Flutist KATHERINE MARSH & Violist PATRICK MARSH
During the Covid-19 "Safer at Home" period,
Glendale Noon Concerts will bring our programs
to you via streaming on Facebook Live and Youtube:
The JULY 1, 2020 program can be viewed at this link
beginning at 12:10 pm PDT:
https://www.facebook.com/kathy.marsh2/posts/10217966612259068
The concert is also available on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDA7TWUQmRo
Glendale City Church Youtube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt6zEXA-8F7CPOixLDWxGBA
Facebook LIVE stream: GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS
Every FIRST & THIRD WEDNESDAY at 12:10 pm PDT
On Wednesday JULY 1, 2020 at 12:10 pm PDT:
Katherine Marsh - flute &
piccolo
Patrick Marsh - viola
(Scroll down for artist bios & program notes)
Program:
Francois Devienne (1759-1803)
Jonathan Bayley
Duo Opus 10 No. 3 C
Minor for flute and viola
Allegro Molto con Expressione
Rondo
Gordon Jacob
(1895-1984)
The Pied Piper for
flute and piccolo
The Spell
The March to the River Weser
Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685-1750)
Suite No. 4 for viola
Prelude
Franz Hoffmeister
(1754 – 1812)
Duo No. 2 D Major for flute and viola
Allegro
Lento
Allegretto
George N. Gianopoulos
Scherzo Opus 26D No.
3 for flute (premiere)
Music for Pan for
Alto Flute
Kirstin Fife
Indoor Games for flute and viola (premiere)
Table Tennis
Chess
Solitaire
Chinese Checkers
Table Tennis
Chess
Solitaire
Chinese Checkers
Please keep checking this site for updates.
A list of upcoming concerts will be posted soon.http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com
Streaming on Wednesday JULY 15, 2020 at 12:10-12:40 pm PDT:
A list of upcoming concerts will be posted soon.http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com
Streaming on Wednesday JULY 15, 2020 at 12:10-12:40 pm PDT:
Violinist JACQUELINE SUZUKI
Pianist BRENDAN WHITE
OTTORINO RESPIGHI Violin Sonata in b minor
Flutist
Katherine Marsh is an active
professional musician and teacher. She is currently the solo piccolo player of
the Santa Barbara Symphony, principal
flute of the San Fernando Valley Symphony Orchestra,
and has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Santa Barbara Grand Opera
and Master Choral, the Hollywood Bowl Orcheatra, Pasadena Symphony, Long Beach
Symphony, as well as other symphony and chamber ensembles throughout
Southern California.
PROGRAM NOTES:
PLEASE HELP THESE CONCERTS TO CONTINUE
WITH A DONATION:
The Glendale Noon Concerts series is presented by Glendale City Church every first & third Wednesday at 12:10-12:40 pm. www.glendalecitychurch.org
ARTIST BIOS:
WITH A DONATION:
Or by mailing it to 610 E California Ave, Glendale, CA 91206 to the Friends of Music.
Concert schedule: www.glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com
Glendale City Church also presents the Second Saturday Concert Series,
and sponsors the Caesura Youth Orchestra http://www.mycyo.org
Much appreciation to the Hennings-Fischer Foundation for their mission to support art & education and their generous grant to GNC.
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ARTIST BIOS:
Originally
from Bowling Green, Ohio, Ms. Marsh received a Bachelor of Music Degree from
the Eastman School of Music and a Master of Music Degree from the University of
Southern California. Her principal teachers include Bonita Boyd, Samuel Baron,
Roger Stevens, and Louise DiTullio. She was a member of the LA Philharmonic
Orchestral Training Program and was selected to perform in The Round Top
Music Festival and the Orchestral Institute in Graz, Austria. In addition
Ms. Marsh has performed in masterclasses with James Galway, Jean Pierre Rampal,
Sarah Jackson and Catherine Karoly.
This
past November Katherine premiered James Domine’s Flute Concerto with the San
Fernando Valley Symphony. Her piccolo and flute playing can be heard in many
Star Wars Video games performing with the Skywalker Orchestra. In addition to
orchestral work, Kathy is a member of the California Music Teacher's
Association and is a coach for Junior Chamber Music. She
recently served as a board member for the Arts High
Foundation.
