The theme for our July 5 meeting was Patriotic Songs. These pieces were played:

Rick Florio
• Two Venezuelan Waltzes — Antonio Lauro, arr. Alirio Diaz
1. Tatiana
2. Andreina
• Marching Thru Georgia — Henry Clay Work

Robert Ey
• I Vow to Thee, My Country (Thaxted) — Gustav Holst, arr. Robert Ey

Gad Berger
• Yankee Doodle — J.K. Mertz
• Polacca — “”

Ben London
• The Star Spangled Banner — Arr. Ben London
• Glory, Glory, Hallelujah — Arr. Ben London

Daniel Zaurov
• Your smile and your eyes — Anon. (soldier’s song)
• Moldovanska — Anon. (Moldovian dance)

Helen Shi-Yuen
• All of Me — Gerald Marks and Seymour Simons, arr. Yenne Lee
• Take Five — Paul Desmond, arr. Abigail James

Jeff Griesemer
• Sing Of One Who Walks Beside Us (American hymn) — Music by William Moore, Lyrics by
Ralph Wright, arr. Jeff Griesemer

Ming Chao
• Mirandote — Eduardo Martin
• America (from West Side Story) — Leonard Bernstein, arr. Jorge Morel

Stella Kosim
• Capricho Catalan — Isaac Albeniz
• Danza Espanola No 5 — E. Granados

Ming-Jui Liu
• Study No. 1 — Frederic Hand (b. 1947)
• Gran Vals — Francisco Tárrega (1852 – 1909)
• Minuet in G major, op. 11, No. 1 — Fernando Sor (1778 – 1839)

 These pieces were played at the May 17 meeting.

Daniel Zaurov

• Yesterday — Paul McCartney
• Love is Blue — Andre Pop

Robert Ey

• Wild Mountain Thyme — Trad., arr. Scott Tennant

Indur B. Mandhyan

• Melody in C Major — Indur B Mandhyan.

Rick Florio

• Allemande & Saraband from Cello Suite #5 BWV 1011 — J.S. Bach

Stella Kosim

• Variations on a Theme by Handel “The Harmonious Blacksmith” Opus 107 — Mauro Giuliani

Jeff Griesemer

• When I’m Sixty Four — Lennon/McCartney, arr. Jeff Griesemer.

Ming Chao

• Muneira from Suite Compostelana — Federico Mompou

Jeffrey Wilt

• If You Were Here — Per-Olov Kindgren
• Preludio de Adios — Alphonso Montes

Our next Zoom Meeting will be on Sunday, May 17, at 4:00 p.m.

These pieces were played at the May 3 meeting:

Helen Shi-Yuen

• Kleine Romanze — Luise Walker

Stella Kosim

• Les Adieux Opus 21 No.6 — Fernando Sor

Ming Chao

• Aria from Inventions for Guitar (Hommage to Bach) — Alexandre Tansman
• Um Amor de Valsa — Paulo Bellinati

Gad Berger

• Unruhe — Johan Kaspar Mertz

Jeff Griesemer

• The Ookpik Waltz — Frankie Rodgers, arr. Jeff Griesemer.

Rick Florio

• Prélude from Cello Suite #5 BWV 1011 — J.S. Bach

Our next Zoom Meeting will be on Sunday, May 3, at 4:00 p.m.

These pieces were played in the April 19 Zoom Meeting:

Valerie Nelson

• Divertimento, Movement 3 — Hans Gal
• Sarabande — Francis Poulenc

Daniel Zaurov

• O sole mio (my little sun) — traditional
• El Condor Pasa (flight of a condor) — Daniel Robles

Ken Kraus

• Lascia Ch’io Pianga (Aria from Rinaldo) — Handel
• Ricercare XVI — Francesco da Milano

Helen Shi-Yuen

• Tango — Francisco Tárrega

Ray Butler

• Fantasia X. — Alonso Mudarra
• Tango en Skai. — Roland Dyens

Parvathi Kumar

• Aquarelle, Mv II Valseanna — Sergio Assad
• Preludio (Serie Americana) — Hector Alaya

Ming Chao

• Madrugada — John Williams

Jeff Griesemer 

• Canción de Cuna — Leo Brouwer

Gad Berger

• Unruhu — Johan Kaspar Mertz

Jeffrey Wilt

• Adelita — Francisco Tarrega (arr. J. Wilt)
• Lagrima — Francisco Tarrega
• Evocacion — Jose Luis Merlin

Gary Lee

• 10,000 Reasons — Matt Redman and Jonas Myrin, arr. G. Lee
• Nuevos Estudios Sencillos No. 9, Omaggio a Szymanowski — Leo Brouwer

Music Angels for Coronavirus Patients

Carmine Demarco posted this message to the NJCGS FaceBook page:

CLASSICAL GUITARISTS:

   Your help, and hearts, are needed. A new unit has been set up at Englewood Hospital, for COVID-19 patients. It is a comfort/palliative care unit: they are moving patients there for whom there is nothing further the doctors and nurses there can do. Currently, this new unit is stark and bare … undecorated and lacking warmth. We have set up a new Facebook Page, “Music Angels for Coronavirus Patients”, to bring together and share FB Live music performances on that Page. A nurse in this new comfort care unit at Englewood Hospital will show the music performances to the patients on a tablet. (The unit is also in need of original art for the walls, if you have friends who paint or draw.)

