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Newman and Otlman Guitar Duo Come to Stetson University
The centerpiece of the recital is Leo Brouwer s new guitar duet, El Libro de los Seres Imaginarios.by BWW News Desk
The Newman & Oltman Guitar Duo, praised by legendary Cuban composer Leo Brouwer as one of the great duos in the world, will perform a virtual recital of works by Brouwer, Manuel De Falla, Enrique Granados and Isaac Albeniz, on Friday, March 19 at 7:30 P.M. EST as a part of the Stetson University School of Music s Great Guitarists Extravaganza. This free live performance will be streamed on the Stetson University School of Music s Facebook page with a live artist discussion/Q&A immediately following.
Junior Bach Festival Honors Concert
An all-Bach live stream concert showcasing young musicians from Northern California. Selected through professionally adjudicated auditions, the event will feature gifted performers under age 21.
4 p.m. March 28.
Viewing available on the Old First Concerts YouTube channel. $20 suggested donation. 415-474-1608. oldfirstconcerts.org
The Calix String Quartet is scheduled to perform on March 21 from the Berkeley Piano Club as well as on March 25 at the S.F. Conservatory of Music. Photo: Berkeley Piano Club
Cal Performances at Home
Mitsuko Uchida
Recorded live from London’s Wigmore Hall for this Cal Performances at Home event, the pianist presents interpretations of Schubert in a recital dedicated to the composer’s piano works featuring “Impromptu” in A-flat Major, “Impromptu” in C minor and “Sonata” in G Major.
When is this title piece used in the play?
Paul Englishby: This track begins with a soft, chordal pattern, which is first heard as Walterâs house (a major character in the play) is revealed. Itâs a place of refuge, heartbreak, memory, and love. This is followed by a sequence which underscores a devastating roll call of victims of the HIV virus, described in music by tendrils of counterpoint signifying the terrifying, exponentially rising death count. The track ends with a benign, beautiful haunting, as Eric Glass returns to Walterâs house to be met by the ghosts of the young men who died there.
Cuba is the island that taught America how to dance. For much of the 20th century it provided the United States (and, by extension, the Western world) with every key dance craze: the mambo, the rumba, the cha-cha-cha, the charanga, the bugalu. When jazz moved into the concert halls it was the Afro-Cuban influence that kept bebop on the dancefloor. And, throughout the 1940s and â50s Havana was where American hedonists went to party.
But then came Fidel, and Che, and the 1959 revolution, and the Bay Of Pigs invasion, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. And that cultural dialogue between Cuba and the US came to a halt. Cuba carried on in isolation, besieged by US sanctions, no longer visited by jazz royalty, no longer the playground of American playboys and gangsters. Its most famous musicians â singer