Stanley Alexandrowicz on WPRB

April 5th, 2018 by bob No comments »

Join International Classical Guitar Virtuoso Stanley Alexandrowicz and Composer-Conductor Maestro Robert W. Butts of the BONJ when they join Princeton’s Premiere Classical Music Radio Host Marvin Rosen this Wednesday 11 April @ 10:00 AM on “Classical Discoveries” at WPRB 103.3 FM! They will discuss Stanley’s upcoming recital at the magnificent 1867 Sanctuary in Ewing NJ (29 April @ 7:30 PM) wherein he will perform Romantic Period Virtuoso Guitar Works, Maestro Butts’ world-famous “Early Morning Suite” and moreover will pay homage to the late Czech composer Maestro Vácav Kučera (1929-2017). They will speak about the NJ Premiere of Maestro Robert W. Butts’ Tombeau—In Memoriam Vácav Kučera, the concert’s “centerpiece work” the profoundly moving Diario—Omaggio a Che Guevara by Vácav Kučera, and the “working relationship” between today’s living composers and concert performers! Numerous sound clips of compositions by Vácav Kučera, Maestro Butts, Baltimore composer Prof. Kendall Kennison will be featured!

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

April 3rd, 2018 by bob No comments »

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.”

 

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

March 28th, 2018 by bob No comments »

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

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Memories of April 7, 2002 Concert in Princeton

March 28th, 2018 by bob No comments »

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.

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2018 Philadelphia Classical Guitar Festival, April 7 & 8

March 23rd, 2018 by bob No comments »
Our annual festival will feature a vast array of events for guitarists of all ages including:

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

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Philadelphia Classical Guitar Society Concert Ensemble

March 22nd, 2018 by bob No comments »

Please join us this Friday, 3/23, as The Philadelphia Classical Guitar Society Concert Ensemble, directed by Kathleen Mayes, will perform a free concert at the Unitarian Universalist Church on 401 N Kings Hwy in Cherry Hill, NJ @ 7pm.

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Preservation New Jersey presents Aaron Larget-Caplan in 1867 Sanctuary.

March 22nd, 2018 by bob 1 comment »

When: 8:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 18
Where: 1867 Sanctuary at Ewing, 101 Scotch Road, Ewing, NJ
Info: http://www.1867sanctuary.org/event/bach-to-today-aaron-larget-caplan-classical-guitar/
Tickets can be purchased online or reserved at the box office for payment by cash, check or credit card by calling 609-392-6409 or emailing: 1867sanctuary@preservationnj.org

Bach to Today – Music from Japan, India, Europe, Russia, USA, by J.S. Bach, Modest Mussorgsky, John Cage, Vineet Shende and Keigo Fujii. Featuring New Jersey premieres of Shende, and Aaron’s arrangements of Bach and Cage.

 

 

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April Meeting

March 19th, 2018 by bob No comments »

These pieces were played at the April 15 meeting in Wayne:

Francis Braunlich (tenor recorder & tenor whistle) & Robert Ey (Irish bouzouki)

  • Miss McLeod’s Reel
  • Port Sgian
  • Portsmouth
  • Irish Lamentation
  • The Butterfly

Irene Ey (soprano) & Robert Ey (Irish bouzouki)

  • A Cowboy’s Hard Times — Bill Staines

David Starbuck

  • Four Studies — Fernando Sor

Anthony Campanella

  • Dininha
  • Black Orpheus — Luis Bonfa
  • Love is the Sweetest Thing — Ray Noble

 Kevin Lutke

  • Suite for Guitar — Kevin Lutke

Jim Tosone

  • Blackbird — Lennon/McCartney, arr. Soren Madsen
  • Here, There, and Everywhere — “

Jeff Griesemer

  • Slieve Russell/Port Skeain — Trad., arr. Jeff Griesemer
  • Manha de Carnival — Luis Bonfa, arr. Jeff Griesemer

Jeffrey Wilt

  • Adelita — Tarrega
  • Lagrima — “
  • If You Were Here — Per-Olov Kindgren

Gary Lee

  • The Banks of Doon — Robert Burns
  • Choro No. 2 — Armando Neves
  • Cancion del Emperador — Luys de Narvaez

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New York Classical Guitar Society Presents Frank Wallace and Nancy Knowles

March 19th, 2018 by bob No comments »

Guitarist/composer Frank Wallace and mezzo-soprano/poet Nancy Knowles are an acclaimed duo pioneering their own outstanding body of original contemporary art song with classical guitar. Touring throughout North and South America and Europe since 1979, they have numerous recordings on the Gyre label.

Tuesday, April 24, 2018, at 7:30 PM
Diller-Quaile School of Music, 24 East 95th Street, New York City

Program:
Music of Mertz, Tárrega, Sagreras, Villa-Lobos, Rodrigo, and Wallace

Ticket information

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Letter from Tom Silver

March 19th, 2018 by bob 1 comment »
Hi Guys,
 
This may come as a shocker but I’m suspending all of my guitar activities, probably for at least the next several years.  No more recordings or gigs during that time, and in fact, probably little or no practice.  All of my life I’ve only been able to focus on one big thing (to me) at a time, whether it was business, finance, or music.  Never been able to compartmentalize.  The reality is that after retiring 12 years ago and doing almost nothing but guitar all day every day for the last 10 years, I’m burned out.  Daily practice became something I wasn’t looking forward to anymore, but more of a chore. That’s not good, so I need to give it a rest.
 
But the coup de grace is a new focus – Japan and Japanese woodblock prints.  Starting last winter I became interested in these subjects and basically turned my website over to them in terms of everything new I wrote for the site on “Tom’s Take”.  After my articles amounted to 10 – 12,000 words I kind of decided to develop them into a full-fledged book, with illustrations from my own print collection.  Whether this ever goes to completion I don’t know, but I’m acting on that assumption.  Talk is cheap before the hard work begins!
 
What’s so great about this is that I come to the subject at ground zero – before this year I knew almost nothing about Japan or their prints.  So it’s the steepest possible learning curve, but endless material to work with. Japan is a fascinating culture going back thousands of years, but my focus will start 400 years ago, which happens to be an important dividing line in Japanese history.  I’m completely into it on a daily basis, so there’s no room for another obsession.  There’s a ton of reading to be done but I’m doing it slowly and building my knowledge base from the ground up.

I wish you all the best, and will stay in touch.  Hope you will do the same and keep me on your mailing lists.

 

Tom

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