Streaming on FACEBOOK & YouTube: Glendale Noon Concerts 1/5/22

Streaming on FACEBOOK & YouTube

Glendale Noon Concerts  1/5/22

A Program to Celebrate the Winter Season:

Alexander Knecht- violin

Brendan White -piano

 

During the Covid-19 "Safer at Home" period, 

Glendale Noon Concerts will bring our programs

to you via streaming on Facebook and YouTube:

 
The JANUARY 5, 2022 program can be viewed at this link beginning 

at 12:10 pm PT. (VIDEO will be available ongoing)

LINK TO VIEW THE CONCERT:  

On Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/xander.knecht/videos/2174389692713447
On YouTube:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7rrzqTxyfU

The program will be archived on the

Glendale City Church Youtube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt6zEXA-8F7CPOixLDWxGBA
 

Watch previous Glendale Noon Concerts streams: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oAfaPgGGMw&list=PLms1LJpnTpJzK7Yf6ryh2zyFMlkl7qC2z

Read about the previous programs:   

http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com

Facebook stream: GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS
Every FIRST & THIRD WEDNESDAY at 12:10 pm PT
On Wednesday JANUARY 5, 2022 at 12:10 pm PT:

 

A Program to Celebrate the Winter Season:

Alexander Knecht- violin

Brendan White -piano

 

The Christmas Shoes / Leonard Ahlstrom and Eddie Carswell

Pastorale from 'Messiah' / G.F. Händel

Gesu Bambino / Pietro Yon

Child of the Poor / Scott Soper and William Dix

Hail Mary, Gentle Woman - Silent Night / Carey Landry

(Scroll down for artist bios)

 

Facebook JANUARY 5  event page:  

https://www.facebook.com/events/794081798655250/

Please keep checking the site below for updates:

http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com

Streaming on Wednesday JANUARY 19, 2022 at 12:10-12:40 pm PT:

DUO RECITAL

Ruth Kasckow -flute

Bryan Pezzone – piano

ASTOR PIAZZOLLA Histoire du Tango

AARON COPLAND Duo

 

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 BIOS:

Alexander Cai Knecht completed a DMA under full scholarship at USC in 2018, where he studied with Brian Chen. He holds a master's degree from Juilliard, where he studied with Masao Kawasaki, and bachelors' degrees  from La Sierra University, where he studied with Jason Uyeyama.

In 2018, he became a member of the viola section of the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra. Since 2019, he has served as a Teaching Artist for the Caesura Youth Orchestra at Columbus Elementary School in Glendale. In 2019, he founded a free violin class outreach program at the Los Angeles Chinese Seventh-Day Adventist Church. He is a regular participant as a violinist in the liturgical music at St. Joseph the Worker parish in Loma Linda. He has been a mentor teaching strings in the CKC-Music community engagement program in San Bernardino since its founding in 2008, continuing to the present day through Zoom.

This year he was featured in a live performance on AM 870 in Glendale, on the Impassioned Angels program.. Last summer he performed in an online celebration of the violin caprices of Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Grammaté, as part of a celebration of Canada Day hosted by Scott St. John of the Colburn School. He remains an active teacher and performer online.

In past summers he has been a fellow at the Aspen Music Festival, the Music Academy of the West, and the Gonggeng Music Festival in Zhejiang Province, China. He comes from a musical family of Chinese, Korean and Caucasian ancestry including three siblings, all of whom play and teach string instruments.

 

 

Pianist Brendan White has appeared as soloist with the Jackson Symphony Orchestra, Musica Nova (Eastman School of Music), Delta Symphony Orchestra, Crown City Symphony, Vicente Chamber Orchestra, and the Symphony of the Verdugos. 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.

