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February Night
this coming Monday,
February 16th @ 8 p.m.
February 16th @ 8 p.m.
Music & Arts in the Studio
(and Potluck Party)
In honor of the day after
the day after Valentine's Day, we have a hyper-romantic February
program featuring a double-dose of Brahms, a hefty serving of
Rachmaninoff, and some lovely transcriptions for voice and guitar.
With it's volcanic opening
and surging, irresistible themes, young Brahms' Piano Sonata #2 is a
touchstone of the romantic piano repertoire, and a perfect showpiece
for UCLA's resident piano prof Inna Faliks.
Almost 40 years later came the Brahms Clarinet Trio, which
he wrote after being so inspired by the playing of the virtuoso Richard
Mühlfield that he came out of "retirement" in 1891 to compose for and
perform with him. Clarinetist Benjamin Mitchell will be joined by pianist Brendan White and cellist Michael Kaufman (Mühlfeld Trio).
The talents of piano maestro Mikhail Korzhev are so vast that they
must be shared amongst USC, Cal State Fullerton and Chapman College.
He will make his long overdue CU debut with Rachmaninoff's Sonata #2.
Those who stuck around for the CU "after-party" last time around
were treated to the luscious sound of Tara Davison singing and
accompanying herself on classical guitar. Now she returns to perform
for everyone with Villa-Lobos' Cantilena from the Bachianas Brasleiras,
plus her own transcriptions of songs by the mid-nineteenth-century
mezzo/composer/salon queen Pauline Viardot.
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 - CD345.
Ignat
Ignatov is one of the most talented and dedicated artists of the newly
emerging American figurative realism generation. In this very specific
approach to ART it takes phenomenal effort to develop a phenomenal
talent. The vast effort required to polish such talent to a level of
serious artistic capability will not be necessarily supported by
existing markets, which tend to favor easily digestible "commercial"
fair. Certainly this enormous effort is not supported by the current
post-modernist establishment. Elite artists like Ignat are pursuing a
level of artistic perfection of which few are aware. This is why they
push and expand the boundaries of human perceptional capabilities. This
is why they make ART. Even the original modernists would be proud of
what those few do now.
Basing their effort on classical tradition, they are making the next evolutionary step in aesthetic and perceptional development. I call this next step Novorealism. Some people call the period we are all part of Post-Contemporary.
As evident in his figurative works' dedication to ever increasing artistic ability, it is just as important to note Ignat's drive to put his expanding visual powers in service of the cause he believes in deeply. An ardent dog lover, he creates deeply heartfelt, poignant and compelling images of dogs in need of rescue. Here is where heart, mind and hand come together to give another evidence of Humanity. Go, Iggy!
Basing their effort on classical tradition, they are making the next evolutionary step in aesthetic and perceptional development. I call this next step Novorealism. Some people call the period we are all part of Post-Contemporary.
As evident in his figurative works' dedication to ever increasing artistic ability, it is just as important to note Ignat's drive to put his expanding visual powers in service of the cause he believes in deeply. An ardent dog lover, he creates deeply heartfelt, poignant and compelling images of dogs in need of rescue. Here is where heart, mind and hand come together to give another evidence of Humanity. Go, Iggy!
Ignat Ignatov
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