Season's Opening!
October Night
October Night
this coming Monday,
October 6th @ 8 p.m.
October 6th @ 8 p.m.
Music & Arts in the Studio
(and Potluck Party)
The thermometer may disagree, but the calendar says it is finally fall and time for the opening concert of the 7th season of Classical Underground. If you've ever found yourself saying, "You know, I love CU but they just don't have enough woodwinds"...well, this is your night!
First we have the glorious
sound of four saxophones together: the fabulous City of Angels Saxophone
Quartet returns to Classical Underground to perform two movements of
the lush Ravel String Quartet, and then for something completely different, Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody #2...which,
if you recall Tom & Jerry (or Cziffra if you're an especially
Classy Undergrounder), imagine what a hoot that will be on saxophones!
In addition to mind-blowing reed transcriptions, we also have a rare performance of the Poulenc Sonata for Two Clarinets, featuring our resident clarinet virtuosos Leo Chelyapov and Uriel Vanchestein.
There is no finer proponent of the piano works of the Argentinean composer Alberto Ginastera than our querido amigo, Eduardo Delgado. Last Sunday he blew the roof off the concert hall with his performance of "Danzas Criollas"
at his "farewell recital" (which thankfully is only a farewell to being
a professor at Fullerton, and not to performing or teaching!). We have
asked him to reprise that performance, as well as Haydn's lovely Variations in F minor.
Also no stranger to CU audiences, the fine cellist Evgeny Tonkha returns with pianist Anastasia Nemirovich-Danchenko to play a group of dances and elegies by Albeniz, Faure, William Squire, and David Popper, along with a work by contemporary LA composer Juan Colomer, "Realidades Disipadas."
As always - bring your spirits, food and drink for you and your friends to enjoy.
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We are most grateful to our supportive friends at
for graciously providing us with their incomparable instrument
Model D, CD-587.
Model D, CD-587.
It is an extreme pleasure to open our season with showcasing one of my favorite contemporary figurative artists - the sculptor Alicia Ponzio. Strong sculptors in many ways are even more rare than strong painters, and Alicia without any doubt possesses a rare strength of three dimensional mastery. Her heads and figures are imbued with a rare nowadays Form Sense and truly musical plasticity of movement.
If that was not enough, Alicia bravely tackles something
specifically important to my own understanding of what constitutes the
ultimate challenge and excitement in our ART form: a multi-figure
composition. As I saw Alicia's magnificent "Lingering Shadows" at
California Art Club's last Gold Medal Show, I was struck by the
seriousness and depth of all her visual decisions masterfully weaving in
space the three glorious figures. Force and Grace - what could ever be
better to experience.
Despite all conformist perils, there is some true ART being made within newly emerging post - contemporary cultural terrain!
Alicia Ponzio - The Lingering Shadows
In art we trust!
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