April 12 Programme

alexey steele presents
Classical Underground

Where ARTS meet series

Monday, April 12, 2010

PROGRAMME

we are thanking the Steinway Piano Gallery-West Hollywood
for most graciously providing us with the piano

Frank Campo - Fantasia Autunnale, Op. 82
Jonathon Grasse - Letters from Brazil
RJ, RJ (Rio de Janeiro)
BH, MG (Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais)

The Kravchak Morris Duo
Richard Kravchak - oboe/English horn
Scott Morris - guitar

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P. Vladigerov - Valse Romantique
G. Z. Cherkin - Sevdana
Hristoskov - Rustic Caprice
Moni Simeonov – violin
Pepi Pilibossian – piano

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Frederick Chopin - Nocturne op. 9 #1
3 Waltzes
Eduardo Delgado – piano

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Giuseppe Verdi - Dormiro sol nel manto mio regal from "Don Carlos"
Boris Martinovich – bass-baritone
Kanae Matsumoto – piano

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Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Trumpet Concerto E Major
II:Andante
III: Rondo (Allegro)
Rodion Shchedrin - A la Albeniz
arranged for trumpet and piano by Timofei Dokshitser
Courtney Jones – trumpet
Kanae Matsumoto – piano

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Four Shakespeare Songs by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
"What shall he have that kill'd the deer"
"O mistress mine"
"Take, o take those lips away"
"Who is Silvia?"
Timur Bekbosunov – tenor
Anastasia Nemirovich-Danchenko – piano

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Peter Schickele - Autumn Trio (2009)
Mosaic
Intermezzo
Tarantella (La Vache Qui Rit)
The Autumn Trio
Michele Zukovsky – clarinet
Armen Ksajikian – cello
Bryon Pezzone - piano

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Classical Underground Showcase

PETER ADAMS
painter

It would be exceptionally hard to find anyone around who did more for the Arts affecting so many great artists of our day than did Peter alone with his incredible wife Elaine in their unparalleled and self-less personal effort of making California Art Club into what it is today. Thank you, Peter from all of us!

Peter Adams - Alberich's Vision (Rhine Maidens) Oil 72" x 48"

Next month with Peter's passion for opera the CAC team is putting up the exhibitions at the LA's landmark Our Lady of The Angels Cathedral and two other venues to be part of LA's Ring Festival celebrating a full Ring Cycle production by our magnificent LA Opera.

Monday, April 12 Program and Performers and new PayPal button

The complete program will be posted on the website shortly (subject to change).
Our event is sold out!

We are excited to feature the following musicians on April 12:



Michelle Zukovsky, frequent soloist and principal clarinetist of the LA Philharmonic






Eduardo Delgado, CU favorite, renowned performer of romantic and Argentinian piano repertoire, Prof. at CSUF




Moni Simeonov, CU favorite, dynamic virtuoso of romantic Bulgarian violin, concertmaster of Reno Philharmonic.





Boris Martinovich, Croatian Bass-Baritone who has appeared in the major opera houses of the U.S. and Europe.





Scott Morris, classical guitarist, winner of numerous awards and competitions, Director of Guitar Studies at CSUDH.






Richard Kravchak, a woodwind soloist, chamber and orchestral musician around the world and Chair of Music Department at CSUDH.






Timur Bekbosunov, a unique and fascinating tenor, has performed at Disney Hall, Hollywood Bowl, Long Beach Opera




Courtney Jones, a bright new trumpet discovery from UCLA pursuing his Doctorate of Musical Arts in Trumpet Performance and Pedagogy at UCLA. Jones also conducts the UCLA Symphonic Band and recently soloed with the UCLA Marching Band.





Armen Ksajikian, Ksajikian has performed as principal or soloist with the Los Angeles Chamber, Opus Chamber and Hollywood Bowl orchestras, among others.







Kanae Matsumoto, is active as a soloist and a collaborative pianist, having performed many recital halls in Germany, Italy, Russia, Japan and the United States.






Pepi Pilibossian, an incredible collaborative pianist, our CU regular, performing rare authentic music.






Bryon A. Pezzone, as a soloist, Bryan has performed with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Pacific Symphony among others.



Anastasia Nemirovich-Danchenko, pianist, accompanist at various festivals in the US and France, regular performer at CU.

April 12 event invitation - piano provided by Steinway Piano Gallery West Hollywood

Dear friends,

There is so much exciting news to share!

On behalf of CU I am deeply grateful to Steinway Piano Gallery - West Hollywood for their most gracious and insightful support and participation in our join cause of insuring that classical music as an art form does not slip away at our unique and exciting cultural intersection of history.

We are excited beyond any ability to scream loud enough to host yet again at our upcoming CU one of the true marvels of mankind - the ultimate statement of real ART and refinement, the concert D.

Steinway - D Sound of Classical Underground!!!!!

I would also like to take this moment to think all of you - the brilliant musicians, the artists, the audience, the volunteers - for being part of our cause which is ART. I would also like to take this moment to thank our most gracious friend Richard Rand for his unwavering support of this joint cause; it is because of such support that ART was ever possible and will ever be possible as ART is eternal.

Chairs are first-come first-served - and please do not forget about the potluck - create your evening! Bring the food and drink that YOU would enjoy!

We are sold out!

The Future of Music in LA

By Laurence Vittes

When I heard that the brilliant young cellist Boris Andiranov was coming to town last December with news of his next Cello Circus (i.e., Moscow International Cello Festival 2010), I knew he would eventually wind up playing in Torrance at Alexey Steele's. Whether you're in from Moscow or traveling with the Vienna Philharmonic, if you want to find late night, apres concert, classical music pleasures in LA you're bound to show up at Alexey Steele's monthly crave, classical music's version of a rave.


