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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in ART we trust!
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of our founding patron
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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.
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