William Patterson University Guitarfest 2018

April 19th, 2018 by bob No comments »

Saturday, April 28, 2018
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. CONCERT: William Paterson University Guitarists featuring faculty
members Gabriel Handy and Seth Himmelhoch and students of the WP guitar program
2:00-3:00 p.m. CONCERT: Riverside Guitar Duo (Matt Pidi and Matt Kaplan)
4:00-6:00 p.m. MASTER CLASS: Virginia Luque
8:00-9:30 p.m. CONCERT: Virginia Luque

William Paterson U. Guitarfest 2018
For information, contact the William
Paterson Music Department at
973.720.2315 or William
Paterson guitar faculty:
Professor Gabriel Handy,
646.382.1190 or Professor Seth
Himmelhoch, 201.928.1641
www.wpunj.edu/guitarfest

May Meeting

April 16th, 2018 by bob No comments »

These pieces were played at our May 20 meeting in Warren:

David Starbuck

  • Four Studies — Fernando Sor

Kevin Lutke

  • Diminished Returns — Kevin Lutke
  • Etude — “”
  • A New Day — “”

Anthony Campanella

  • Paris (dedicated to Mr. Delcamp) — Giorgio Signorelli
  • Market Square
  • Walking with Marcel

Gary Lee

  • Sonata No. 37 (Prelude, Allemande & Courante) — S. L. Weiss

Ray Butler

  • Ashokan Farewell — Jay Ungar, arr. Ray Butler

Jeffrey Wilt

  • Evocacion— Jose Luis Merlin
  • Habanera Oriental — Per-Olov Kindgren
  • La Paloma — Sebastian Yradier

Jeff Griesemer

  • Here, There, and Everywhere — Lennon/McCartney., arr. Jeff Griesemer
  • When I’m Sixty-Four — “”

Ming Chao

  • Minuet — Antonio Jose

Robert Ey

  • Hasapikos Horos — Trad. Greek, arr. Allan Alexander
  • Ajde Jano — Trad. Macedonian, arr. Allan Alexander

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!

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.”

 

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

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.

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

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.

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.

 

 

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