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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
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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.
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.
******
We are most grateful to our supportive friends at
for graciously providing us with their incomparable instrument CD 587.
******
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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Thursday, February 2, 2017
Save the Date! February 13th Music & Art in the Studio!
Save the Date!
Monday, February 13th, 2017
Music and Art in the Studio
Look for the invitation next week, or check our website at that time.
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
SOLD OUT Dec 12th Holiday Event and Toy Drive
We welcome you to a Russian-themed holiday night at Classical
Underground, featuring a program of Russian favorites and the CU debuts
of some outstanding young Russian talents, as well as returning good
friends.
Cellist Alexander Buzlov is an exciting young cellist with an
international career that was burgeoning even before he was a
prizewinner at the most recent Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. He
will perform Rachmaninoff's Cello Sonata, featuring one of the
composer's most beautiful and memorable tunes in the 3rd movement, with
Anton Smirnoff on piano, and a few surprise solo pieces.
Azerbaijan-born and USC-bred soprano Liya Khaimova will sing songs of Rachmaninoff, accompanied by Daniel Linder on piano.
Pianist Vladimir Khomyakov will display two aspects of his
virtuosity with the heavenly clarity of the Bach/Siloti arrangement
Prelude in B minor and the grand inferno of Liszt's Dante Sonata.
Our own cello regular Evgenny Tonkha and Anton Smirnoff will
perform L.A. composer Juan Colomer's "The existential tourist."
Longtime CU friend Roberto Cani, distinguished concertmaster of the LA Opera, joins the program, preparing an extra treat for us with the phenomenal cellist Alexander Buzlov.
Longtime CU friend Roberto Cani, distinguished concertmaster of the LA Opera, joins the program, preparing an extra treat for us with the phenomenal cellist Alexander Buzlov.
And for a festive finale, Natasha Rubin-Marin and Marina Demina
will play piano 4-hand arrangements of selections from Tchaikovsky's
beloved Nutcracker Suite.
"Windy Afternoon, Convict Lake"
California occupies a special place within a resurgent realist
movement in American Art. One of the fortunate reasons
converging around Southland is its venerable Plein Air tradition. Giving
impulse to study the impact of color and light, it greatly expanded the
palette of California representational artists, refreshing and modernizing
the feel of their work. A uniquely Californian voice, shaped
by its plein air tradition is the artist Peter Adams.
His prolonged interest in mystical sensation delivered through
expressive use of color gives his works a thoroughly individual and
authentic presence, while making his landscapes in particular distinctly
personal.
Peter also dedicated almost two decades of his life to raising the
profile of the California Art Club, and as its president built it into one
of the leading organization dedicated to support of representational
art in the US.
We are very happy to showcase Peter's new work "Windy Afternoon,
Convict Lake" that is going to be exhibited at the Masters of The
American West Art Exhibition at The Autry Museum.
As
always - bring your spirits, food and drink for you and your friends to
enjoy and unwrapped toys for the children from the neighboring church.
******
We are most grateful to our supportive friends at
for graciously providing us with their incomparable instrument CD 213!
******
of our founding patron
RAND RESOURCES, LLC
in ART we trust!
*******
20795 Main St. Carson, Ca 90745
Doors open at 7 p.m. No assigned seats - first come-first served. Potluck. Dress warm. Entrance from the parking lot. Free parking.
Doors open at 7 p.m. No assigned seats - first come-first served. Potluck. Dress warm. Entrance from the parking lot. Free parking.
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Save the date: Deceber 12th our Holiday Event and Toy Drive!
Our December Night - Holiday Event and Toy Drive
Save the date!
Monday, December 12th, 2016
Look for the email invitation next week or check back on this website.
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