Boris is a 30-something, slouching in jeans, sexy Russian dream who plays the great Romantic concertos, this season with the great Valerie Gergiev in Saint Petersburg. It was a fantastic evening. Women swooned when Boris played Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov. Everybody dropped what they were holding when Boris played two extended fantasies by the eccentric Italian genius Giovanni Sollima so dizzingly difficult and magnificently dramatic and fast that there was near frenzy after each. He followed with a performance of Paganini's glorious Moses Variations that made the audience laugh and cry.

MORE ABOUT THE FESTIVAL Featuring Mischa Maisky, Yuri Bashmet, David Geringas and Julian Rachlin, 3 world premieres by rock-opera legend Alexey Rybnikov, the first-ever CelloBACH concert and Roger Moore narrating Carnival of the Animals. Bi-annual Festival follows on success of 2008 Festival devoted to Rostropovich.

There's info about the Festival on Alexey's site as well as a link to my article about Classical Underground for Gramophone magazine. Here's a brief excerpt from my article:

"By day, a 7,500-foot studio in a middle-of-nowhere industrial park 22 miles southeast of Walt Disney Concert Hall and the fashionable artists' lofts of downtown Los Angeles is Alexey Steele's place of work, hung with sensuous nudes and enormous landscapes.

"Once a month Steele shoots out, rave-like, a last-minute e-mail invitation to his friends. He tells them who the players and the composers will be. He reminds them to bring chairs and food. He warns them that this time the music will start on time, although it never does.

"The bright, shining crowd of as many as 400 actors, painters, scientists, musicians, writers and models, most of them young and beautiful, were clearly enjoying their classical music evening out on the town. Eager listeners surrounded the musicians every side, hangers-on moved around the periphery for different views, and smokers who went outside to enjoy their sinful pleasures could still hear strains of the glorious music floating through the night air."

In order to get on Alexey's e-mail list, visit classicalunderground.com. You never know who's going to show up!

February 22 Programme

alexey steele presents

CLASSICAL UNDERGROUND
February 22, 2010
Where ARTS meet series

J.S. Bach. Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
i Allegro
ii Adagio
iii Allegro
Yuliya Barsky - piano

Mikael Oganesyan - piano

F. Schubert
Liebesbotschaft

Du Bist Die Ruh

Nachtstuck
Sam McElroy - baritone

Anastasia Nemirovich-Danchenko - piano

P. Vladigerov. Chant
Bulgarian Rhapsody Vardar
Moni Simeonov -violin

Pepi Pilibossian - piano

R. Schumann - From Symphonic Etudes op.13
Theme
The Five posthumous Variations
Finale

Eduardo Delgado - piano

INTERMISSION

Inaugurating CU Poetry Showcase
John Tottenham reading from The Inertia Variations

M. Ravel / M. Oganesyan - La Valse
Mikael Oganesyan - piano

P. Schoenfield - Cafe Music
i. Allegro con fuoco
ii. Andante moderato
iii. Presto
Yana Reznik - piano
Indira Rachmatulla - cello
Nigel Armstrong - violin

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CLASSICAL UNDERGROUND SHOWCASE
focusing on a classical art form of serious contemporary representational art

CU Painters: Jeremy Lipking, Tony Pro, Ignat Ignatov, Christopher Pugliese (finding refuge with us from the freeze of New York), Joseph Todorovitch (his debut with CU) and myself - will paint live one of our favorite CU musicians, Yana Reznik. The final stretch of this live session will overlap by about an hour with the time of your arrival till the beginning of the program, so you will have a rare glimpse at how painting is being done and how each one of us will catch our sense of Yana.

Feb 22 is sold out

Dear friends,

Thank you all for your reservations! We are sold out!

February 22 event invitation

Dear Friends,

As we travel together on the journey which is Classical Underground, there is one central thing that we believe makes it such a unique sensation - a rare intimate connection between different forms of classical expression. As each over-compartmentalized field of ART is going through some major transformation recently, together in a deeply interconnected state, the ARTS are truly the heart and soul of our times that pack some indispensable power. With this in mind, we think our next event will open a new territory in this enchanted land.

The fierce contingent of CU painters – Jeremy Lipking, Tony Pro, Christopher Pugliese (finding refuge with us from the freeze of New York), Joseph Todorovitch (his debut with CU) and myself - will paint live one of our favorite CU musicians, Yana Reznik. The final stretch of this live session will overlap by about an hour with the time of your arrival till the beginning of the program, so you will have a rare glimpse at how painting is being done and how each one of us will catch our sense of Yana.

clockwise: Tony Pro, Jeremy Lipking, Alexey Steele en plein air

If that was not enough, we are finally adding a dimension to CU we long hoped for – in a spirit of comrades- in-arms we are joining cultural forces with our great new friends at Forth Magazine to inaugurate our first poetic showcase! We are honored and pleased to have John Tottenham as part of our program, just wait till you hear his reading!

Of course, the mother lode of musical talent awaits us with Nigel Armstrong, Yuliya Barsky, Eduardo Delgado, Sam McElroy, Mikael Oganesyan, Pepi Pilibossian, Indira Rachmatulla, Yana Reznik, Moni Simeonov performing. Celebrate with us as always the undying, indestructible and unsuppressible spirit of ART!

As always to RSVP please use the Paypal button below - chairs are first-come first-served - and please do not forget about the potluck! The doors open at 7 p.m. to catch the live painting session before the music starts at 8 p.m.

We are sold out.