Streaming on FACEBOOK & YouTube
Glendale Noon Concerts 2/2/22
Ellen Burr – flute
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 FEBRUARY 2, 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/gr8sanchez/videos/358009345833389
On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkLwNs6CJOI
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 FEBRUARY
2, 2022 at 12:10 pm PT:
Flute Recital:
Ellen Burr -flute
Lorenzo Sánchez -piano
Program:
Bohuslav Martinů
First Sonata for Flute and Piano
I. Allegro moderato
II. Adagio
III. Allegro poco moderato
Ned Rorem
Mountain Song
Mario Lavista
Danza de las bailarinas de Degas
Mike Mower
Opus di Jazz
(Scroll down for artist bios)
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FEBRUARY 2 event page:
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Streaming on Wednesday FEBRUARY 16, 2022 at 12:10-12:40 pm PT:
Music from the Republic of Georgia:
Ken Aiso–violin
Valeria Morgovskaya- piano
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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.
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ARTIST BIOS:
Ellen Burr’s multifaceted musical career has won her praise in performance, improvisation and composition. She had her solo debut with the Topeka Civic Symphony at age sixteen, and this past October played Michael Kibbe’s Verdugo with the Carson City Symphony.
Ellen has been improvising almost as long as she's been playing, and began teaching only two years after she began taking private lessons. Ellen appears on more than twenty-five CD's and has received worldwide performances of over fifty of her compositions. Her improvisational card game Ink Bops is included in the graphic score anthology Notations 21, ed. by Theresa Sauer, pub. 2009.
She has been a featured performer/clinician for high schools, universities, and festivals across the U.S., Canada, UK, and EU. Ms. Burr held a year-long position as visiting assistant professor of theory and music composition at Wichita State University, and was guest flute instructor for a semester at California Institute of the Arts.
Ms. Burr holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Flute Performance from Wichita State University, a Master of Fine Arts degree in Music Composition from California Institute of the Arts, and the Certificat de Stage at the Academie Internationale D’Ete in France. Her flute teachers have been Jean-Pierre Rampal, Jim Walker, and Dr. Frances Shelly.
Ms. Burr was the subject of a feature article, “Teaching Self-Awareness,” (Flute Talk, vol.17, no.2), and has since contributed articles on the business of teaching. Most recently her article about teaching, “Obstacle or Opportunity,” was published in the MTAC magazine. Ellen is a Yamaha Artist.
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:
Martinů, Bohuslav (1890-1959)
Although he spent most of his creative life away from his native Czechoslovakia, Martinů is widely regarded, after Janáček, as the most substantial Czech composer of the 20th century. He studied with Roussel in Paris in the twenties and taught composition in Tanglewood in the forties.
Compulsive aspects of his personality surfaced in his chain-smoking, voracious reading, and a frequently workaholic approach to composition. He was more comfortable with the metropolitan life of Paris and Prague than academia.
Syncopated, sprung rhythms and the superimposition of closely spaced harmonies against a fundamentally tonal background as well as elements of impressionism and jazz make up Martinů’s musical language.
The Sonata for Flute and Piano (1945) was written for the French flutist George Laurent. The first movement recalls the church bells often heard throughout the countryside of Europe. The second movement deals with homesickness, which he suffered from in America. The third movement rejoices with the bird song of the whippoorwill as a motif. Martinů heard this bird as it sang all night long during the entire summer of 1945, which he spent in Cape Cod.
Rorem, Ned (1923- )
Rorem was born in Indiana and raised a Quaker. He studied music at Northwestern, Curtis, and Juilliard. He won a Pulitzer Prize for music in 1976 and is also known as a diarist. Rorem would describe his style as a “chromatic tonal idiom.” He often attacked the doctrines of the avant-garde.
Mountain Song captures the spirit of a rural Kentucky folk song.
Lavista, Mario (1943-2021)
Lavista was born in Mexico City. He studied at the National Conservatory in 1963 and then went to Paris, where he studied with Boulanger, Stockhausen, and others. In 1970 he founded Quanta, an improvisation group. Lavista worked in the electronic music studios in Tokyo from 1972 until at the end of the 70’s when he started collaborating with soloists and chamber ensembles. He founded the Latin American music journal Pauta.
In addition to many other awards, in 1987 he won a Guggenheim Fellowship for his opera Aura. Lavista has been a visiting professor at many U.S. universities including UC San Diego.
Dans de la Balarinas is based on Lavista’s musical interpretation of Degas’ paintings of ballerinas.
Mower, Mike (1958- )
Mower was born the same year as Ellen in Bath, UK. He studied flute at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Known as both a composer and flutist, Mower is also a self-taught saxophonist. He has his own publishing company, “Itchy Fingers.”
“Shuffle” from Opus di Jazz is based on a melody Mower had proposed for a cartoon series.
