Violinist JACQUELINE SUZUKI & Pianist BRENDAN WHITE:
Duos by MOZART & LISZT
During the Covid-19 "Safer at Home" period,
Glendale Noon Concerts will bring our programs
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The OCTOBER 7, 2020 program can be viewed at this link
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The September 16 concert on Youtube: ADRIANA ZOPPO - viola d'amore
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The September 2 concert on Youtube: ALEXANDER KNECHT -violin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8dK2uTZCtY
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Facebook stream: GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS
Every FIRST & THIRD WEDNESDAY at 12:10 pm PDT
On Wednesday OCTOBER 7, 2020 at 12:10 pm PDT:
JACQUELINE SUZUKI - violin
BRENDAN WHITE - piano
(Scroll down for artist bio & program notes)
Program:
W.A. MOZART (1756-1791)
Violin Sonata No.25 in F Major, K.377 (1781)
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Allegro Tema con variazioni Tempo di menuetto |
FRANZ LISZT (1811-1886)
Grand duo concertant sur la romance de “Le marin” for Violin and Piano, S. 128 (1835)
Lento assai – Animato, quasi allegro Variation III: Allegretto pastorale
Andantino Variation IV: Tarantella – Presto
Variation I: Un poco pi. animato Finale: Animato marziale
Variation II
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ARTIST BIOS:
Jacqueline Suzuki, violin, is a longtime member of the Long Beach and Santa Barbara Symphonies. A native of San Francisco, she began her earliest chamber music studies on scholarship at the San Francisco Conservatory. She has performance degrees from the Mannes College of Music (BM), where she studied with William Kroll, and the California Institute of the Arts (MFA).
As a Los Angeles freelancer,
she has performed with many ensembles and in many genres, from rock, jazz,
Latin and Arabic, to playing in the pit for the Bolshoi Ballet and onstage with
the Three Tenors. She has recorded with diverse artists: Snoop Dogg, Neil
Sedaka, Leonard Cohen, Whitney Houston, Bocelli, Lalo Schifrin, McCoy Tyner,
Placido Domingo and many others, and appears on recordings by the Long Beach, Santa
Barbara and Pacific Symphonies. She has spent summers at the Peter Britt,
Oregon Coast, Carmel Bach and Cabrillo Festivals and has performed in a string
quartet “in residence” on a raft trip down the Green River in Utah. Tours have
taken her many times to Japan, Taiwan, Mexico, Canada, Europe, the Middle East
and throughout the US.
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:
https://www.earsense.org/chamber-music/Wolfgang-Amadeus-Mozart-Violin-Sonata-in-F-major-K-377/
https://www.laphil.com/musicdb/pieces/3490/sonata-in-f-k-377
‘We do not normally associate the name Franz Liszt with chamber music–the intimate and restrained nature of chamber music seems far removed from the extroverted virtuosity of much of of Liszt’s music. But he did write a small number of works for chamber ensembles. During the mid-1830s, when Liszt–then in his twenties–was based in Paris and making his career as a virtuoso pianist, he met the French violinist and composer Charles Philippe Lafont (1781-1839). Out of this friendship came a piece we know today as Liszt’s Grand Duo Concertante, though evidence suggests that it was composed as a collaboration between the two men. They probably performed the Grand Duo in Paris, but the music was still in manuscript when Lafont was killed in 1839 when his carriage overturned. Liszt retained his affection for this music, however, and he returned to it in 1849 and revised it. The Grand Duo was finally published in 1852, nearly two decades after it had been first composed.
The title Grand Duo Concertante suggests a virtuoso work, and this is indeed virtuoso music: it is beautifully written for both instruments, both instruments have cadenza-like passages along the way, and the idiomatic writing for violin suggests that Lafont had a great deal to do with creating that part. While the Grand Duo may be a virtuoso piece, it takes the form of a set of variations, and those variations are based on the song Le marin (“The Sailor”) by Lafont himself. A dramatic and substantial introduction leads to Lafont’s gentle melody, stated first by the violin and then taken up by the piano. Four variations follow, and these give both performers plenty of opportunity to shine. The Grand Duo is rounded off by a lengthy finale, and Lafont’s original melody makes a brilliant reappearance in the course of the rush to the close.” LA JOLLA CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY
