Welcome to the first concert of our SIXTH season!
The summer has flown by like Endeavor on a 747, and suddenly it is not only fall, not only October, but the start of Classical Underground's sixth season. Our heads are spinning but somehow a fine program has come together, with a distinctly eastern-European timbre.
The summer has flown by like Endeavor on a 747, and suddenly it is not only fall, not only October, but the start of Classical Underground's sixth season. Our heads are spinning but somehow a fine program has come together, with a distinctly eastern-European timbre.
Musica Vitale
Musica
Vitale is a choral group devoted to unjustly neglected a cappella
chamber music of the 19th and 20th centuries -- in our case, works by
Georgy Sviridov and Sergei Rachmaninoff. Something new to CU and sure
to be a glorious sound!
Rufus Choi
Hometown
pianist Rufus Choi's star has been rising since he won the first Jose
Iturbi International Competition. He makes his CU debut performing Haydn Variations and Ravel's La Valse, evoking the decadence of
turn-of-the-century Vienna.
Laszlo Mezo
Returning to CU, Hungarian cellist Laszlo Mezo will perform the solo cello sonata of his compatriot composer, Zoltan Kodaly.
Moni Simeonov Georgi Slavchev
Pepron Pilibossian Yoshika Misuda
Offering
more Ravel but of an entirely different color, CU faves Moni Simeonov
(violin) and Pepi Pilibosian (piano) will play his Hungarian-themed
Tzigane. Moni returns with pianist Georgi Slavchev and cellist Yoshika
Masuda to perform a few movements from Ravel's ravishing Piano Trio.
Ambroise Aubrun Anna Sarkisova
With
USC thus represented, we must offer some UCLA talent for balance! Also
making their CU debuts, violinist Ambroise Aubran and pianist Anna
Sarkisova will play an excerpt of Brahms' Sonata #3 (which, stretching
our eastern theme, debuted in Budapest with Brahms at the piano).
As always - bring your spirits, food and drink for you and your friends to enjoy. Please RSVP via PayPal above. If you have problems with PayPal - don't want - email us right away!
As always - bring your spirits, food and drink for you and your friends to enjoy. Please RSVP via PayPal above. If you have problems with PayPal - don't want - email us right away!
for graciously providing us with their incomparable instrument.
On October 1st we will have CD213 - their newest C&A piano to the group of concert pianos.
On October 1st we will have CD213 - their newest C&A piano to the group of concert pianos.
We
are proud to showcase “El Comico Divino”, a magnificent and important
work by a great friend, LA artist Tony Pro. This masterful painting
represents a mile-stone in Tony’s creative search, reconsiders the idea
of Beauty and transforming it into an engaging and forceful visual
statement.
It is enormously exhilarating to feel how LA is boiling with new ideas at the moment. With soul-searching questions about the future direction of the art world appearing almost daily from its various corners, our notorious LA gang -- in a resurging realism of our time which I call NOVOREALISM -- is making itself heard and felt with ever-rising force.
It is enormously exhilarating to feel how LA is boiling with new ideas at the moment. With soul-searching questions about the future direction of the art world appearing almost daily from its various corners, our notorious LA gang -- in a resurging realism of our time which I call NOVOREALISM -- is making itself heard and felt with ever-rising force.
Tony Pro "El Comoco Divino"
Over the summer,
the venerable American Artist Magazine published a big article on our
movement. My brothers-in-ART and ardent Undregrounders Jeremy Lipking,
Tony Pro and myself just had an exciting three-hour presentation of our
ideas at one of the year's most anticipated realist-artist's
gatherings, The Weekend With The Masters. The Representational Art
Conference held by California Lutheran University in just few weeks has
invited us to discuss the same topic.
It is also
exciting to see our East Coast brothers resolutely making Realism
grounded in tradition a language of choice in expressing our modern
thoughts, views and feelings. A perfect example is an "Empire"
exhibition of new works by New York artist and friend Martin Wittfooth
at the edgy, provocative and forward-looking Corey Helford Gallery in
Culver City.
"Envisioning the
familiar with the foreign, the paintings portray 'empire' as a dream in
mythical repetition. The past becomes a painterly vision of a global
psyche, lucid in theme, vibrant with tonality and color" - the gallery
describes Martin's work.
The show runs through October 6, so don't miss it!
In ART we trust!