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Welcome to the dance Anyone who has met me knows how much I love a good pun. This season is a good example of the sort of random play-on-word ideas that pop into my head. The concept of a dance-inspired week of chamber music is something that I considered for some time, I just needed a friend on Facebook to challenge me by posting “Hey, I just thought of a great title for a concert Dancing ‘Czech to Czech’! Can anyone devise a program for this title?” As I read that, I thought to myself, not only can I devise a program, I can devise a festival around that sort wordplay! The application of actual dance music this summer is less the point than the overall diversity and light-hearted nature of the theme. Ultimately, at some level, most classical music has some relation to dance. It is inherent in music’s nature stretching back to eras of court dancing and ballet. This summer’s concert will have few pieces that you can stand up and dance to for any real length of time, but the ethos of dance is always present.
For me the concept this summer opens the door for exploring the music of different countries, continents, and time periods. It also invokes an idea central of CVCM: the relationship between the artists on stage as well as between the artists and the audience. When I taught music appreciation courses and showed undergraduates a string quartet performing Haydn a question I would inevitably receive was “how do they play together without a drummer?” Once I pointed out the visual communication occurring within the ensemble through movement and gesture, those students gained a basic understanding of music and dance without me having to delve into internal subdivision. I am so thankful to all the new and returning artists who are joining us this season. Nathan Cook and Michelle Cheramy have been coming for multiple seasons now and Emily Osinski is joining us again after a short hiatus. Katie Wolfe has returned to us from down the road in Iowa City and in the other direction, Dan Friberg (WCF Symphony clarinet) traveled the length of I-35 from Minneapolis/St. Paul. We also have some new faces joining us this season including Mia Hagarty (CF native and UNI alumna). David Bjella comes to us from Florida but is a CR native and also survived a week working with me in Honduras a few years ago. We also welcome Zo Manfredi and Michelle Gasworth who bring their musicianship to our subscription concert series as well as unique outreach musical programming suited to working with our refugee and immigrant communities. Enjoy this season of music and thank you for being our dance partner in live performance. -Hunter Capoccioni Artistic Director
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2017 Season Performers David Bjella | cello: Native of Cedar Rapids; Professor of Cello, Stetson University; Co-Principal of the IRIS Chamber Orchestra; former member of the Inman Piano Trio; served as Visiting Associate Professor of Cello, Florida State University, Professor of Cello, University of Central Florida; taught in the Valade Master Teacher program at the Interlochen Center for the Arts; former faculty at the Orfeo Festival, the Rocky Mountain Summer Conservatory, the Bellingham Festival, the Quartz Mountain Festival, the Interlochen Music Center, the Orlando Chamber Soloists, the Bay Area Music Festival, Cuerdas de Enlace (Tegucigalpa, Honduras); former Principal Cellist of the Florida Symphony, Orlando Philharmonic, Southwest Florida Symphony and the Annapolis Symphony; member of the cello section in Cincinnati, Tampa (Associate Principal) as well as a substitute for the Baltimore Symphony. Julia Bullard | viola: Professor of Viola and Music Theory, Associate Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Northern Iowa; founding member of Trio 826 (www.trio826.com); past board member, Iowa Viola Society; past-president, Iowa String Teachers’ Association: Iowa String Teachers Association Studio Teacher of the Year (2011); Doctorate of Musical Arts, University of Georgia; Masters and Bachelor degrees, Temple University; taught University of Georgia's PreCollege Program; Toccoa Falls College (GA); Clarke Middle School (GA); Settlement Music School (Philadelphia); Temple University's Music Preparatory Division; and the Brenau (GA) Suzuki School. Hunter Capoccioni | double bass: Native of Waterloo; founder and director of Cedar Valley Chamber Music; Chamber Music Coordinator, Shepherd School of Music Rice University; substitute bassist, Houston Grand Opera and Houston Ballet Orchestras; former adjunct professor, University of Northern Iowa (2007-2014); Former orchestral work as Associate Principal Bass, Norwegian Opera Company (Oslo) (2005-2006), Associate Principal Bass, Norrlands Symphony Orchestra (2003-2005); Doctorate of Musical Arts, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (2014), Masters and Bachelor degrees, Rice University.
Michelle Cheramy | flute: Associate Professor of Music at Memorial University (Newfoundland); member Ora Ensemble; founding member, Exorior Duo and Trinitas Chamber Ensemble; Served as National Flute Association competition coordinator and committee chair; current member of the Flutist Quarterly editorial board; Winner, Canadian Concerto Competition, prizewinner, Montreal Symphony competition; winner, National Flute Association’s annual research competition (dissertation on the late work of André Jolivet); Degrees from the University of British Columbia (B.Mus.), Indiana University (M.M.) and Rice University (D.M.A.) