Streaming on FACEBOOK & YouTube: Glendale Noon Concerts 7/20/22

Streaming on FACEBOOK & YouTube

Glendale Noon Concerts  7/20/22

Harpsichordist Arthur Omura

plays Louis Marchand & J.S.Bach

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

Glendale Noon Concerts will bring our programs

to you via streaming on Facebook and YouTube:

 
The JULY 20, 2022 program can be viewed at this link beginning 

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

LINKS TO VIEW THE CONCERT:  

On Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/jacquelinesuzuki/videos/401104821910832
On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk2ZxNV6ThI

The program will be archived on the

 Glendale City Church YouTube Channel: 

https://www.youtube.com/c/GlendaleCityChurch
 

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 JULY 20, 2022 at 12:10 pm PT:

Harpsichordist Arthur Omura

https://www.arthuromura.com

 

Program:

Louis Marchand

Pièces de Clavecin, Premier Livre –

Prelude

Allemande

Courante II

Sarabande

Gigue

Chaconne

 

J. S. Bach

Suite III, BWV 808 -

Prélude

Allemande

Courante

Sarabande

Gavotte I & II

Gigue

Scroll down to see artist bio.

 

Facebook  July 20 event page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1091536598237063

 

Please check the site below for updates:

http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com

 

Streaming next: Wednesday AUGUST 3, 2022 at 12:10-12:40 pm PT

MIKHAIL MORGOVSKY Piano Recital

Mikhail Morgovsky was born in Kyiv, Ukraine in 1941. He graduated from the Kyiv State Conservatory where he studied with Eugene Rzhanov. Morgovsky worked as a piano soloist and a chamber musician at the Kyiv State Philharmonic and toured extensively throughout the former USSR and abroad.

Morgovsky moved to the United States in 1990 where he concertizes and teaches in his private studio. For many years he was the accompanist at Santa Monica High School and at St. James Presbyterian Church in Tarzana.

 

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:

Arthur Omura is a specialist in historical keyboard instruments based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He studied with Charles Rus in San Francisco, and with Dr. Ladd Thomas and Dr. Lucinda Carver at USC. He has performed at the Boston and Berkeley Early Music festivals and given numerous performances in Los Angeles and the Bay Area. Omura keeps an active performance schedule as an organist and harpsichord player. He has worked with MicroFest, wildUp, iPalpiti, Les Surprises Baroques, Musica Angelica, and the American Bach Soloists. Omura has collaborated on several recordings, most recently on "Kontrapunktus", a collection of new music by composer Mark Moya written in a Baroque idiom.  His interest in instrument making and organology led him to work with harpsichord builder Curtis Berak, whom he has assisted in restoring several instruments, and with organ builder Manuel Rosales. Omura is the director of music at Grace Episcopal Church in Martinez, CA.                  

PROGRAM NOTES:  A “Musical Duel” between J. S. Bach and Louis Marchand (Le Grand)

In 1717 Louis Marchand was on the skids. He was one of the King’s organists, an organiste du Roi, and a prodigious talent on the harpsichord. But he had a temper, and a mouth to match. He had a messy divorce from his wife more than ten years earlier, and had possibly insulted King Louis – not usually something you bounced back from. As a result of all this, he was on a three-year sabbatical in the German states, perhaps looking for a new job far away from Versailles. As it happened the Elector of Saxony, Augustus the Strong, was looking for a new court organist. The only catch was that he had to win a competition with a local keyboardist also interested in the job: Johann Sebastian Bach. This duel never happened, though. Marchand escaped Dresden the night before, perhaps realizing the strong headwinds he would face. Neither he nor Bach ever worked for the Elector; Marchand would return to France and continue being a hot-head, and Bach would become the Kapellmeister of Leipzig. Later Bach biographers reported that he was familiar with Marchand’s keyboard music, and would play it “in his own manner; that is, very lightly and with much art”.