Thursday, March 18, 2021

Streaming on FACEBOOK & YouTube/Glendale Noon Concerts 4/7/21

Streaming on FACEBOOK & YouTube
Glendale Noon Concerts  4/7/21

Jacqueline Suzuki – 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 APRIL 7, 2021 program can be viewed at this link
beginning at 12:10 pm PDT. (VIDEO will be available ongoing)

 

LINK TO VIEW THE CONCERT:

On Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/jacquelinesuzuki/videos/10225903310795420

On YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smiu3jo3Sxs


The concert 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 PDT

On Wednesday, APRIL 7, 2021 at 12:10 pm PDT:

Jacqueline Suzuki, Violin

Brendan White, Piano


PROGRAM:

JOHANNES BRAHMS

Sonatensatz: Scherzo in C minor, WoO2

 

GEORGE N. GIANOPOULOS

City Vignettes for Violin and Piano, Op. 29d

Dawn

Dusk

Rain at Night

 

FELIX MENDELSSOHN 

Violin Sonata in F minor, Op.4 

Adagio – Allegro moderato

Poco Adagio

Allegro agitato

(Scroll down for artist bios and program notes)



Facebook APR 7 event page:

https://www.facebook.com/events/2828310544058161/


Please keep checking the site below for updates.

http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com

Streaming on Wednesday APRIL 21, 2021 at 12:10-12:40 pm PDT:

ALEXANDER KNECHT plays BACH

Solo Viola 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: (includes bio/program notes for the Gianopoulos piece)

 

George N. Gianopoulos is a Los Angeles composer.

His bio can be found on his website: https://www.georgengianopoulos.com/biography

 

Program Note: The City Vignettes began as a work for the mezzo-soprano and guitar group, the Malkin-Trybek Duo. The arrangement for piano was born out of necessity and practicality, and the cycle was subsequently arranged on request for Flute, Clarinet, Violin and Alto Saxophone. American lyric poet, Sara Teasdale, first published her set of three miniature poems City Vignettes in 1911 in the collection Helen of Troy and Other Poems. Though Teasdale regularly had bouts of depression throughout her life, which ended in suicide, she was the first person, man or woman, to receive the first ever Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1918. The first poem, Dawn, opens with the atmospheric line “The greenish sky glows up in misty reds,” set in the key of a minor, grows to despair and ends in loneliness. A very free and expressive solo begins the second number, Dusk, and continues into a dismal description of the austere city landscape. There is hope, seemingly, as Teasdale writes “A thousand yellow lights begin to gleam and over all the pale untroubled skies,” set to a rhythmic and bouncy accompaniment based on the introductory material. A distinctly metered pedal point is employed at the onset of the third stanza, Rain at Night, depicting the steady precipitation. A plaintive tune is sung or played over the raindrops and reaches a climax, through a shift in the pedal tone and its rhythmic intensity, at the line “and the rain is heard now loud and blurred,” before subduing itself back to a light drizzle and concluding the cycle. 

SARA TEASDALE (American, 1884-1933) From Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911):

City  Vignettes

  I
        Dawn

The greenish sky glows up in misty reds,
 The purple shadows turn to brick and stone,
The dreams wear thin, men turn upon their beds,
 And hear the milk-cart jangle by alone.

  II
        Dusk

The city's street, a roaring blackened stream
 Walled in by granite, thro' whose thousand eyes
A thousand yellow lights begin to gleam,
 And over all the pale untroubled skies.

  III
        Rain at Night

The street-lamps shine in a yellow line
 Down the splashy, gleaming street,
And the rain is heard now loud now blurred
 By the tread of homing feet.

 


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:

 “Three composers presented the great violinist Joseph Joachim in 1853 with a belated 21st-birthday gift: a violin sonata of which Albert Dietrich had written the opening Allegro, Johannes Brahms the Scherzo, and Robert Schumann the Finale. Brahms was just 20 years old and this Scherzo was amongst the first fruits of his friendship both with Joachim and Schumann. It is his earliest instrumental piece, written just before the first piano sonata. Although the whole sonata has long been forgotten, this movement – first published in 1906 – has become a favorite as a separate piece, particularly in Germany.” - Stainer & Bell

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin_Sonata_in_F_minor_(Mendelssohn)

 

 


Thursday, March 4, 2021

Streaming on FACEBOOK & YouTube/Glendale Noon Concerts 3/17/21

Streaming on FACEBOOK & YouTube

Glendale Noon Concerts  3/17/21

Asuncion Ojeda, Flute
Paul Sherman, Oboe
Traci Esslinger, Piano

Works by Chinary Ung, Alan Hovhaness, & Madeleine Dring

During the Covid-19 "Safer at Home" period,
Glendale Noon Concerts will bring our programs
to you via streaming on Facebook and YouTube:
The MARCH 17, 2021 program can be viewed at this link
beginning at 12:10 pm PDT. (VIDEO will be available ongoing)

 

LINK TO VIEW THE CONCERT:

On Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/paul.sherman.353/videos/10158818000316727

 

On YouTube:

https://youtu.be/uQpvkY7ZZFI

 

 

 

The concert 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 PDT

On Wednesday, MARCH 17, 2021 at 12:10 pm PDT:

 

Asuncion Ojeda, Flute
Paul Sherman, Oboe
Traci Esslinger, Piano

 

 PROGRAM:

Chinary Ung – Neak Pean for flute and english horn

 

Alan Hovhaness - Visionary Landscapes, Op.214
I. Allegro rubato
II. Allegretto
III.  “Evening Bell” Allegro misterioso, molto rubato
IV.  Allegro brillante 

 

Madeleine Dring – Trio, for flute, oboe and piano
I. Allegro con brio
II. Andante Simplice
III. Allegro giocoso

(Scroll down for program notes & artist bios)


Facebo
ok MAR 17 event page:


Please keep checking the site below for updates.

