Archive for the ‘Concert’ category

Three Concerts on the First Weekend in November

November 1st, 2018

Early Music Duo “Bedlam”

1867 Sanctuary, 101 Scotch Rd

Ewing, New Jersey 08628

Friday, November 2, 2018, 8:00 p.m.

Admission: $5.00 – $20:00

Preservation New Jersey is pleased to welcome the early music duo BEDLAM (www.bedlamearlymusic.com) back to the 1867 Sanctuary. “The magical duo BEDLAM” (Colin Clarke, Fanfare Magazine) is Kayleen Sánchez, soprano, and Laudon Schuett, lute.

More information: http://1867sanctuary.org/event/bedlam-2/

 

Eduardo Fernández, guitar & David Leisner, guitar

92nd Street Y

1395 Lexington Avenue

New York, NY 10128

Saturday, Novermber 3, 2018, 8:00 p.m.

Admission: Tickets from $53:00

Compositions by both performers are featured on this inventive and wide-ranging program, which also includes several of Villa-Lobos’ groundbreaking Études for Guitar — pieces which set the technical standard for 20th century guitar performance. Fernández and Leisner perform Nagoya Guitars, a complex piece based on constantly-shifting musical patterns by minimalist master Steve Reich; Eduardo Fernández presents his own transcription of Bach’s immortal Chaconne from the D Minor violin sonata; and join together in two selections by two guitarist-composers of an earlier age: Antoine de Lhoyer and Fernando Sor.

More information: https://www.92y.org/event/leisner-and-fernandez

 

Philadelphia Classical Guitar Society presents Adam Levin

Settlement Music School, 416 Queen Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147

Sunday, November 4, 2018, 3:00 p.m.

Admission: $10.00 – $25:00

Praised for his “visceral and imaginative performances” by the Washington Post, top prize winning classical guitarist and recording artist Adam Levin has performed on four continents across the globe. Levin has performed extensively across the United States at renowned venues such as Chicago’s Pick Staiger, Nichols, and Mayne Stage concert halls as well as at the prestigious Art Institute of Chicago; Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, and Jordan Hall; Spivey Hall in Atlanta; repeat appearances at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City; and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. In Europe, Levin has performed in some of the finest venues across Spain, and in Italy, Germany, and Switzerland. In the 2017-2018 season, Levin makes several debut solo, chamber, and orchestral appearances in China, Finland, and Ireland as well as return appearances in Brazil and Spain. Adam Levin’s live performances have been featured nationally numerous times on NPR’s Performance Today, the nationally syndicated Classical Guitar Alive, and studio performances on top radio stations including WFMT Chicago and WCRB Boston.

More information: http://www.phillyguitar.org/event-3051974

MANDOLIN ORCHESTRA TO OPEN 2018-2019 CONCERT SEASON

October 17th, 2018

BLOOMFIELD – The Bloomfield Mandolin Orchestra, under the direction of Maestro Enrico Granafei, will officially open its new season in the Little Theater of the Bloomfield Public Library, 90 Broad Street, on Saturday, October 27 at 1 PM.  The program will pay tribute to the celebration of Italian and Hispanic Cultural Month.  Admission is free, but seating is limited.  To RSVP, please contact Library Program Coordinator Lisa Cohn at (973) 566-6200 or Orchestra President Kristine Massari at 973-444-0357, or write to bmomandolin@gmail.com
                    Photo By: John Meixner

 

Stanley Alexandrowicz at Bloomfield Cultural Center

September 18th, 2018
Price: $15 per person
Call the office to reserve your place – (973) 429-0960.
CONTACT DETAILS
Oakeside Bloomfield Cultural Center
(Music at the Mansion)
240 Belleville Avenue
Bloomfield, New Jersey 07003
Phone: (973) 429-0960
 

   Oakeside Bloomfield Cultural Center welcomes classical guitar virtuoso Stanley Alexandrowicz for an afternoon recital of Baroque, Romantic and Latin American Virtuoso Masterpieces.  (Light refreshments after the performance.)
 

   Internationally acclaimed  classical guitarist Stanley Alexandrowicz will present an afternoon recital devoted to Baroque, Romantic and Latin American Virtuoso Masterpieces for the classical guitar. Compositions by Italy’s Girolamo Frescobaldi, France’s Napoleon Coste,  and Vienna’s Johann Dubez will be featured on the first half of the recital. The second half will be centered around showpieces by the Latin American guitar’s greatest composers—Astor Piazzolla (Argentina), Hector Angulo (Cuba), and Manuel Ponce (Mexico)! Maestro Robert W. Butts—composer and conductor of the Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey—represents America with a newly-written Contemporary masterpiece!

Stanley Alexandrowicz, “Latin American Guitar Masterpieces” at 1867 Sanctuary

August 29th, 2018
Saturday September 8th @ 3:00 pm
1867 Sanctuary Arts and Culture Center
101 Scotch Road, Ewing, NJ 08628
For more information:
Tel: 609-392-6409 or E-mail: 1867sanctuary@preservationnj.org

 

Preservation New Jersey is pleased to welcome internationally acclaimed classical guitarist Stanley Alexandrowicz back to the 1867 Sanctuary for his program, Latin American Guitar Masterpieces, an evening of virtuoso guitar works centered around showpieces by the guitar’s greatest composers from Argentina, Cuba, and Mexico!

