Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Save the date: October 9th - Opening Night - 10th Season!
Opening Night - 10th Season!
Music & Art + potluck party
Save the date!
Monday, October 9th, 2017
Look for the email invitation next week,
or check back our website at that time
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Tuesday, May 30, 2017
CU June 5th - RSVP now for Season's Finale!
The end of the season always marks the happy return of our dear
friend Jura Margulis, who will play young Brahms' magnificent,
symphonic Brahms Piano Sonata #3 in F minor, Op. 5.
Then virtuoso violinist Robert Cani will perform late Brahms in
the form of his Violin Sonata #3 in D minor, Op. 108, with Mitsuko
Morikawa on piano.
Delayed from our last program, the ever-tantalizing tenor Timur
Bekbosunov and pianist Dzovig Markarian present Russian composer Sergei
Slonimisky's "Six Romances on Poems of Osip Mandelstam,"which Timur
sang to high acclaim in its U.S. premiere in Washington, DC last year.
And for a lighter dessert, the multi-gifted CU regular Georgi
Slavchev will play a couple of his latest piano compositions, "This We
Have Now" and "A Good Piano Day."
See you on Monday! As always - bring your spirits food and drink for you and your friends to enjoy. WE ARE SOLD OUT!
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STEINWAY PIANO DEBUT - a brand new CD 287!
STEINWAY PIANO DEBUT - a brand new CD 287!
We are most grateful to our supportive friends at
for graciously providing us with their incomparable instrument
We are grateful for a continuous support of our founding patronRAND RESOURCES, LLC
in ART we trust!
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20795 Main St. Carson, Ca 90745
Doors open at 7 p.m.
Doors open at 7 p.m.
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Save the date June 5th Season's Finale
Save the date!
Season's Finale!
Season's Finale!
Monday, June 5th, 2017
Look for the email invitation next week,
or check back our website at that time
in art we trust!
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Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Monday, April 24, 2017
Save the date - May 1st - our next CU night of music and art!
Music & Art in the Studio
Save the date!
Just a week away - an outstanding program!
Save the date!
Just a week away - an outstanding program!
Monday, May 1st, 2017
Look for the email invitation tomorrow,
or check back our website at that time
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
RSVP now for March 20th Music & Arts in the Studio
March Night!
In the midst of March Madness, we balance the CU bracket with both
Bruins and Trojans, as well as that basketball powerhouse, the Colburn
School.
UCLA piano professor and commanding performer Inna Faliks will
play Beethoven's last work for the piano, the concise, noble, and
exquisite Bagatelles Op. 126, plus the bravura Mephisto Waltz #1 of
Liszt.
Young Ukrainanian violinist Orest Smovzh, a student of Midori at
USC, makes his CU debut with Bach's Partita in D minor for solo violin.
Camille Avellano has been a vital part of the LA Philharmonic
string section since 1981 (and somehow during that stellar gig she also
found time to be a violin professor at UCLA). For her CU performance
of Stravinsky's Suite Italienne she is bringing a special friend,
pianist Liliana Cino, who in her off-keyboard time just happens to be
LA's Consul General of Peru! They will also treat us to Fritz
Kreisler's arrangement of "Danse Espagnole" from De Falla's La Vida
Breve.
Our Colburn representative, Russian pianist and CU regular Anton
Smirnov, will be joined by Ukrainian pianist Angelika Fuchs to tackle
the delightfully jazz-inflected Sinfonietta for Four Hands by
contemporary Russian composer Nikolai Kapustin.
And we invite you to please stick around for some late evening surprises!
Inna Faliks
Please RSVP via Paypal through our website by clicking on the button above.
Classical Underground Showcase:
Leonid Steele - Going "To The People" and the Inspiration for My Neighbor Series
Leonid Steele - Going "To The People" and the Inspiration for My Neighbor Series
""Gutsul's Yard" 1962, 41" x 55"
My father Leonid Steele was a great embodiment of Russia's
venerable cultural tradition of going "to the people." Like his cultural
forebears, the artists of the famed "peredvizhnik" movement, he
believed that the people from the far reaches of society, far away
villages and factories, are the best and most important material for
serious Art. He also believed that these very same people also are the
ones who need the exposure to Art the most. He believed the vitality and
necessity of Art shows itself in the clearest way in such context.