Streaming on Wednesday APRIL 7, 2021 at 12:10-12:40 pm PDT:
DUO RECITAL
Jacqueline Suzuki - violin
Brendan White - piano
GEORGE N. GIANOPOULOS  City Vignettes for violin and piano
FELIX MENDELSSOHN  Violin Sonata in F minor, Op.4 
JOHANNES BRAHMS Sonatensatz: Scherzo in C minor

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
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.
RELAX DURING YOUR LUNCH HOUR WITH LIVE MUSIC
 

PROGRAM NOTES: 

Written by renown composer, Chinary Ung (1942), Neak Pean was written for Asuncion and Paul for the Nirmita festival held in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The premier performance was given at the final concert of the festival. 

Neak Pean is a kind of ancient hospital at Angkor Wat, where the four main pools represent the elements of Water (North), Earth (East), Fire (South) and Wind (West). As Ung explains, “The term Neak Pean refers to the intertwining Nagas, or serpents, that surround the central island. . . . Bathing in the pools restored the individual’s balance, thereby healing disease.” The flute and the English horn represent the two Naga’s or dragons as they intertwine using Ung’s process of spiral composition. The idea of a spiral — something that circles back but continues going — proved especially inspirational, prompting a series of pieces: “Spiral II,” “Grand Spiral,” “Antiphonal Spirals” and more.

 

Visionary Landscapes, Op. 214 by Alan Hovhaness Alan Hovhaness was born in March of 1911 in Somerville, Massachusetts and composed his first piece, a cantata inspired by a song by Franz Schubert, at the callow age of 4. Throughout his lifetime, Hovhaness pursued the study of various world musics including that of his paternal ancestral Armenia; Indian classical music; Korean percussion and strings; as well as gagaku, music of the Japanese Imperial court. Visionary Landscapes was composed in 1967 subsequent to returning from his Japanese music studies in Hawaii and Japan. The miniatures in this suite for solo piano were inspired by mountain landscapes and lake vistas in Armenia and Switzerland.

 

Multi-faceted artist Madeleine Dring (1923-1977) was an English actress, mime, cartoonist, violinist, pianist, singer, and composer. She earned a violin scholarship to the junior department of the Royal College of Music (RCM), and she continued her studies at RCM as a senior composition student of Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gordon Jacob. In addition to composing concert pieces, Dring sustained her love of the theater by acting, singing, playing piano, and composing incidental music.

Dring composed several of her chamber works, including the Trio for flute, oboe, and piano (1968) for her husband Roger Lord, a professional oboist who played with the London Symphony Orchestra. Flutist Peter Lloyd, Lord, and André Previn premiered the Trio in the United States. Dring admired Francis Poulenc, and her works often exhibit similarities in melodic structure and rhythmic wit.


ARTIST BIOS:

Dr. Paul J. Sherman enjoys a varied career as a conductor, oboist, and musicologist. He performs on both modern and baroque period instruments and enjoys a career with many different musical branches. These include jazz, classical and early music.  His doctorate from USC is in oboe performance, conducting, early music and music history. While studying at USC he was honored as the universities top wind graduate. Dr. Sherman is an assistant professor of music history at Glendale College and has been on the faculty of USC as Instructor of Early Music, at Chapman University as Director of the Wind Symphony and Coordinator of winds and brass, and at College of the Canyons as Director of the Symphony of the Canyons. 

As a performer, he has appeared with the LA. Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, LA Master Chorale, Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, Southwest Chamber Music, Santa Fe Pro Musica and Music Angelica among many others.

 

Flutist Asuncion Ojeda has been active with various southern California ensembles, including Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra, the Filipino American Symphony Orchestra (FASO), and Nimbus Ensemble.  She is also a student/performer with the World Kulintang Institute ensemble, an organization devoted to the ancient gong and drum traditions from the southern Philippines.  As an elementary music teacher with the LAUSD Arts Education Branch, Asuncion gets to share her love for music with students from Kindergarten through 8th grade.

 

Pianist Traci Esslinger is a Los Angeles native committed to the exploration of contemporary as well as traditional repertoire. She has performed with the California EAR Unit, Inauthentica, Nimbus Ensemble, and CalArts New Century Players and in festivals such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic Minimalist Jukebox, (Rajikaru!) Experimentations in Japanese Art at The Getty, at REDCAT as part of the Synaesthesia Festival, the Banff Chamber Music Festival, UCSB’s Made in California, and Kaffee und Kultur: L.A.’s Emigre Life of the 1940’s and 1050’s at the Skirball among others. She has worked with leading contemporary composers such as: James Newton, James Tenney, Ulrich Krieger, Anne LeBaron, David Rosenboom, Roger Reynolds, Sean Heim, and John M. Kennedy and is featured on David Rosenboom's "Naked Curvature: Four Memories of the Daimon" on the Tzadik label. Traci is a founding member of the Arroyo Ensemble and holds a Master’s of Fine Arts degree in piano performance from California Institute of the Arts as well as a Master’s of Music in composition and a Bachelor's degree in piano performance from California State University, Los Angeles. When not performing or teaching in her Altadena-based studio, Traci can usually be found in the mountains, hiking and backpacking with her partner, Sean Heim, and her Blue Heelers, Matilda and Angus.