Free Admission Glendale Noon Concerts 4/4/18

FREE ADMISSION GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS

Every FIRST & THIRD WEDNESDAY at 12:10-12:40 pm 

On Wednesday, APRIL 4, 2018 at 12:10-12:40 pm:

BRENDAN WHITE, Pianist

Program:

Ludwig van Beethoven  

Piano Sonata No.32 in c minor, Op.111

Maestoso – Allegro con brio ed appassionato

Arietta: Adagio molto semplice e cantabile

Claude Debussy  

Pagodes, from Estampes

Please scroll down for artist bio. 

 

RELAX DURING YOUR LUNCH HOUR WITH LIVE MUSIC

PLEASE NOTE:

The Glendale Noon Concerts series now takes place

in the Sanctuary at

GLENDALE CITY CHURCH

610 E. California Ave (at Isabel St)

Glendale, CA 91206

INFO:
(NO SOLICITATIONS, PLEASE: Glendale Noon Concerts
is not accepting artists to the program.)

Call 818-244-7241 (office)

or email glendalesda@gmail.com

General info & parking:

http://glendalecitychurch.org/our-location/

https://www.facebook.com/glendalecitychurch

http://www.glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com/

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UPCOMING CONCERTS in the same series:

(every FIRST & THIRD WEDNESDAY at 12:10-12:40 pm; 

programs subject to change)

APRIL 18, 2018
DIMITRY OLEVSKY Solo Violin Recital:
DANIEL SCHNYDER The Four Winds
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA Six Tango Etudes
https://www.dimitryolevsky.com 
http://www.danielschnyder.com 


MAY 2, 2018
CALICO WINDS
A resident ensemble at the Glendale Noon Concerts .
http://calicowinds.com 
Skizzen by Jan Bach based on cartoons by Heinrich Kley

MAY 16, 2018
ROBERT SCHUMANN Piano Quartet in Eb major, Op. 47
JACQUELINE SUZUKI - violin
ADRIANA ZOPPO - viola
CLEMENT CHOW - cello
BRENDAN WHITE - piano 


JUNE 6, 2018
SERGEI PROKOFIEV Violin Sonata No.1 in F minor, Op.80

JACQUELINE SUZUKI - violin

BRENDAN WHITE - piano


JUNE 20, 2018

Works by J.S. Bach & W.A. Mozart 
JACQUELINE SUZUKI - violin
FRANK BASILE - piano

JULY 4, 2018
National Holiday!
No concert...

JULY 18, 2018

KATHERINE MARSH Flute Recital     
https://www.kathymarshflute.net/bio
BRENDAN WHITE -piano

HENRI DUTILLEUX Sonatine for flute and piano (1943)

OLIVIER MESSIAEN Le Merle Noir (1952)

AUGUST 1, 2018

PAUL HINDEMITH Quartet for clarinet, violin, cello & piano (1938)

JAMES SULLIVAN - clarinet

JACQUELINE SUZUKI - violin

DEREK STEIN - cello

BRENDAN WHITE - piano

https://www.allmusic.com/composition/quartet -for-clarinet-violin-cello-piano-mc0002383518

AUGUST 15, 2018

IGOR STRAVINSKY Duo Concertant for violin & piano

and more...

NANCY ROTH - violin

LORENZO SANCHEZ - piano

https://www.earsense.org/chamberbase/works/detail/?pkey=9253 

CONCERT UPDATES:

http://www.glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com/ MORE FREE CONCERTS:
At the Edendale Branch Library in ECHO PARK
http://www.edendaleupclose.blogspot.com/

Artist bio:

Originally from Tennessee, Brendan White enjoys the diverse life of a pianist in Los Angeles, where he combines his love of the traditional classical piano repertoire with an avid interest in genre-bending modern and experimental music. White studied with Alice Jackson in Tennessee before attending the Eastman School of Music to study with Thomas Schumacher and then University of Southern California with Kevin Fitz-Gerald, where he was awarded Outstanding Master’s Graduate of the Thornton School of Music. He has performed as soloist with the Jackson Symphony Orchestra, Eastman’s Musica Nova, and the Delta Symphony Orchestra. As a devoted performer of new music, he has worked with notable composers and conductors including Thomas Adès, Donald Crockett, Alan Pierson, Steven Stucky and Jeffrey Milarsky. White is a member of the Mühlfeld Clarinet Trio, winners of the Beverly Hills Auditions, which performs traditional chamber music alongside brand new works for clarinet, cello and piano. He collaborates regularly with the immersive theater group the Speakeasy Society, whose shows often feature largely improvised music that evolves with the narrative. In addition to playing piano, White can occasionally be spotted as a secret organist, percussionist, or tenor.

