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 20, 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 12/20/23
at 12:10-12:40 pm PT
Watch the archived performance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBOqZDeM364
Nancy Roth, violin
Lorenzo Sánchez, piano
Sami Seif
(b. 1998) Rhapsodic Reflections (2019)
John Adams Road Movies
(b. 1947) I. (Allegro)
II. Contemplative
III. “40% Swing”
Fazil Say
(b.1970) Sonata for Violin and Piano (1997)
I. Melancholy
II. Grotesque
III. Perpetuum Mobile
lV. Anonym…
V. Melancholy (Da Capo)
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 12/20/23 event page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/201755999654565
Preview of the NEXT CONCERT:
Wednesday JANUARY 3, 2024
at 12:10-12:40 pm PT
JAZZ DUO
DOUG WEBB-saxophone
JOSH NELSON -piano
Please check the link below for updates
http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com
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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:
Nancy Roth, violinist (and violist), is currently the concertmaster of the Culver City Symphony and Marina del Rey Summer Symphony. She is also concertmaster of the Chamber Orchestra of the South Bay and a member of the Pasadena Symphony. She is a former member of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, was co-principal violist of the Graz Philharmonic in Austria, and served many years as concertmaster of the San Fernando Valley Symphony Orchestra and the Carson-Dominguez Hills Symphony. Roth has been a featured soloist with numerous Southern California orchestras including the Culver City Symphony, Carson Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of the South Bay, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and Southland Symphony Orchestra. She has given recitals and radio broadcasts in the United States, Austria and Mexico, and is currently a member of the new music group “TEMPO” based at California State University Northridge. Roth is a member of the String Family Players (quintet), which performs educational programs for the Music Center On Tour, and she has been on the faculty of the Max Aronoff Viola Institute Summer Music Festival. She has played baroque violin and viola with James Tyler in the London Early Music Group and Los Angeles Musica Viva. Nancy holds a Bachelor of Music from CSUN, a Master of Music from the Juilliard School and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Southern California.
Lorenzo Sánchez, pianist, has enjoyed interpreting music of a variety of styles and nationalities in the United States, Mexico, and Europe. Sánchez premiered Robert Guillory’s “Concertino for Piano and Orchestra.” His interest in Polish music led to him giving several lecture performances at the Paderewski Festival in Paso Robles. He has performed for African American composer George Walker and Japanese composer Mitsuru Asaka in Hawaii. He has played for several choirs touring Italy, The Vatican and several Filipino community celebration masses at Our Lady Queen of Angels in Los Angeles. Looking toward his heritage, Sánchez has edited and helped publish piano works by Mexican composer Domingo Lobato. He has recorded two CDs of Lobato’s solo piano works, and recently released a CD with clarinetist Virginia Figueiredo. All of his recordings are available on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify and others. Sánchez holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree from the University of Southern California.
Program Notes:
Lebanese composer Sami Seif originally composed his Rhapsodic Reflections for oboe and piano. This brief work features the thoughtful expressions played by the violin, colored by the piano’s harmonies.
Road Movies was first performed by two of our great local artists, Robin Lorentz and Vicki Ray, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Terrace Theater in 1995. The outer movements feature a minimalist, driving (pun intended) energy. The landscape changes gradually, while the motor continues to steadily and rhythmically hum.
According to Vicki Ray, “I remember John talking about the 2nd movement—he talked about driving in the desert. Stopping the car by the side of the road in the middle of nowhere and just walking out into the expanse of nothingness. The feeling of utter spaciousness.”
The Sonata by Turkish composer, Fazil Say is a five-movement work, and was commissioned by the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music Association. I’ve included some notes from the composer.
“The Introduction and Epilogue (first and fifth movements) are entitled Melancholy… They express an emotional, perhaps misty romanticism…The middle movements constitute a brief tour through Anatolia…The second movement Grotesque…with the colors produced by the kana and ud, the rhythm of the drum and the various modal motifs.
The third movement Perpetual mobile begins with a stormy
‘Horon’ (Black Sea folk dance) and its uninterrupted frenzy of motion (the violin simulates the playing of the Kemençe, a small stringed instrument of the region) sweeps us into a folkloric environment.
The fourth passage takes as its theme the popular folk song ‘Odam Kireçtir Benin’ (My room is white-washed)… Later, the piano assumes a “solo” reminiscent of improvisation…pressing the piano wires with the left hand to ensure that the notes are closer here to the colors of a ‘baglama.’”
Poem for Fazil Say Violin Sonata #1, Movement 4
My room is chalk,
My face is smiling,
Undress and enter my bosom,
My skin is medicine.
My room doesn’t get limescale
When you don’t mix the sand
Love doesn’t go away
When you don’t hug and go to bed.
Dad, should I be a dervish?
Should I wear my cardigan?
I loved it, my hands took it,
Dad, am I dead?
By the way, Fazil Say is also a brilliant pianist. I first heard of him on Spotify interpreting all of Beethoven’s piano sonatas.
