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:
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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
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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 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.
