GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS (Live in person free concerts) 10/18/23

Free Admission GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS   

Every First & Third Wednesday at 12:10-12:40 pm  

has returned to live performances

in the Sanctuary of Glendale City Church!

RELAX DURING YOUR LUNCH HOUR WITH LIVE MUSIC

Please wear a mask in the Sanctuary. 

 610 E. California Ave Glendale, CA 91206

On Wednesday, OCTOBER 18, 2023 at 12:10 -12:40 pm PT,

the Free Admission Glendale Noon Concerts program

will be performed live in the Sanctuary of Glendale City Church.

PARKING INFO:

https://glendalecitychurch.org/location


Glendale Noon Concerts  10/18/23

at 12:10-12:40 pm PT

CATHERINE DEL RUSSO 

SOLO OBOE RECITAL

Deux pièces pour hautbois, Opus 272, by Cyril Plante

     1. Avec passion

     2. Avec joie

 

Trois pièces pour hautbois solo, Opus 164, by Cyril Plante

     1. Moderato

     2. Andante

     3. Presto

 

Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, Op. 49, by Benjamin Britten

     1. Pan

     2. Phaeton

     3. Niobe

     4. Bacchus

     5. Narcissus

     6. Arethusa

 

Mora for Solo Oboe by Jeremy Gilien

Movement I

Freely and Mysteriously

 

Scroll down to see artist bio::

 

STILL AVAILABLE! Watch

previous Glendale Noon Concerts streamed concerts

(April 2020-February 1, 2023):

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

Read about the previous programs:   

http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com

Facebook  10/18/23 event page:

 https://www.facebook.com/events/1005719020660284

 

Preview of the NEXT CONCERT:

Wednesday NOVEMBER  1, 2023

at 12:10-12:40 pm PT

MAKSIM VELICHKIN

Piano Improvisations

 

 

Please check the link below for updates

http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com

 

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

Much appreciation to the Hennings-Fischer Foundation for their mission to support art and education and their generous grant to GNC.

 

 ARTIST BIO:

Catherine Del Russo received her Bachelor of Music

Degree and Performance Certificate at the Eastman

School of Music where she studied with Robert

Sprenkle. She also received her Masters of Music

Degree from Ohio University where she studied

with John Mack in Cleveland.

Since then, Ms. Del Russo has performed around

the world, beginning with the Eastman Wind

Ensemble to the Far East as Principal Oboe. After

that, she performed with the Buffalo Philharmonic,

Orchestra Filharmonica de Caracas, and Orquesta

Municipal in Caracas, Venezuela. Ms. Del Russo has

played with many orchestras in Los Angeles,

including the Glendale Symphony Orchestra, the

Santa Barbara Symphony, Santa Barbara Chamber

Orchestra, the Desert Symphony, Long Beach

Symphony, the Los Angeles Mozart Orchestra,

Riverside Symphony, San Bernardino Symphony,

and was Associate Principal Oboe with the Honolulu

Symphony. Currently, she is Principal Oboe of Opera

Santa Barbara, Orchestra Santa Monica, Downey Symphony, Asia America Orchestra, Second Oboe and English horn with the Mozart Classical Orchestra,and solo English horn with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. Catherine has enjoyed playing on films, commercials and television shows. She has been a promoter of chamber music and new music in Los Angeles. In 2011, she won the Consortium of Southern California Chamber Music Presenter's with a chamber music trio for oboe, viola and piano. Catherine is the founding member of Lobo Ensemble, a chamber music group, consisting of oboe, violin, and cello, for which she performs recitals regularly. Catherine is Professor of Oboe at Westmont College and Occidental College.

PROGRAM NOTES:

 

Cyril Plante (b. 1975) is a prolific French composer.

Holder of a doctorate in comparative literature and music dedicated to Richard Wagner, passionate about operas and in particular German romantic music, he is currently co-editorial manager of the website The Richard Wagner Virtual Museum, alongside Nicolas Crapanne. He also serves as vice-president of the Cercle National Richard Wagner in Paris.

https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Plante,_Cyril

 

Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, op. 49, by Benjamin Britten, 1951.

Britten composed this work for solo oboe for the oboist Joy Boughton who premiered the piece at the Aldeburgh festival in 1951.  The 6 movements are programmatic in both their suggestive titles and musical devices.  For example, the first movement, “Pan: who played upon the reed pipe which was Syrinx, his beloved,” uses a free rhythm to evoke the mythological character.  In the second movement, “Phaethon, who rode upon the chariot of the sun for one day and was hurled into the river Padus by a thunderbolt” Britten composed a fast, moving rhythm to represent the flying chariot.  Britten used the expressive marking piagendo or “weeping” for the third movement “Niobe who, lamenting the death of her fourteen children, was turned into a mountain.”  The remaining movements are: (4) “Bacchus, at whose feasts is heard the noise of gaggling women's tattling tongues and shouting out of boys,” (5) ”Narcissus, who fell in love with his own image and became a flower” and (6) “Arethusa, who, flying from the love of Alpheus the river god, was turned into a fountain.”

Attribution: Naxos Music Library

 Jeremy Gilien Bio:

Jeremy Gilien is a Los Angeles-based composer best known for his operas 'The Magician', and 'The Happy Prince' as well as chamber music, ballet class music, and songs. He was a founding faculty member of the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, where he taught music theory and history, and was music director/conductor of the school's Musical Theatre Ensemble.  He is currently a pianist with the Dance Department of The Colburn School, and music director/organist of Downey United Methodist Church. 

Notes on 'Mora' for solo Oboe:

'Mora' for solo Oboe was inspired by director Curtis Harrington's  classic cult film 'Night Tide,' about a young woman who lives above the merry-go-round on Santa Monica pier and works as a carnival mermaid at a nearby amusement park.  The eerie, other-worldly melodies attempt to depict the mysterious song of the Sirens that enchanted and led sea-faring men to a watery grave.