Streaming on FACEBOOK & YouTube: Glendale Noon Concerts 12/15/21

Streaming on FACEBOOK & YouTube

Glendale Noon Concerts  12/15/21

YUE DENG Solo Violin Recital 

Works by  J.S. Bach & Eugène Ysaÿe

 

During the Covid-19 "Safer at Home" period, 

Glendale Noon Concerts will bring our programs

to you via streaming on Facebook and YouTube:

 
The DECEMBER 15, 2021 program can be viewed at this link beginning 

at 12:10 pm PT. (VIDEO will be available ongoing)

LINK TO VIEW THE CONCERT:  

On Facebook: 

https://www.facebook.com/jacquelinesuzuki/videos/230394822502556

On YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hACPG1U3u5w

The program will be archived on the

Glendale City Church Youtube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt6zEXA-8F7CPOixLDWxGBA
 

Watch previous Glendale Noon Concerts streams: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oAfaPgGGMw&list=PLms1LJpnTpJzK7Yf6ryh2zyFMlkl7qC2z

Read about the previous programs:   

http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com

Facebook stream: GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS
Every FIRST & THIRD WEDNESDAY at 12:10 pm PT
On Wednesday DECEMBER 15, 2021 at 12:10 pm PT:

 YUE DENG Solo Violin Recital 

J.S. Bach

Violin Sonata .No.1 in G minor, BWV 1001

        I.         Adagio

      II.        Fuga (Allegro)

     III.        Siciliana

     IV.        Presto

Eugène Ysaÿe

Sonata No. 6 in E major, Op. 27

Allegro giusto non troppo vivo

 (Scroll down for artist bio)

 

Facebook DECEMBER 15  event page:  

https://www.facebook.com/events/3122173348064288

Please keep checking the site below for updates:

http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com

Streaming on Wednesday JANUARY 5, 2022 at 12:10-12:40 pm PT:

ALEXANDER KNECHT Violin Recital 

 

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 BIOS:

Independent and passionate describe Yue Deng whose career as a concert violinist began when she was awarded First Prize in the National Violin Competition in China at the age of eight.

She studied at Oberlin Conservatory and Julliard. She has been a participant at the Music Academy of the West and the Henry Mancini Institute. As a recording artist, Yue has recorded with Barbra Streisand, Barry Manilow, Diana Krall, and Jean-Yves Thibaudet, among others. Yue has performed in the Carnegie, Avery Fisher, Alice Tully, and Disney Concert Halls, and at Birdland. She has mentored individual students at many prestigious institutions and coached underprivileged young violinists in Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties. From 2013-2019 she served as a Strings Instructor and Artist in Residence at University of Alberta while continuing to perform and record. Jazz great Roger Kellaway arranged and wrote an album for her titled Both Sides Now. He comments: “Her musicianship is superb. Because of Yue’s talent, I fell in love with the violin.”

Streaming on FACEBOOK & YouTube: Glendale Noon Concerts 12/1/2

 

Streaming on FACEBOOK & YouTube

Glendale Noon Concerts  12/1/21

Works by Sergei Prokofiev & Domingo Lobato

Nancy Roth, violin

Lorenzo Sánchez, piano

 

                

During the Covid-19 "Safer at Home" period, 

Glendale Noon Concerts will bring our programs

to you via streaming on Facebook and YouTube:

 
The DECEMBER 1, 2021 program can be viewed at this link beginning 

at 12:10 pm PT. (VIDEO will be available ongoing)

LINK TO VIEW THE CONCERT:  

On Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/gr8sanchez/videos/344673550754452

On YouTube:

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

The program will be archived on the

Glendale City Church Youtube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt6zEXA-8F7CPOixLDWxGBA
 

Watch previous Glendale Noon Concerts streams: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oAfaPgGGMw&list=PLms1LJpnTpJzK7Yf6ryh2zyFMlkl7qC2z

Read about the previous programs:   

http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com

Facebook stream: GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS
Every FIRST & THIRD WEDNESDAY at 12:10 pm PT
On Wednesday DECEMBER 1, 2021 at 12:10 pm PT:

 

 

Nancy Roth, violin

Lorenzo Sánchez, piano

 

 

 

 

Program

 

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)

