GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS (Live in person free concerts) 12/6/23

 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, DECEMBER 6, 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  12/6/23

at 12:10-12:40 pm PT

Ruth Kasckow -flute

Bryan Pezzone - piano 

 

Three Romances by Robert Schumann, Op. 94 

1. Nicht schnell

2. Einfach, innig

3. Nicht schnell

 

Sonata for Flute and Piano by Jindrich Feld   

1. Allegro giocoso

2. Grave

3. Allegro vivace

 

Scroll down to see artist bios:

 

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 12/6/23 event page: 

https://www.facebook.com/events/892267538926039

Preview of the NEXT CONCERT:

Wednesday DECEMBER 20, 2023

at 12:10-12:40 pm PT

Duo Recital

Nancy Roth -violin

Lorenzo Sanchez - piano

Works by

Sami Seif Rhapsodic Reflecions

Fazil Say Sonata for Violin and Piano Op. 7

John Adams Road Movies

 

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 BIOS:

Flutist Ruth Kasckow, an engaging performer and innovative music educator in the Los Angeles area, enjoys playing solo recitals as well as chamber music with her group the Avanti Ensemble focusing on music for flute, violin and viola. Kasckow has performed in several orchestras including Burbank Symphony, Santa Monica Symphony, LCPC Orchestra and Orquesta Mexicana de la juventud, as well as numerous chamber music ensembles. As a music educator Kasckow currently maintains a thriving flute studio in La Cañada and, as a licensed body mapping educator, teaches musicians how to play in a healthy way to improve performance and avoid injury. Her publications include “The Flute Duet Practice Books” and “Chinese Folk Song Suite for Flute Quartet” and her two CDs “French Impressions for Flute” and “German Expressions for Flute.” Kasckow holds an MFA from California Institute of the Arts. www.flutemuse.com

 

Bryan Pezzone maintains an active freelance performing and recording career and has been based in the Los Angeles area since 1987. He is known for playing in all genres, equally comfortable in the classical repertoire (including contemporary music and premieres) as well as in pop/jazz and improvisation. Pezzone has spent his entire life, from 18 months of age, at the piano, which he calls “home.”

He plays solo piano as well as performing in collaborations of all kinds. Pezzone was the principal pianist with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra from its inception in 1991 through 1999. From 1987 to 2000, he was the chair and founder of the multi-focused keyboard program at the California Institute of the Arts. He has recorded on innumerable motion picture and television soundtracks. Beginning in the fall term 2017, Pezzone was asked to join the faculty of the Los Angeles College of Music as a multi-stylistic specialist. He holds a degree from the Eastman School of Music and afterwards spent a year at the Banff Centre in Canada to focus on his own stylistic interplay, philosophies and originality.

 

Program Notes:

In 1849, Schumann gifted chamber music works to three wind instruments: the clarinet with the “Drei Fantasiestücke” op. 73, the horn with the Adagio and Allegro op. 70, and the oboe with these “Drei Romanzen” op. 94. In the first Romance we have a ballade-like mood in a minor. The second romance resembles a song without words, and is in A major, while the finale, with its calling motifs and piano arpeggios, recalls the popular poems of Northern Europe of the time. Composed in December 1849, the Romanzen were presented to Schumann’s wife Clara as a Christmas present. The Romances have been transcribed for flute. -Henle

 

Jindrich Feld's Sonata for Flute and Piano is frequently performed by virtuoso flautists. Composed in 1957, the Sonata is elaborate and quirky, and has been recorded by leading artists, including Jeffrey Khaner and James Galway.

Born in Prague, Feld (1925-2007) studied Violin and Viola with his parents before studying at the Conservatory and Academy of Music of his native city. His compositions, predominantly instrumental, soon became popular, being performed all over the world. As reflected in his Sonata for Flute and Piano, Feld's style is deeply rooted in the Czech musical tradition, but he also integrated the main styles of 20th century Western music. Each movement of the Sonata presents different challenges, from fast semiquaver flourishes to the lyrical top register of the Flute. This Feld piece is highly virtuosic.

