UCLA, and is often engaged in that capacity at USC, Cal State Long Beach, Colburn School, Montecito International Music Festival, Academy of the West and Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts.

GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS 4/1/26

 

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 April 1, 2026 

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 APRIL 1, 2026 at 12:10-12:40 pm PT 

 

FLUTE RECITAL

 

Ellen Burr -flute

 

Lorenzo Sánchez -piano

 

ERWIN SCHULHOFF

Sonata for Flute and Piano (1927)

I.               Allegro moderato

II.             Scherzo

III.           Aria Andante

IV.          Rondo-Finale

 

PAUL HINDEMITH

Sonate for Flute & Piano (1936) 

                                   

I.               Heiter bewegt

II.             Sehr langsam

III.           Sehr lebhaft – Marsch

 

CHARLES WIDOR

Suite for Flute & Piano (1894) 

III.       Romance

II.        Scherzo

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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 event page:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1225399985992069

 

Preview of the next concert:

APRIL 15, 2026 at 12:10 pm PT

JOHANA KREJCI - violin

VALERIA MORGOVSKAYA- piano

Works by Tartini, Dvorak, Massenet, & Elgar

ARTIST BIOS:

Ellen Burr is a masterful flutist known for exploring new directions in contemporary music. With over fifty years of experience, she has earned international recognition as a performer, teacher, improviser, and composer. She continually expands the possibilities of the flute, from classical to experimental (watch her introduction to a Piazzolla tango: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rg6QGduTyk&t=6s

Since 1975, Ellen has soloed with orchestras across the United States and premiered numerous works by contemporary composers. She performs regularly with the Los Angeles Flute Orchestra, the Present Quartet, and Andrea Centazzo’s West Coast Chamber Ensemble, among others.

 

A dedicated educator, Ellen maintains an active private studio in Los Angeles and has taught at the California Institute of the Arts, Wichita State University, and institutions throughout the U.S., the U.K., and Canada. A Yamaha clinician since 1990, she is known for integrating solid technique with creative discovery.

She holds degrees from Wichita State University (BM) and the California Institute of the Arts (MFA), and earned the Certificat de Stage studying with Jean-Pierre Rampal in France. Her compositions, method books, and graphic scores are published under her EClectic Buzz label.

 

Lorenzo Sánchez, pianist, has enjoyed interpreting music of a variety of styles and nationalities in the United, States, Mexico, and Europe. Lorenzo premiered Robert Guillory’s Concertino for Piano and Orchestra.   His interest in Polish music led to him giving several lecture-performances at several Paderewski Festivals in Paso Robles, California. In 2005, he performed works by African-American composer George Walker and Japanese composer Mitsuru Asaka in Hawaii. He has played for several choirs touring Italy and The Vatican in 2004 and again in 2013. He has edited and helped publish piano works by Mexican composer Domingo Lobato.  As a collaborator, he has performed and recorded as member of various instrumental duos which include flutist Ellen Burr, violinist Nancy Roth, and clarinetist Virginia Figueiredo. His recordings are available on iTunes, Amazon, and Spotify.  Lorenzo holds a DMA from USC.

 

PROGRAM NOTES:

Erwin Schulhoff (1894 –1942) was an Austro-Czech composer and pianist. He was one of the figures in the generation of European musicians whose successful careers were prematurely terminated by the rise of the Nazi regime in Germanyand whose works have been rarely noted or performed beyond Czechoslovakia until the 1980s. 

Schulhoff wrote Sonata for Flute and Piano for his friend, the flutist René le Roy. The Sonata’s four movements pass by in a flash. It is a brilliant example of European neoclassicism, blending traditional form with 1920s jazz, Slavic folk elements, and cabaret wit. This four-movement work is characterized by rhythmic vitality, harmonic boldness, and a spirited, sometimes ironic, dialogue between the instruments. 

 

Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) was a composer, theorist, violist, and conductor who, along with KurtWeill and Ernst Krenek, became a driving force of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement in post-WWI Germanic music, a style that rejected Romantic expression and focused on “objective” music-making through motivic development, polyphony of musically independent lines, and use of familiar elements from popular music or the Classical and Baroque eras. 

Hindemith composed the Sonate for Flute and Piano (1936) for his colleague, flutist Gustav Scheck. The Sonate is one of a set of 26 sonatas completed between 1935 and 1955. The three-movement sonata demonstrates Hindemith’s unique harmonic language, Neo-Classical idioms, and the Neue Sachlichkeit style. Each movement is an exploration of motivic development using primarily three musically independent lines, and the expanded third movement concludes with a parody of a military march.

Charles Widor (1844-1937), a French organist, composer and teacher is known for his ten organ symphonies. He succeeded César Frank as the organ professor at the Paris Conservatory in 1890 before becoming a composition professor there six years later.

Suite for Flute and Piano, written for Paul Taffanel, sits between Romanticism and emerging Impressionism, featuring lyrical, expressive melodies alongside technical, rapid-fire passages.   The Romance, the emotional heart of the work, is characterized, by, a, long, vocal-style melody, sometimes compared to Schumann. The Scherzo is a fast, light-hearted, and, technical movement that tests the agility of both players, featuring, a contrasting, calmer trio section.

 

GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS 3/18/26

 

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 March 18, 2026 

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 MARCH 18, 2026 at 12:10-12:40 pm PT 

 

AMERICAN  CLASSICS

 

Brendan White - piano 

Program:
Scott Joplin (1868-1917)
The Cascades
The Entertainer
Bethena

George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Three Preludes

Pine Apple Rag – Joplin

William Bolcom (b.1938)
Graceful Ghost Rag

Maple Leaf Rag – Joplin

Scott Joplin was an American composer and pianist. Dubbed the "King of Ragtime", he composed more than 40 ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas. He received the Pulitzer Prize posthumously in 1976.

Gershwin's three most famous preludes, written in 1927, demonstrate his genius for piano writing. "Prelude I" exudes energetic syncopation, "Prelude II" is a lyric blues, and "Prelude III" closes the set with exciting syncopations.

 “Graceful Ghost Rag” 

Written in 1970 in memory of Bolcom's father, the piece combines the traditional rag style and pianistic features of the romantic musical era.

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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 event page:

 https://www.facebook.com/events/923380930583976 

Preview of the next concert:

APRIL 1, 2026 at 12:10 pm PT

ELLEN BURR- flute

LORENZO SANCHEZ- piano

Works by Erwin Schulhoff, Paul Hindemith,

and Charles Widor 

 ARTIST BIO:

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.