FREE ADMISSION GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS
Every FIRST & THIRD WEDNESDAY at 12:10-12:40 pm
On Wednesday, SEPTEMBER 19, 2018 at 12:10-12:40 pm:
The Calico Winds will perform Ladder Variations by well-known Los Angeles
composer and educator George Heussenstamm and premier a quintet written
for them by noted film composer John Scott:
Program:
Ladder Variations——George Heussenstamm
Wind Quintet--John Scott
1. Lento-Allegro Vivace
2. Moderately slow
3. Allegretto
4. Presto
Performers:
CALICO WINDS
Eileen Holt – flute
Ted Sugata – oboe
Kathryn Nevin – clarinet
Theresa Treuenfels – bassoon
Rachel Berry - horn
(photo courtesy of Gary Silk)
RELAX DURING YOUR LUNCH HOUR WITH LIVE MUSIC
PLEASE NOTE:
The Glendale Noon Concerts series now takes place
in the Sanctuary at
GLENDALE CITY CHURCH
610 E. California Ave (at Isabel St)
Glendale, CA 91206
However due to renovation in the Sanctuary
this concert will take place in the Chapel
(entrance on Isabel St).
INFO:
(NO SOLICITATIONS, PLEASE: Glendale Noon Concerts
is not accepting artists to the program.)
Call 818-244-7241 (office)
or email glendalesda@gmail.com
General info & parking:
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UPCOMING CONCERTS in the same series:
(every FIRST & THIRD WEDNESDAY at 12:10-12:40 pm;
With style and grace, Calico Winds is taking wind music to the
forefront of the chamber music world by artfully reinventing the conventional
wind quintet.
They chose the name “Calico” to reflect the many colors and
textures offered by the instruments of their ensemble. The group blends
top-notch playing, great music and an appealing atmosphere, their repertoire
incorporating a wide variety of classical music. “They cross all the style
lines and get away with it.” (Los Angeles Times).
Calico Winds have delighted audiences across the country,
touring to more than half the fifty states, including numerous cities
throughout their home state of California. They are currently
ensemble-in-residence at Glendale Noon Concerts. Said of their program, “The
artists played in perfect balance with each other, each contributing lovely
tone quality and flawless intonation. An unusually fine and beautiful
program…played with rock-solid competence and interpretive flair. It was a
fantastic evening of music.” (The Times Herald, Olean, NY)
In 2009 Calico Winds were concerto soloists with Frank Fetta
conducting the Culver City Symphony, premiering Sinfonia Concertante for wind
quintet and orchestra, a work they commissioned from Los Angeles composer
Damian Montano. The ensemble performed at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall
both as part of the “Classical Connections” Young Performers Career Advancement
program sponsored by the Association of Performing Arts Presenters and in
recital with pianist Vivian Liu in a performance of Ludwig Thuille’s Romantic
Sextet.
In 1998 Calico Winds released their first CD, All in One [Bach,
Nielsen, E. Carter, L. Schifrin, Zappa] to critical acclaim. Their second CD,
released on Albany Records (2004), Vintage America: A Musical Meritage,
features a diverse collection of original and arranged works reflecting the
music and life of early Americans. In this recording “Calico Winds bring
refreshing lightness to music that is too often bellowed…the quintet’s suave
phrasing, lively articulation and rhythmic buoyancy are a delight throughout.”
(Gramophone)
Calico Winds has held residencies at La Sierra University, the
Idyllwild Arts Academy and with the Claremont Youth Symphony Music Retreat in
California as well as at the Birch Creek Music Festival in Door County,
Wisconsin. They have been the featured ensemble for the Coleman Chamber Music
Association’s Meet the Musicians concerts. As winners of the 1998 National
Flute Association (NFA) Chamber Music Competition the ensemble was featured in
recital at the NFA convention in Phoenix, Arizona. They have received a grant
from the City of Pasadena for The Weekend Muse Inter-Generational Concerts, a
series they self-produced in Los Angeles and Pasadena.
The members of Calico Winds think of themselves as a team whose
sum is greater than its parts. Despite their resisting the publishing of
individual bios, presenters and audience members continue to be interested in
each person on stage. To satisfy this curiosity, they have developed “Calico
Stats” (vital statistics of each member) which you can view on their website
calicowinds.com.
Here is some information about them as individuals:
Between the five of them they have earned one Bachelor of Arts,
four Bachelors of Music, four Masters of Music and one (almost two) Doctor of
Musical Arts degrees. Their combined musical travels have brought them
from Europe to Israel to Mexico and all over North America. They are all active
free-lance players in Los Angeles, together having a diverse array of musical
experiences from ensembles such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Diego
Symphony and Los Angeles Opera, to working with performers like Yanni, Michael
Crawford, Cheap Trick, Elton John and Andrea Bocelli. All of them teach.
Eileen is a professional vocalist, Theresa is a gourmet cook,
Kay and Rachel run the business of Calico Winds. Ted is a parent to Lewis, born
in December, 2011. Kay and Theresa are each parents of dogs. They all enjoy
hiking, a good cup of coffee, and fine food and spirits, such as their
signature cocktail, Calico Tea, their “special” recipe for Calico Coffee, and
their Calico Wings flambé, all recipes found on calicowinds.com.