Free Admission Glendale Noon Concerts 3/21/18

FREE ADMISSION GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS

Every FIRST & THIRD WEDNESDAY at 12:10-12:40 pm 

On Wednesday, MARCH 21, 2018 at 12:10-12:40 pm:

 

 Music from the Belle Époque

 Nancy Fierro, piano

Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)

                                                                                          

Trois Morceaux pour piano 

D’un vieux jardin  (Of an old  garden)                                                                                                                                
D’un jardin clair  (Of a bright garden)

Cortège  (A Festive Parade)             
                                                                                                                                                     

Cecile Chaminade (1857-1944)

Concert Etude Op. 35 No. 2 (Autumn)

                                                                                                                             

Les Sylvains Op. 60

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

Clair de lune

Ballade

Danse (Tarentelle Styrienne)

PROGRAM NOTES

The Belle Époque was a span of time between two wars—the Franco Prussian war which ended in 1871 and World War I which began in 1914. During this period of peace and prosperity in France, the arts and sciences flourished. Today’s concert features piano music composed by three Belle Époque composers: Lili Boulanger, Cecile Chaminade and Claude Debussy.                                           

Lili Boulanger, younger sister of noted composition teacher Nadia Boulanger, was a brilliant child prodigy who composed a small body of highly original work before her untimely death at age 24.  She wrote her Trois Morceaux for piano in 1914 just after winning the prestigious Prix de Rome award in composition .She was the first and youngest woman to receive this coveted prize. In her first piece About a Old Garden, we sense both grief and nostalgia for the passing of a beautiful era. Her second piece, A Bright Garden, is radiant and happy. In it we can hear bells from a distant monastery ring through the leaves. Cortège depicts a joyful parade with a few fireworks heard in short bursts of the sound as the music closes.

Cecile Chaminade was a prolific composer and a brilliant pianist. She wrote over two hundred works for the piano, gave numerous concert tours in Europe and was also popular in America. Her music written in the spirit of the Romantics, reflects her love of nature and superb gift for melody. She composed this Etude while staying at her country home in Perigord, France--a property covered with blue lavender, pink heather and bordered by ash and elm trees. The music opens with a quiet reverie in her garden interrupted midway by a blast of autumn wind. After the storm, the gentle reverie returns. Les Sylvains (The Fauns), portrays both the erotic and impish characteristics of these mythical forest beins who are part goat and part human. .

The three pieces by Claude Debussy were early works composed in the 1890’s. The original title for Clair de lune was “Promenade Sentimentale.” Later, in the 1900’s when Debussy was famous and his music was in demand, he revised the score and changed the title to Clair de Lune after a dreamlike poem of the same name by the Symbolist poet Paul Verlaine.

Please scroll down for artist bio. 

 

RELAX DURING YOUR LUNCH HOUR WITH LIVE MUSIC

PLEASE NOTE:

The Glendale Noon Concerts series now takes place

in the Sanctuary at

GLENDALE CITY CHURCH

610 E. California Ave (at Isabel St)

Glendale, CA 91206

INFO:
(NO SOLICITATIONS, PLEASE: Glendale Noon Concerts
is not accepting artists to the program.)

Call 818-244-7241 (office)

or email glendalesda@gmail.com

General info & parking:

http://glendalecitychurch.org/our-location/

https://www.facebook.com/glendalecitychurch

http://www.glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com/

*************************************

UPCOMING CONCERTS in the same series:

(every FIRST & THIRD WEDNESDAY at 12:10-12:40 pm; 

programs subject to change):

http://www.glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com/ 

Artist bio:

http://www.nancyfierro.com

NANCY FIERRO performs both nationally and internationally and has recorded four commercial albums. Legendary musician Nadia Boulanger praised her as a “real pianistic talent” with deep musical understanding.”  Her pioneering performances of music by women composers have won several awards including a Certificate of Honor from the Third International Congress of Women in Music. For five consecutive years, she was selected as a Touring Artist by the California Arts Council. In addition to her concerts, Nancy regularly gave preconcert lectures for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Pasadena Symphony and Pacific Symphony. She was a long-time member of the piano faculty at Mount St. Mary's University in Los Angeles. Nancy holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Southern California and a Certificate in Piano, Theory and Analysis from the American Conservatory of Fine Arts in France.