Five Melodies Op. 35a                                                                                   

                        I. Andante

                        II. Lento, ma non troppo

                        III. Animato, ma non allegro

                        IV. Allegretto leggero e scherzando

                        V.  Andante non troppo

 

Domingo Lobato (1920-2012)

Sonata Noël para violín y piano                                                                    

                        I. Adviento

                        II. Espiritual

                        III. Arrullo virginal (“Virgin’s Lullaby”)

                        IV. Final festivo

 (Scroll down for artist bios)

 

Facebook DECEMBER 1  event page:  

https://www.facebook.com/events/327473792080417

Please keep checking the site below for updates:

http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com

Streaming on Wednesday DECEMBER 15, 2021 at 12:10-12:40 pm PT:

YUE DENG Solo Violin Recital 

J.S. Bach

Violin Sonata .No.1 in G minor, BWV 1001

 

Eugène Ysaÿe

Sonata No. 6 in E major, Op. 27

 

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 BIOS:

Nancy Roth, violinist (and violist), is currently concertmaster of the Culver City Symphony and Marina del Rey Summer Symphony. She is also concertmaster of the Chamber Orchestra of the South Bay and a member of the Pasadena Symphony. She is a former member of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, was co-principal violist of the Graz Philharmonic in Austria, and served many years as concertmaster of the San Fernando Valley Symphony Orchestra and the Carson-Dominguez Hills Symphony. Nancy has been a featured soloist with numerous Southern California orchestras including the Culver City Symphony, Carson Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of the South Bay, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Southland Symphony Orchestra, Valley Symphony and Rio Hondo Symphony. She has given recitals and radio broadcasts in the United States, Austria and Mexico, and she is currently a member of the new music group “TEMPO” based at California State University Northridge. Nancy is a member of the String Family Players (quintet), which performs educational programs for the Music Center On Tour, and she has been on the faculty of the Max Aronoff Viola Institute Summer Music Festival. She has played baroque violin and viols with James Tyler in the London Early Music Group and Los Angeles Musica Viva. Nancy holds a Bachelor of Music from CSUN, a Master of Music from the Juilliard School and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Southern California.

 

 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 the Paderewski Festival in Paso Robles, California. He has performed for African-American composer George Walker and Japanese composer Mitsuru Asaka in Hawaii. He has played for several choirs touring Italy, The Vatican, and several Filipino community celebration masses at Our Lady Queen of Angels in Los Angeles. Looking toward his own heritage, Lorenzo has edited and helped publish piano works by Mexican composer Domingo Lobato. He has recorded two CDs of Lobato’s solo piano works , and recently released a CD with clarinetist Virginia Figueiredo. All of his recordings are available on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, and others. Unfortunately, the global pandemic caused the cancellation of concert appearances in Brazil and Mexico this year. Lorenzo holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree from the University of Southern California.

 

PROGRAM NOTES:

The two works on this program were originally composed by men close in age. Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev was 29 when he wrote his Five Melodies for singer Nina Koshetz in 1920. According to LA Phil write John Henken, Prokofiev did most of his work on these melodies right here in California. “I am as ecstatic about California as it is about me,” Prokofiev wrote from Los Angeles. ^[1] As a pianist, I am struck by the exquisite harmonies, orchestral textures, technical challenges, and sheer beauty. The violinist’s part is also rich with typical string-player arsenal: pizzicatos, double stops, singing melodies, and harmonics. The result is gorgeous music from a legendary Russian composer who was in our part of the world.

 

Mexican composer Domingo Lobato was 27 when he composed his Sonata Noël. Lobato’s varied output includes works for solo piano, voice, sacred and secular choral works, organ music, and orchestral pieces. His music encompasses many styles, including atonal music, works that reflect dance music from his home state of Michoacán, and those of an international flavor. However, his earlier works are abundant with impressionist elements. The pulchritudinous Sonata Noël is comprised of four movements; each representing a different facet of the Christmas theme. - Lorenzo Sánchez

 

^[1] John Henken, LA Phil program notes, October of 2017

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