On FACEBOOK streaming: Glendale Noon Concerts 8/19/20

Streaming on FACEBOOK: Glendale Noon Concerts 8/19/20  

Pianist BRENDAN WHITE


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 AUGUST 19, 2020 program can be viewed at this link
beginning at 12:10 pm PDT:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=582798092378880
 

The concert is also available for viewing on Youtube: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1zj_ZulD_o
 

Glendale City Church Youtube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt6zEXA-8F7CPOixLDWxGBA


Facebook stream: GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS
Every FIRST & THIRD WEDNESDAY at 12:10 pm PDT
On Wednesday AUGUST 19, 2020 at 12:10 pm PDT:

BRENDAN WHITE - piano 


(Scroll down for artist bio & program notes) 

Program:

Eleanor Alberga

(b. 1949, Jamaican)

It's Time

 

Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji 

(1942-1988, English)

Nocturne: Djâmî 

 

 

Facebook AUGUST 19 event page:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1481626115377872/

Please keep checking the site below for updates.
A list of upcoming concerts will be posted soon.

 http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com

Streaming on Wednesday SEPTEMBER 2, 2020 at 12:10-12:40 pm PDT:  

ALEXANDER KNECHT

SOLO VIOLIN RECITAL

Bach: Partita no. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002

Eugene Ysaÿe: Sonata op. 27 no. 5, "L'Aurore"

 

 

PLEASE HELP THESE CONCERTS TO CONTINUE 
WITH A DONATION:

https://adventistgiving.org/#/org/ANPPGL/envelope/start

Or by mailing it to 610 E California Ave, Glendale, CA 91206 to the Friends of Music.

The Glendale Noon Concerts series is presented by Glendale City Church every first & third Wednesday at 12:10-12:40 pm. www.glendalecitychurch.org

Concert schedule: www.glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com

Glendale City Church also presents the Second Saturday Concert Series,

http://glendalecitychurch.org/index.php/ministries/second-saturday-concert-series.html  

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.
RELAX DURING YOUR LUNCH HOUR WITH LIVE MUSIC

 

 

ARTIST BIO:

Pianist Brendan White has appeared as soloist with the Jackson Symphony Orchestra, Musica Nova (Eastman School of Music), Delta Symphony Orchestra, Crown City Symphony, and the Vicente Chamber Orchestra. White’s collaborations in Southern California have included the Mühlfeld Trio, which won the prestigious Beverly Hills Auditions, the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, the Speakeasy Society, and Eighteen Squared. He is also a founding member of the Sunset ChamberFest in Los Angeles; www.sunsetchamberfest.com 

Local recital appearances include: Glendale Noon Concerts, Pasadena Presbyterian Music at Noon, Music@Mimoda, Mason Concerts, Emerging Artist Series Recital at Boston Court, Soundwaves series in Santa Monica.

White was born and raised in Tennessee before attending Eastman to study with Thomas Schumacher, and then, the University of Southern California, with Kevin Fitz-Gerald, where he was awarded Outstanding Master’s Graduate of the Thornton School of Music. 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.

 

PROGRAM NOTES & COMPOSER BIOS:

Eleanor Alberga

(b. 1949, Jamaican)

It's Time

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Alberga

 

https://africlassical.blogspot.com/2019/03/theartsdeskcom-eleanor-albergas-its.html

 

 

Eleanor Alberga has often worked with dance troupes. That grounding in the ever-shifting drama of rhythm and movement never feels far away in It’s Time – inspired by a poem by Pushkin. Repeated bass figures conjure an immersive, enveloping mood of anticipation, even threat. If the hypnotic and drone-like rumbles and snarls low down hint at some variety of minimalism, ethereal, bell-like harmonies above sometimes conjure the soundscapes of Debussy or even Messiaen. -Boyd Tonkin

Aleksandr Pushkin

"It's Time, My Friend..."

It's time, my friend, it's time! The peace is craved by hearts...  

Days flow after days -- each hour departs

A bit of life -- and both, you and I,

Plan a long life, but could abruptly die.

The world hasn't happiness, but there is freedom, peace.

And long have I daydreamed the life of bliss --

And long have planned, a tired slave, the flight

To the removed abode of labor and delight. 

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

Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji 

(1942-1988, English)

Nocturne: Djâmî

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaikhosru_Shapurji_Sorabji

 http://www.sorabji-archive.co.uk/compositions/piece.php?pieceid=47

Sorabji wrote Djâmi in 1928; it is the first of his works explicitly designated ‘nocturne’, a genre to which he returned many times later in his career. It is also one of Sorabji’s first works to explicitly evoke Persian culture, something that became increasingly important to Sorabji not only as a source of inspiration for his music (evident in compositions such as Gulistān and the Jāmī Symphony) but as a means of discovering and engaging with his own cultural heritage as a Parsi. Djâmi bears the following quotation from the poem Yusuf and Zuleykhā by the poet Nuru’d-Dīn ‘Abdur-Rahmān Jāmī: “Be thou the thrall of love; make this thine object; For this one thing seemeth to wise men worthy. Be thou love’s thrall, that thou mayst win thy freedom, Bear on thy breast its brand, that thou mayst blithe be. Love’s wine will warm thee and will steal thy senses; All else is soulless stupor and self-seeking” (trans. E.G. Browne).
(notes: Jonathan Powell)