Patrick Marsh received his
bachelors degree in viola performance from the University of Michigan and is
currently attending The Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins as a viola
major.
As a violist, Patrick was one
of the founding members of "Clemens Quartet," a string quartet performing and competing
throughout the United States.
As a violinist, Patrick is a
former concertmaster of The Los Angeles County High School for the Arts.
His performance opportunities have taken him across the United States,
Europe, and St. Petersburg Russia.
Though classical music is the foundation of his technique, you
will find him branching out into the Jazz and Rock generes. Patrick plays a
blue Fourness Fuse 5string electric violin and runs it through a Line6 Helix
for effects, and 2 Gallien Krueger bass amps in stereo.
Patrick can also be heard as a featured soloist in such feature
films as "Kids vs. Monsters" and "Pali Road" as well as
such video games as "Rellics of Gods" and Disney's
"Cartooniverse."
Devienne
was a French flute player, bassoonist, and composer from the classical era. He
was professor of flute at the Paris Conservatoire. His works are best known by
flute players, although he also wrote operas, chamber music, and concertos for
other instruments. The Duos for Flute and Viola were published in 1780. They
are examples of classical compositional style. Unusual for the time, they use
both voices as equal partners, as opposed to a soloist and accompaniment. Each
duo is in two movements, with alternating slow and fast sections.
English
composer Gordon Jacob was a professor at the Royal College of Music in London
from 1924 to 1966. The Pied Piper of Hamelin is a character from a legend who
was hired as a rat- catcher to lure rats out of the town of Hamelin with his
magic pipe. When the residents refused to pay, however, he lured their children
instead. This piece is tied to a poem by Robert Browning, written in 1842,
which mentions the River Weser. The first movement, “The Spell,” is haunting
and beautiful, and is meant to capture the music the Piper played in order to
put the children under his spell. After the townspeople refuse to pay,
Browning’s poem mentions the Piper playing three notes that lure the children
to him, and this is reflected in the first three notes of the second movement,
now played on piccolo. In the poem, the Piper leads the children towards the
River Weser before turning and leading them into the distance, from where they
never return. This second movement, then, illustrates this tragic journey.
Franz
Anton Hoffmeister (1754 – 1812) was German born and moved to Vienna at age 14.
By the 1780’s he was one of the most popular composers in Vienna. One of his
greatest accomplishments was founding a publishing company, the ‘Bureau de
Musique’, which published much of Mozart’s and Haydn’s music as well as the first edition of J.S Bach’s Keyboard Works in 14 volumes
(1802). This company was later purchased by C.F. Peters, which is still in
existence today. Hoffmeister’s Duo in F Major for Flute and Viola is a lovely
and substantial part of our concert program! The first movement is an energetic
Allegro, the second a sweet and lovely Romance, and the
third, Allegretto, is a playful Theme and Variation format.
Indoor Games was composed after three months of quarantine
During the Covid 19 pandemic. It was composed
for Kathy (flutist) and
Patrick Marsh (violist)
on the occasion of a virtual recital through the
Glendale Noon Concerts.
The work is in four short movements each describing
A different game: Table
Tennis, Chess, Solitaire, and Chinese Checkers.
The first movement,
Table Tennis is in a 5/4 meter (2 Quarters, 2
Eighths and 2 more
quarters and represents the rhythm of the ping pong ball.
2. In Chess, the timer
aspect of chess is a feature I have incorporated into
This movement, along
with partial canons and fugues, with the flute and
The viola taking turns
initiating the moves. 3. Solitaire is a mood piece; a
Little gloomy and angry
at having to play alone, also, it is a little sparse in
texture. 4. I think of
Chinese Checkers as a fast game, in that one
player is jumping over
several marbles at a time. I used an Eastern sounding
scale and the rhythm
was influenced by the Mongol Horsemen racing on
the plains of Eastern
Asia.- Kirstin Fife
