Classical Underground

Monday, June 20, 2011

Special! CU at the Levitt Pavilion of Pasadena - June 25th, Saturday

Classical Underground goes above the ground!

Special program at the Levitt Pavilion of Pasadena

June 25, Saturday at 8 p.m.

admission is FREE

bring your own food and your own chair!

85 E. Holly St., Pasadena, CA 91103 - the concert is in the Memorial Park

Program:

Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Two Trumpets in C Major

Courtney Jones - trumpet

Ilya Sergienko - trumpet

Mikael Oganes - piano

Alexander Scriabin: Etude Op. 8 No. 12 (Heroic)

Nikolai Rakow: Humoresque

Anton Rubenstein: Melody

Ilya Sergienko – trumpet

Mikael Oganes - piano

Sergei Rachmaninoff: “Oh, Cease thy Singing, maiden fair"

Sergei Rachmaninoff: " How fair this spot!"

Vincenzo Bellini: " Oh, quante volte!” from I Capuleti e i Montecchi

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: "The Snow Maiden"

Oxana Senina – soprano

Diane Ketchie - piano

Niccolo Paganini: Variations on a theme by Rossini

David Popper: Polonaise de concert

Laszlo Mezo – cello

Steven Vanhauwaert - piano

Witold Lutoslawski: Variations on theme by Paganini for piano and percussion transcription by M. Oganes and J. Astaire

Leonard Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from Westside Story transcription by M. Oganes and J. Astaire

Mikael Oganes – piano

John Astaire - percussion

More info about the Levitt Pavilion of Pasadena

http://www.levittpavilionpasadena.org/

Mission Statement

Our Founding principle is Clarity of Intent.

We feel THAT what is missing the most in today’s world. In great debate weather ART has a future in a commercialized world of ours, we say ART is the Future.

It has to be ART, though true and pure, to make it through. Gone is the tiring age of fake, pump and pretense. Gone are the murky waters. All else stripped – ART stands in all its naked Relevance.

We believe in ART. Not as just another way of making a living, but as the very Way of Life.

We are the Underground and we stand in a subversive opposition to all and every accepted tacitly way the commercially driven society treats ART. We consider ART being a form of ultimate subversion in a greed-glorifying world and we argue a singular importance of ART outside commercialism and corrupt institutionalism within the society in crisis.

ART shall bring back what bankers had stolen from the society – the common purpose being anything else other than militant, blatant greed.

We are Classical and we stand on the shoulders of combined labor and sacrifice of cultural giants humanity managed to produce despite all its shortfalls and who were able to surpass all constraints of time and fads of the moment. The essence of their timeless creations, which is pure and true ART, stands as final testimony to in-suppressible powers of human spirit bearing extreme relevance to our time.

We stand in firm belief in fresh vitality and visceral strength of Classical, Humanistic in nature, content, philosophy and worldview for our truly modern audiences and viewers.

We are there to support and to amplify the voice of anyone across disciplines who we think is instrumental in this process.

With the Clarity of Intent we will find new ways ART can sustain itself and expand in these troubled times as Artists - some of true Heroes of Society - shall be able to enjoy the fruits of their intense, hard labor and sacrifice which is a pure Labor of Love. To that end we all work and contribute in a collaborative spirit in name of ART and Friendship. We will do everything to share ART and spread the word, as ART is the ever-flaming torch in a society facing Storm.

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Monday, June 20, 2011

Special! CU at the Levitt Pavilion of Pasadena - June 25th, Saturday

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