I’m asking all of my Facebook musician friends who have been doing Facebook Live performances to please set your privacy preferences to “Public” for your performances, past and upcoming, so that your performances can be shared on the Page. It is https://www.facebook.com/Music-Angels-for-Coronavirus-Patients-103325721337648/.

   You can also share the videos yourself to that Page. Please just make sure to set your privacy preferences to “Public” for all such videos that you are willing to share. Also, please MESSAGE ME to let me know that you’ve gone “Live” so I know to look for it in case I’ve missed your performance. THANK YOU.

Online Events at Raritan River Music and Mannes

Michael Newman opened our April 5 meeting with some announcements about upcoming online guitar events we can participate in while safely maintaining social distancing from home:

These pieces were played at our second Zoom Meeting on April 5:

Rick Florio

• Prelude (for Lute BWV 999) — J.S. Bach
• Sarabande and Double (Violin sonata BWV 1002) — “”

Helen Shi-Yuen

• Sons de Carrilhões — João Pernambuco

Valerie Nelson

• Solitudine — L.O. Anzaghi
• Andante Grazioso — Fernando Carulli
• Valsa Sem Nome — Baden Powell de Aquino

Robert Ey

• April Come She Will — Paul Simon, arr. Jim Bosse

Ray Butler

• Here Comes the Sun — George Harrison, arr. Ray Butler

Ken Kraus

• Menuet from Third Cello Concerto — J.S. Bach
• Pavan #2 — Luis Milan

Ben London

• Farewell — Sergio Assad
• Suite Compostelana mvt. 2 “Coral,” — Frederico Mompou
• Cello Suite no.3: Sarabande —S. Bach

Jeff Griesemer

• The Girl With The Flaxen Hair — Claude Debussy, arr: Jeff Griesemer

Ming Chao

• Cuna and Cancion from Suite Compostelana — Federico Mompou

Gad Berger

• The Parting Glass – Trad. arr by Laura Snowden
• Milonga — Jorge Cardoso

Jeffrey Wilt

• Prelude #5 — Bryan Johanson
• Study, Op. 35, #8 — Fernando Sor
• Adios a Ocumare — Angel Maria Landaeta, arr. Antonio Lauro

Chris Freitag

• Preludio de Adios — Alfonso Montes
• Danza Brasiliera — Jorge Morel

Our Next Zoom Meeting will be on Sunday, April 19, at 4:00 p.m.

Our Online Meeting via Zoom on March 22 was enjoyed by all, and we plan to continue these meeting for the duration of the Covid 19 crisis. We had new attendees, and some who joined in only to listen. This is a good opportunity for people who have not been able to get to our in-person meetings to get involved.

These pieces were played:

Kenneth Kraus

• Gymnopedie #1 — Eric Satie
• Cello Suite Menuet — Bach

Thang Hoang

• La Catedral (2nd and 3rd movement) — Agustín Barrios Mangoré

Arjo GuhaMazumder

• Mazurca — Francisco Tárrega
• Gran Vals — “”

Helen Shi-Yuen

• Maria Luisa by Julio Sagreras

Rick Florio

• Vihuelas:

1. Fantasia (# 3) — Luis Milan
2. Gallarda — Alonso Mudarra
3. Soneto — Enriquez de Valderrábano
4. Pavana — Diego Pisador

Robert Ey

• Give Me Your Hand — Rory O’Cahan, arr. Glenn Weiser

Jeff Griesemer

• Slieve Russell — Traditional Irish jig, arr. Jeff Griesemer

Parvathi Kumar

• Aquarelle, Mv II Valseanna — Sergio Assad
• Torija — F. Moreno-Torroba

Gad Berger

• Milonga — Jorge Cardoso

Chris Freitag

• Lute pieces from the Italian Renaissance — Oscar Chilesotti.

