Monday, March 25, 2024

GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS (Live in person free concerts) 4/3/24

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 APRIL 3, 2024 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  4/3/24

at 12:10-12:40 pm PT

 

Daniel Kessner - flute/bass flute

Suzanne Julian - piano

 

Program information:

 

Philippe Gaubert (1879-1941)

Madrigal for Flute and Piano

 

Daniel Kessner (b. 1946)

Imaginary Temple, for Bass Flute and Bell Sounds (pre-recorded)

 

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

Two Songs Without Words:

Elegy, Andante sostenuto, Op. 85, No. 4

Allegro leggiero, Op. 67, No. 2

 

Joachim Andersen (1847-1909)

Deuxième Impromptu

pour la Flûte et Piano, Op. 54 –

 

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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 4/3/24 event page: 

 

https://www.facebook.com/events/1823281711426002

 

Preview of the NEXT CONCERT:

Wednesday APRIL 17, 2024

at 12:10-12:40 pm PT

 

PIANIST  BRENDAN WHITE

 

Franz Liszt. Les jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este

 

Maurice Ravel. La Vallée des cloches

 

George Gershwin. Rhapsody in Blue

 

Please check the link below for updates

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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:

https://www.universaledition.com/en/Contacts/Daniel-Kessner/

Born in Los Angeles in 1946, composer-conductor-flutist Daniel Kessner received his Ph.D. with Distinction at UCLA in 1971, studying with Henri Lazarof. His more than 180 compositions have received over 1000 performances, and are published by Universal Edition in Vienna. Most important awards include the 1972 Queen Marie-José International Composition Prize in Geneva, a 2003 Fulbright Senior Scholar Award in Trossingen, Germany, a Fulbright Senior Specialist Grant in Trondheim, Norway in 2007, a residency at the Universidade do Minho in Portugal in 2011, and most recently one at Paradise AIR (Artist-in-Residence) in Matsudo, Japan. He is Professor Emeritus at California State University, Northridge, retired in 2006 after a career of 36 years teaching composition, music theory, and directing various ensembles.

 

Suzanne Julian was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Sherman Oaks, California, where she began private piano study with Erma Bassett and Louise Meacham, and later, as a student at CSUN, with Adrian Ruiz and Jakob Gimpel.  She received both her B.A. in Music and her M.A. in Piano Performance from CSUN, during which time she was the recipient of various awards in piano performance, chamber music, music composition, and student teaching.  She has taught applied and class piano, music theory and appreciation, and served as an accompanist at CSUN, Moorpark College, East Los Angeles College, Pasadena City College, and Los Angeles Valley College.  Suzanne maintained a private piano studio for many years and has performed chamber music, solo piano recitals, and with orchestra at numerous colleges and privates homes in southern California.  She is currently retired and refocusing on piano performance.

 

 

Program Notes

 

Both Philippe Gaubert and Joachim Andersen were flutists as well as composers, writing largely for their own instrument. While their works are known mainly by flutists, both were very accomplished musicians in general, and commanded great respect during their lifetimes. Gaubert’s music most clearly resembles that of his contemporary, Ravel, while Andersen’s style bears some kinship to the music of Wagner. Madrigal is a brief mood piece,” while the Impromptu has large, more dramatic form and materials.

 

Daniel Kessner’s Imaginary Temple was composed last September during his stay at Paradise AIR (Artist-in-Residence) in Matsudo, Japan. The accompanying electronic sounds, while completely digitally created, were inspired by the various bells and gongs in ancient Japanese temples.

 

Among the piano pieces composed by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) are his volume of 48 Lieder ohne Worte (Songs without Words), written from 1830-1835.  They are short, lovely gems, so named for possessing such lyricism that they appear as songs for the piano’s “voice.”  Most begin with an introductory accompaniment that continues throughout the piece and concludes it.  Of the two performed today, the first, Elegy, is one of his most beloved, expressing an exquisite, heartfelt melody and a passionate middle section.  The second, Lost Illusions, follows a similar form with a staccato accompaniment throughout and a lyrical, legato melody.  

 

Program notes by Daniel Kessner and Suzanne Julian


Monday, March 11, 2024

GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS (Live in person free concerts) 3/20/24

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, MARCH 20, 2024 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  3/20/24

at 12:10-12:40 pm PT

 

KEWA ENSEMBLE:

JACQUELINE SUZUKI – violin

PATRICK MARSH - viola

CLEMENT CHOW -cello

 

Program:

FRANZ SCHUBERT (Austrian, 1797-1828)

String Trio in B flat major, D.471

Allegro

 

ERNO DOHNANYI (Hungarian, 1877-1960)

Serenade in C major, Op.10

Marcia.Allegro

Romanza.Adagio non troppo

Scherzo-Vivace

Tema con variazioni. Andante con moto

Rondo


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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 3/20/24 event page: 

https://www.facebook.com/events/2251581511711996

Preview of the NEXT CONCERT:

Wednesday APRIL 3, 2024

at 12:10-12:40 pm PT

COMPOSER-FLUTIST DANIEL  KESSNER
https://www.universaledition.com/en/Contacts/Daniel-Kessner/

 

 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:

JACQUELINE SUZUKI, violin, is a longtime member of the Long Beach and Santa Barbara Symphonies.

She initiated and curates a twice monthly chamber music series, the Free Admission Glendale Noon Concerts. A current schedule may be seen at http://www.glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com

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.



PATRICK MARSH received his bachelor’s degree in viola performance from the University of Michigan and is currently attending The Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins as a viola major.