Starting with the beloved Aria con Variazioni detta “la Frescobalda” by Italy’s greatest composer of the Early Baroque—Girolamo Frescobaldi—his program next features masterworks by the 19th Century’s greatest composer-guitarists: France’s Napoleon Coste: La Source du Lyson (Fantasie), op. 47, and Vienna’s Johann Dubez: Six Viennese Waltzes for the 10-string Guitar. Primavera Porteña (Spring from “The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires” ) by Argentina’s master of the “Nuevo Tango” Astor Piazzolla begins the second (Latin American) half of the recital. Cuban composer Hector Angulo is represented by his Cantos Yoruba de Cuba—strikingly beautiful evocations drawn from mystical chants of Nigeria’s Yoruba religion. With American composer Maestro Robert W. Butts’ powerful Tombeau—In Memoriam Václav Kučera we experience the poignant tribute of one great composer honoring the memory of another. Manuel Ponce’s impassioned and fiery Sonatina Meridional concludes the recital with a kaleidoscope of moods, in what is perhaps the Mexican composer’s greatest work for the guitar.

 

“Soprano Extraordinaire” Dominika Zamara and Stanley Alexandrowicz at 1867 Sanctuary

May 19th, 2018
Wednesday May 23, @ 8:00 PM, 2018
1867 Sanctuary 
101 Scotch Road, Ewing, NJ 08628

Tel: 609-392-6409 or E-mail: 1867sanctuary@preservationnj.org

PROGRAM “Arias, Songs, and Solos for Voice & Guitar”
Internationally renowned artists Dominika Zamara (soprano) and Stanley Alexandrowicz (classical guitar) join forces to perform a recital of arias, songs, and solos for voice and classical guitar. Their program consists of famous operatic arias by Vincenzo Bellini, Antonín Dvořák, Georges Bizet; Arias by Mauro Giuliani—Italy’s leading guitar virtuoso of the early 19th century; Romantic-era songs (from their latest CD) by Croatia’s preeminent 19th Century composer-guitarist Ivan Padovec (1800 -1873) and solo guitar works by Napoleon Coste, Luigi Legnani, and Johann Dubez—the late Romantic Period’s greatest virtuoso composer-guitarists!

Romantic and Contemporary Guitar: Stanley Alexandrowicz at 1867 Sanctuary

April 24th, 2018

Sunday April 29, @ 7:30 PM, 2018
1867 Sanctuary
101 Scotch Road, Ewing, NJ 08628
Tel: 609-392-6409 or E-mail: 1867sanctuary@preservationnj.org

Virtuoso Romantic Showpieces & Contemporary Masterpieces!

Classical Guitarist Stanley Alexandrowicz returns to the 1867 Sanctuary on Sunday April 29, @ 7:30 PM, 2018 for a program of Virtuoso Romantic Showpieces by Napoleon Coste and Ivan Padovec, and Contemporary Masterpieces by Vácav Kučera, Prof. Kendall Kennison, and Maestro Robert W. Butts! As a special tribute, we will pay homage to the late Czech composer (and friend of tonight’s Artist) Maestro Vácav Kučera (1929-2017), with works by composer colleagues and friends! Featured will be Professor Kendall Kennison’s Guitar Sonata and Backanally, the NJ Premiere of Maestro Robert W. Butts’ Tombeau—In Memoriam Vácav Kučera, and we will conclude with our “centerpiece work” the profoundly moving Diario—Omaggio a Che Guevara by Vaclav Kucera himself! Also, back by popular demand, will be the world famous “Early Morning Suite” (for solo guitar) by Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey composer and conductor Maestro Robert W. Butts! (dedicated to tonight’s Artist).

Benjamin Verdery, guitar with the St. Lawrence String Quartet at 92Y

April 3rd, 2018

Thursday, May 10, 2018 at 7:30 PM
92Y – Kaufmann Concert Hall
More Information and Tickets: https://www.92y.org/event/benjamin-verdery

Hear 92Y Art of the Guitar series artistic director, Benjamin Verdery, in a fascinating program ranging from audience favorites by Bach and Boccherini to brand new works.

The dynamic, high-energy St. Lawrence String Quartet joins Verdery for a world premiere by Bryce Dessner (known to many as a guitarist with The National), whose music NPR praised as “gorgeous and full -hearted.” Also on the program: Villa-Lobos’s hauntingly beautiful Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, and NYC premieres of works by Verdery himself and Seymour Bernstein – recently the subject of Ethan Hawke’s loving documentary film, “Seymour: An Introduction.”

 

New York City Classical Guitar Society and GFA co-present Xavier Jara

March 28th, 2018

Thursday, April 5, at 8:00 PM
Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
57th Street and 7th Avenue

Tickets: http://bit.ly/jara- carnegie
More info: http://guitarsociety.nyc

Program:

DOWLAND Three Fantasies
BACH Concerto No. 1 in D Major, BWV 972 (arr. Perroy)
GOSS Labyrinth
JEREMY COLLINS Snehurka, Elegy
CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO Variations across the Centuries, Op. 71
MARTIN Quatre Pieces Breves
ALBENIZ Cordoba and Cataluna

Memories of April 7, 2002 Concert in Princeton

March 28th, 2018

George Schindler arranged this concert at the Unitarian University of Princeton. We had a previous concert on March 26, 1995 at the Madison Public Library. Shown here are: Chantal ?; George Schindler; Ming Chao; Roberta Wallace; Fred Dilzell; and Darren O’Neill.

2018 Philadelphia Classical Guitar Festival, April 7 & 8

March 23rd, 2018
Our annual festival will feature a vast array of events for guitarists of all ages including:

More Information: https://pcgs.wildapricot.org/Annual-Festival