Gary Lee

• Sonata No. 37 — Silvius Leopold Weiss, trans. G. Lee

1. – Prelude
2. – Allemande
3. – Courante

Jeffrey Wilt

• If You Were Here — Per Olov Kindgren
• Squares Suspended — Andrew York
• Soleares (From “Homage a Tarrega”) — Joaquin Turina

These pieces were played at the February 16 meeting at the Lindeblad School of Music in Pine Brook:

Evgeniy Pereski

• Selections from Leo Brouwer’s Estudios Sencillos

Thomas He

• Gran Vals. —. Francisco Tarrega

Kenneth Kraus

• Moderato — Fernado Sor
• Classical Gas — Mason Williams

The Hopewell Guitar Ensemble (Valerie Nelson, Rick Florio, & Robert Ey)

• Chorale — J.S. Bach
• Minuet — Joseph Haydn

Rick Florio and Valerie Nelson

• My Lord Willoughby’s Welcome Home — John Dowland
• Duet in G, Rondo & Minore — Fernando Carulli

Valerie Nelson

• Solitude — L.O. Anzaghi
• Andante Grazioso — Fernando Carulli
• Valsa sem Nome — by Baden Powell de Aquino

Rick Florio

• Etruscan Prelude #1 — Reginald Smith Brindle
• Burgalesa — Federico Moreno-Torroba

Robert Ey

• Sarabande — Anon. (17^th Century)
• Aria from Partita in A Minor — Johann Anton Logy

Kevin Lutke

• Gavotte 1 & 2 from Lute Suite BWV 995 — J.S. Bach )
• Variation 4 from Prelude & Variations— K. Lutke

Jim Tosone

• Imagine — John Lennon, arr. Soren Madsen
• And I Love Her — The Beatles, arr. Soren Madsen

Jeffrey Wilt

• Royal Plum Pudding (from Eight Discernments) — Andrew York
• Romance de los Pinos — F. Moreno Torroba
• Se Ela Perguntar — Dilermando Reis

Benjamin London

• Prelude #1 — Manuel Ponce
• Melancholy Galliard — John Dowland
• Minuet — Sylvius Weiss
• Elegy — Federico Moreno Torroba
• Pavane — Luis Milan

Gad Berger

• The Parting Glass — Trad., arr. Laura Snowden

Alex Valencia

• Invocación y Danza — Joaquín Rodrigo

These pieces were played at the January 19 meeting in Hopewell:

The Hopewell Guitar Ensemble (Valerie Nelson, Rick Florio, Jeff Griesemer, Robert Ey)

• Courante — Michael Praetorius
• Berceuse — Isaac Albeniz

The Castle Peacock Band (Irene Ey, soprano; Valerie Nelson, alto, autoharp; Robert Ey, tenor, Irish bouzouki)

• Liverpool Light — Bill Staines

Rick Florio and Valerie Nelson

• La Rossignol — Anon.
• Invention No. 4 — J.S. Bach

Rick Florio

• Mille Regretz — Luis Narvaez

Jeff Griesemer

• (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons — Deek Watson & Pat Best, arr. Jeff Griesemer

Helen Shi-Yuen

• Kleine Romanze — Luise Walker

Lenny McDonald

• Eight Easy Dances — Gaspar Sanz

Kenneth Kraus

• Minuet BWV 114 — Chistian Petzold
• El testament d’Amelia — Traditional Catalan, arr. Miguel Llobet
• Vals Venezolano — Jorge Cardoso

Gary Lee

• Canción del Emperador — Luys de Narváez
• Prelude to Cantata Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, BWV 106 — J.S. Bach, arr. B. Verdery

Benjamin London

• Preambulo — Manuel Ponce
• Ballet — “”
• Prelude — “”
• Danza Pomposa — Alexander Tansman

Jeffrey Wilt

• Royal Plum Pudding (from Eight Discernments) — Andrew York
• Romance de los Pinos — Moreno Torroba
• Se Ela Perguntar — Dilermando Reis

Gad Berger

• The Parting Glass —, arr. Laura Snowden

These pieces were played at the December 8 meeting in Short Hills:

Hugo Arango Correa

• Lágrima — Francisco Tárrega
• Sonata, K.32 — Domenico Scarlatti

Helen Shi

• Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer — Johnny Marks, arr. Yenne Lee
• Sons de Carrilhões — João Pernambuco

Ben Larkey

• You Can Close Your Eyes — James Taylor
• Still You Turn Me On — Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Lenny McDonald

• Nine Country Dances — Anon.

Robert Ey

• Sarabande — Anon. (17^th Century)

Rick Florio

• The Wexford Carol — Trad. Irish
• Simple Gifts — Trad., arr. Fred Hand
• Queen Elizabeth’s Galliard — J. Dowland

Ray Butler

• Three preludes — Henrique Annes
• Prelude No. 2 — Heitor Villa-Lobos

Chris Freitag

• Chaconne from the Violin Partita in D minor — J. S. Bach, arr. Chris Freitag

Jeffrey Wilt

• Silent Night – Franz Gruber, arr. Per-Olov Kindgren
• What Child is This Variations – Anonymous, arr. Francis Cutting
• Carol of the Bells – Mykola Leontovych, arr. Phillip Lester

Gary Lee

• El Noi de la Mare — Traditional, arr. M. Llobet
• Julia Florida — Agustin Barrios
• O Come O Come Emmanuel — Traditional, arr. D. and E. Niedt