George Heussenstamm received all of his musical training in the Southern
California area. Winner of numerous national and international composition
competitions, he is a member of ASCAP, is an honorary member of the
international music fraternity, Sigma Alpha Iota, and is a former member of the
American Society of University Composers (now called SCI) and the International
Society for Contemporary Music. He was a member of NACUSA (National Association
of Composers, USA), in which he served as Vice- President for many years. In
1976 and 1981 he was the recipient of Fellowship Grants from the National
Endowment for the Arts. Eight of his compositions were recorded on LP and six
of these have been committed to CD. From 1971 to 1984 he was Manager of the
Coleman Chamber Music Association, the oldest continuing chamber music series
in the country.
Since 1976 Heussenstamm taught at Cal
State Dominguez Hills, Cal State Los Angeles, Ambassador College, and steadily
for 17 years at California State University, Northridge, prior to his retirement
in June, 2000.
Composer of more than 85 published works,
he is the author of the book, The
Norton Manual of Music Notation
released by W.W. Norton and Co. in March, 1987, and still a mainstay in the
literature about the notation of music, making Heussenstamm one of the leading
authorities in this field. He has also written a two-volume textbook on tonal
harmony,Handbook of Harmony, which was the required harmony textbook at
CSUN for several years. It has now been published in two volumes by Hal Leonard
Corp. under the title, Hal Leonard Theory and Harmony and is available at book stores everywhere. His Handbook of Tonal Counterpoint, as yet unfinished, is written in a style geared for maximum
comprehension by college-level students.
Composing in a wide spectrum
of media, George Heussenstamm's compositions have been performed with
regularity both here and abroad. He is perhaps best known for his large-scale
compositions for saxophone and brass ensembles.
Among his non-academic activities are
fishing, pocket billiards, going to concerts, and Scrabble. He was for 17 years
the director of a Scrabble club in Glendale, California, and was chosen as
Director of the Year in 1991 by the National Scrabble Association. He is an
avid follower of national and international affairs, his primary source being
BBC World Service over XM satellite radio. Married in 1957, his wife, Mary
(1930-2005), was a locally well-known watercolor portraitist. Her book,
Watercolor Portraits Painted on the Streets of Los Angeles, has been widely
acclaimed.
After being very active in the 60s pop scene, John Scott has developed into a
respected film music composer, now living in London and Hollywood. During his
early career he acted as staff arranger with the Ted Heath band, playing
saxophone, clarinet, harp and flute; for many years he was regarded as one of
England’s foremost jazz flautists. ‘Johnny’ Scott (as he was then known) also
played in the Woody Herman orchestra, and arranged for Bert Ambrose. He claimed
to have learned much from Henry Mancini, when playing for him on flute and
saxophone in London sessions for films including Charade and Arabesque. For a
while he worked closely with John Barry in The John Barry Seven, and played on
Barry’s scores for Beat Girl (1959) and The Whisperers (1967), as well as on
several early James Bond movies. In the record studios Scott accompanied Cilla
Black, Tom Jones, Matt Monro, the Hollies, Shirley Bassey, Elkie Brooks, Gerry
And The Pacemakers, P.J. Proby, Edward Woodward, the Mike Sammes Singers,
Freddie And The Dreamers, Spike Milligan and Charlie Drake. In the mid-60s he
formed his own jazz combo - the Johnny Scott Quintet - playing flute with
Duncan Lamont on saxophone, Barry Morgan on drums, David Snell on harp and
Arthur Watts on bass. His growing interest in composition led him to offer his
work to mood music publishers for their recorded music libraries, for the use
of radio, film and television companies. Scott’s music was published by Keith
Prowse, Peer International and Boosey & Hawkes. His score for a 1965
promotional film Shellarama brought offers for his first feature film, A Study
In Terror (1965), which he wrote as ‘Patrick John Scott’. He was persuaded to
change it to ‘Johnny’, but as his film work grew he decided that ‘John’ seemed
more suitable. His next assignments included Doctor In Clover (1966), Rocket To
The Moon (1966) and The Long Duel (1967). In 1971 an operation on his lower jaw
forced him to give up playing, since when he has concentrated on composition.
Major film scores followed: Jerusalem File (1971), Antony And Cleopatra (1972),
England Made Me (1973), Penny Gold (1973), The Final Countdown (1980),
Greystoke (1984), The Shooting Party (1984), King Kong Lives (1986), Deadly
Pursuit (US title Shoot To Kill) (1987), Man On Fire (1987), The Deceivers
(1988), Winter People (1989), Black Rainbow (1990). His work onInseminoid
(1980) received the 1981 award for Best Musical Score at the International
Festival of Horror and Science Fiction films in Madrid, Spain. Television
credits include themes for Thames Report (ITV), Tonight (BBC), Midweek (BBC),
Nationwide (BBC) and episodes for The World About Us (BBC), The Queen’s Garden
(1985) and Survival (Anglia Television). Recent work has included numerous
Jacques Cousteau specials such as Clipperton - The Island Time Forgot (1981),
The Warm Blooded Sea (1983), The Amazon (1983) and the Cousteau 75th Birthday
tribute (1985). His television work has been rewarded with two Emmys - Wild
Dogs Of Africa (a 1972 documentary) and Little Vic (a 1978 mini-series). After
years of making recordings with many record companies, Scott has established
his own label JOS Records to promote his own scores.