-Boosey & Hawkes

GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS (Live in person free concerts) 11/15/23

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, NOVEMBER 15, 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  11/15/23

at 12:10-12:40 pm PT

Ken Aiso - violin

Valeria Morgovskaya – piano

 

MAURICE RAVEL

Sonate posthume pour Violon et Piano (1897)

 

EDWARD ELGAR

Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 82 (1918)

Allegro. Risoluto

Romance. Andante

Allegro non troppo

 

Scroll down to see artist bios:

 

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 11/15/23 event page: 

https://www.facebook.com/events/320267017405916

Preview of the NEXT CONCERT:

Wednesday DECEMBER 6, 2023

at 12:10-12:40 pm PT

Duo Recital

Ruth Kasckow -flute

Bryan Pezzone - piano

 

 

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 BIOS:

Internationally acclaimed violinist/violist Ken Aiso has performed worldwide as soloist, chamber and orchestral musician. Ken graduated form the Royal Academy of Music in London studying with Erich Gruenberg. His other teachers include Eduard Schmieder and Chikashi Tanaka. Equally at home with modern and period instruments, Ken has appeared as principal violin with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the London Philharmonic, the Hallé and the Scottish Chamber Orchestras.

He has been invited to renowned music festivals in UK, France, Sweden, Switzerland, India, Georgia, Bolivia and Kazakhstan, and has taught at Montecito Summer Music Festival since 2008. Ken is a laureate of Long-Thibaud International Competition in Paris and International Music Competition of Japan, and was elected Associate of Royal Academy of Music in London. He received Shimousa Kan-ichi Music Award in his native Japan in 2018. Since moving to Los Angeles in 2015, Ken has been serving as faculty at Loyola Marymount and La Sierra Universities, and performs with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.

 

Valeria Morgovskaya, pianist, graduated from the Kiev State Conservatory. Since her immigration to the US in 1990, Ms Morgovskaya has been in high demand as accompanist for singers and all orchestral instrumentalists. She has been an official accompanist to festivals and courses such as Piatigorsky Cello Seminar and Beverley Hills Music Festival, and has performed throughout the US, Germany and Japan, as well as on numerous radio broadcast. She has provided accompaniment for many national and international competitions, and was an official accompanist at Schoenfeld International String Competition in Hong Kong (2013) and Harbin (2014). Ms. Morgovskaya is currently staff accompanist at Loyola Marymount University and UCLA, and is often engaged in that capacity at USC, Cal State Long Beach, Colburn School, Montecito International Music Festival, Academy of the West and Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts.

Program Notes:

In June 1895, the twenty-year-old Maurice Ravel’s Conservatoire professor Émile Pessard described his harmony exercises as ‘exact’—Pessard lived on until 1917, perhaps long enough to blush at this judgment. At all events, in the exam in the summer of 1895 these exercises weren’t exact enough for the jury and Ravel had to leave the institution, before returning as a member of Fauré’s composition class in January 1898. In the meantime, he began a Violin Sonata in A major, but got no further than the first movement. This information comes from a note he sent to the violinist Paul Oberdoerffer in June 1929, consisting of the opening violin phrase and a dedication to him ‘in memory of the 1st performance of the uncompleted first sonata (18…)’. Oberdoerffer went on to teach violin at the Conservatoire and wrote light music for his instrument with titles such as Chinoiserie and La petite fleur de mon jardin. Ravel’s single movement, in sonata form, juxtaposes modal writing, as at the opening, with more chromatic harmonies, including two passages of downward sliding chords that sound like Delius. The joins may not always be totally convincing, but there is no mistaking Ravel’s way with a lyrical idea. -Roger Nichols

 

Elgar’s father, in addition to owning a music shop, tuned pianos and played the organ at church, so it was almost inevitable that young Edward would learn these instruments. But the violin was the instrument he truly loved. He played it in many amateur orchestras, and for a time planned on a solo career. His Violin concerto (Op. 61) is one of the most significant of the twentieth century. Yet, unaccountably, the Violin sonata is neglected in almost inverse proportion to the fame of the concerto. This sonata, Elgar’s last work for violin, written in 1918, is a 25-minute masterpiece imbued with the spontaneous lyricism of Schubert and the passionate warmth of Brahms. Elgar himself left this concise description of his sonata: “The first movement is bold and vigorous, then a fantastic, curious movement with a very expressive middle section; a melody for the violin they say it is as good or better than anything I have done in the expressive way … the last movement is very broad and soothing, like the last movement of the Second Symphony.”

-Ning Feng