As a violist, Patrick was one of the founding members of “Clemens Quartet,” a string quartet performing and competing throughout the United States. As a violinist, Patrick is a former concertmaster of The Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. His performance opportunities have taken him across the United States, Europe, and St. Petersburg Russia.

Though classical music is the foundation of his technique, he can be found branching out into the jazz and rock genres. Patrick plays a blue Fourness Fuse 5-string electric violin and runs it through a Line6 Helix for effects, and two Gallien Krueger bass amps in stereo.

Patrick can also be heard as a featured soloist in such feature films as “Kids vs. Monsters” and “Pali Road” as well as such video games as “Relics of Gods” and Disney’s “Cartooniverse.” https://www.patrickmarshmusic.com/

 

CLEMENT CHOW has studied at Rice University and Cleveland Institute of Music where he received his Bachelor and Master of Music. He has been to music festivals around the world which include the Aspen Music Festival, Pacific Music Festival in Japan, as well as Schleswig Holstein Music Festival in Germany. He made his solo debut with the Houston Symphony at the age of 16. He has also studied with some of the greatest chamber music groups around the world. The groups include Tokyo, Cleveland, Alban Berg, and Amadeus String Quartets.

 PROGRAM NOTES:

https://www.earsense.org/chamber-music/Franz-Schubert-String-Trio-in-B-flat-major-D-471/

https://www.earsense.org/chamber-music/Erno-Dohnanyi-Serenade-for-String-Trio-in-C-major-Op-10/

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS (Live in person free concerts) 3/6/24

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, MARCH 6, 2024 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  3/6/24

at 12:10-12:40 pm PT

 

DUO RECITAL

KEN AISO – violin

VALERIA MORGOVSKAYA – piano

 

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (German, 1770-1827)

Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, Op. 24 “Spring”

Allegro

Adagio molto espressivo

Scherzo: Allegro molto

Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo

 

MARK SAYA (American, b. 1954)

Fiona's Dance Card

1. Waltz with a Wallaby

2. The Tiger's Tango

 Encore: "Sentimental Tango" by Vaja Azarashvili (Georgian composer).

https://en.wikpedia.org/wiki/Vaja_Azarashvili

 Watch a video of the encore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTpgrSoXako

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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 3/6/24 event page: 

https://www.facebook.com/events/280653048212663

Preview of the NEXT CONCERT:

Wednesday March 20, 2024

at 12:10-12:40 pm PT

KEWA ENSEMBLE:

Jacqueline Suzuki – violin

Patrick Marsh – viola

Clement Chow – cello

Works by Bach & Dohnanyi

 

 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. Aiso graduated from 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, Aiso has appeared as principal violin with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the London Philharmonic, the Hallé and the Scottish Chamber Orchestras.

He was invited to renowned music festivals in the U.K., France, Sweden, Switzerland, India, Georgia, Bolivia and Kazakhstan, and has taught at Montecito Summer Music Festival since 2008. Aiso 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, Aiso has been serving as faculty at Loyola Marymount and La Sierra Universities, and performs with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.

 

Pianist Valeria Morgovskaya graduated from the Kiev State Conservatory. Since her immigration to the U.S. in 1990, 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 Beverly Hills Music Festival, and has performed throughout the U.S., 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). 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.

Glendale Noon Concerts is celebrating its 16th year of presenting free admission concerts every first and third Wednesdays for Glendale and the Southland community.

 

“Dedicated to Count Moritz von Fries, who was a patron of Beethoven, Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24 is known as the "Spring" Sonata, as it manages to capture a sense of colorful blooming movement after movement. The first movement is an Allegro, with its serene theme contrasting the technical boldness of the Adagio, which combines high technical virtuosity with a song-like form. Then, a Scherzo in the style of Haydn precedes the final Rondo, which brings together the supple harmonies of the Allegro, the gracefulness of the Adagio, and the finesse of the Scherzo!” -medici.tv

 

Mark Saya, from Michigan City, Indiana, studied composition at Indiana University South Bend with Barton McLean and David Barton, and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music with Norman Dinerstein, Jonathan Kramer, and Allen Sapp. He has enjoyed a long association with The Percussion Group/Cincinnati, particularly with founding members Allen Otte and James Culley, who have premiered and championed many of his compositions, including The Murphy Sonata, for solo vibraphone, and From the Book of Imaginary Beings and Bachanons, for three percussionists. His works for two pianos with large percussion ensembles (12 to 18 players) include Last Week, This Week, Next Week, an orchestration of Bahamut (one of the Imaginary Beings), and a transcription of Scriabin's Vers la flamme. Most recently he has written Unfinished Life, a 29-movement composition for vibraphone.

Saya also has composed a variety of vocal works and several suites for solo piano, including Seven Preludes Revisited, Joshu's Piano Book, Just-These Pieces, and The Cabinet of Dreams. Seven Preludes Revisited has been recorded by Wojciech Kocyan for Dux Recording Producers and Jeffrey Jacob on New Ariel Recordings. Another piece for solo piano, Barcarolles, can be heard on the Hyperion Records anthology of encores played by Piers Lane entitled Piers Lane Goes to Town.

Several of his compositions for percussion and piano are published by Media Press. His works have been performed in Australia, Canada, China, Japan, and throughout Europe and the United States, including performances at the Great Hall of Cooper Union, Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and many major universities. Saya has received awards from ASCAP, BMI, New England Conservatory, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Society of Composers, Inc. He is a Professor of Composition and Music Theory at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.