Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
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November Night!
Special thanks to our unwavering founding patron
Rand Resources, LLC.
Nadia Shpachenko
Daniel Piknham "Stillness. Studio Version" 36" x 30" oil on canvas
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Acclaimed contemporary pianist and multiple-Grammy nominee Nadia
Shpachenko-Gottesman returns to CU with the Piano Sonata #6 of Yuri
Ishchenko, a key figure of contemporary Ukrainian music. Plus a curious
gem by Tchaikovsky contemporary Antonin Arensky: his own transcription
of his cantata, The Fountain of Bakhchisaray.
Guitarist and composer Donovan Butez will play a selection of
his own works, joined by fellow guitarist Bryan Fasola,
violinst Mann-Wen Lo, and Shaul Kofler on cello.
Our
wonderful cellist Evgeny Tonkha and the brilliant pianist Alex
Slobodyanik get together for Romances of Schubert and Rachmaninoff, and
guitarist Omar Torrez joins Evgeny in an arrangement of Schubert's
Arpegione Sonata.
Virtuoso clarinetist James Hodges and pianist Hee Jung Ju will
play an arrangement of Sarasate's ever-popular Carmen Fantasy, based on
themes from the Bizet opera.
Nadia Shpachenko
CLASSICAL UNDERGROUND SHOWCASE:
It is a distinct pleasure to showcase a long time close friend,
stalwart Classical Undergrounder, and very influential contemporary
representational California school painter Daniel W. Pinkham, a.k.a "The
Big Pink".
Dan's aesthetic influence and reach have few equals. A
determined pioneer of the California plein-air revival in the 70s-80s,
he was a star student of an important Ukrainian painter who resided in
California after WWII, Sergei Bongart. The deep connection to the Kiev
school of painting -- where I was born and where my Dad spent the most
significant portion of his career -- was among many things that created
a very special connection between Dan and my Dad and me. That, and of
course his famous/infamous storytelling!
The
painterly beliefs that Dan inherited from Sergei and deftly developed
are specific and effective. Sophisticated color harmonization and
balancing that comes out of a narrow tonal range replacing more common
tonal contrasting, all coupled with simplified, efficient and primal
shaping of main color masses. This core approach that stands apart from often seen artificial gimmicking, results in Dan's unmistakable and
authentically personal style of painting.
To achieve
this goal, Dan practices the very heart and soul of the plein-air
process. He rapidly captures the essence of what he is looking for on
location, choosing and extracting what is of most importance to him --
all the tonal, coloristic and compositional qualities that lie firmly
outside of photo-technological capabilities. He then brings those
visual notations of his in-the-moment sensory-cognitive process to the
studio, where they are examined, and the ones presenting the greatest
opportunities and aesthetic interest are further developed in larger
sizes.
In our showcase, we are presenting examples
of Dan's field studies, as well as a comparison of how one of them is
developed into a final work of singular artistic importance.
Go, Dan, go!
As always - bring your spirits, food and drink for you and your friends to enjoy.
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. 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.
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!
*******
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
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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.
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