This
belief resulted in my dad's continuous journeys away from big cities
in his quest for true characters and subjects. This quest fueled his
remarkable oeuvre with humanistic representations of his era, and
became a foundation for his iconic masterpieces of epic multi-figure
paintings. In his travels throughout Ukraine, he produced the most
compelling and heartfelt depictions of true people from Western, Central
and Eastern regions, showing them as the same brotherly people despite
all the differences that were painfully lurking under the polished
surface of the Soviet Union even back then. Dad believed that through
affecting the people Art has a power to affect society, much as he
believed in the ability of our common humanity to bridge all cultural
and historic differences.
I grew up in the midst
of the highest stage in my Dad transforming his great material into his
most important works, and it left an indelible mark on me. I spent many
months at a time accompanying Dad on his trips to the farthest villages
as he would conceive, research and create his new works.
Dad's
ideas and example became the blueprint for my current Love My Neighbor
public art project in the City of Carson and for the works of My
Neighbor Series at its center.
You can learn more about the project at www.lovemyneighbor.us
"Sproose Grouse.
Boiler Riveting Worker: The Wood Grouce (Gluhar)" 1958 53" x 39"
"Friends"
1961, 52" x 35"
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 CD213!
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in ART we trust!
We are grateful for a continuous support
of our founding patron
RAND RESOURCES, LLC
*******
20795 Main St. Carson, Ca 90745
Doors open at 7 p.m. No assigned seats - first come-first served. Potluck. Entrance from the parking lot. Free parking.
Doors open at 7 p.m. No assigned seats - first come-first served. Potluck. Entrance from the parking lot. Free parking.
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
RSVP for February 13th - CU - Music and Arts in the Studio
February Night !
For our February 13 Valentine program:
Pianist Alexander Slobodyanik turns on the romantic charm with
Schumann's "Scenes from Childhood" plus a couple of Chopin Etudes.
Esteemed violinists Mark Kashper and Camille Avellano will pair up
for violin duos of Bela Bartok. We are always thrilled and grateful
when our LA Phil friends spend their night off playing for us!
The formidable bass-baritone Boris Martinovich will sing two Verdi arias: "O tu Palermo" from I Vespri Siciliani, and "Ella giammai m'amò" from Don Carlo, accompanied by Mary Au on piano.
CU favorites Evgeny Tonkha and Anton Smirnoff bring us Rachmaninoff's swooningly romantic Cello Sonata.
And here's something you don't hear every day: Carmen...on the saxophone! Sax virtuosa Chika Inoue will play Francois Borne's "Fantaisie brillante sur airs de "Carmen," with Mary Au, piano.
Camille Avellano & Mark Kashper Boris Martinovich
online reservations are now closed.
"Ricky of Carson" oil on linen 31"x 25"
In exceptional times
we'll make an exception to our tradition of showcasing the works of my
friends, and will showcase my recent "Love My Neighbor" public art
project in our City of Carson.
The project came out of my belief that in a society where the
faith in most of its institutions is severely undermined, there is a
vital need to find an idea in which we can all still have some credible
faith. Something we can all believe in despite all the differences
and severe polarization, well managed by profiteers of "divide and
conquer" doctrines hiding under any stripe.
"Mrs. O'Neal" sepia on Fabriano paper 30" x 22"
I found this powerful, uniting and credible idea in a testimonial affirmation that I formulated as "Love My Neighbor." Whoever we are, we are neighbors first. In this country or in the world. In the City of Carson, statistically the 5th most diverse in the nation, the neighbors just happen to be like the rest of the world. For the last nine years I have been working on the My Neighbor Series based on this principle.
What my Dad called "High Art" in my view stands today as a
vehemently anti-ideological counter-politics. It utilizes the power to
unite people on a human level. Practicing High Art today in this way
becomes social action.
In the last year I have been privileged to have the City of Carson
as my partner in this project through a grant from its Cultural Arts
Commission, with Wells Fargo Bank as the local exhibiting partner. At
two locations, the Carson Park Building and the Wells Fargo Town Center
Store, in one month approximately 40,000 Carson residents were exposed
to the "Love My Neighbor" message through my images of beloved and
inspiring neighbors.
I am working on the second leg of the project this year in this awesome collaboration.
You can learn more about the project at www.lovemyneighbor.us
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 CD 587.
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in ART we trust!
We are grateful for a continuous support
of our founding patron
RAND RESOURCES, LLC
*******
20795 Main St. Carson, Ca 90745
Doors open at 7 p.m. No assigned seats - first come-first served. Potluck. Entrance from the parking lot. Free parking.
Doors open at 7 p.m. No assigned seats - first come-first served. Potluck. Entrance from the parking lot. Free parking.
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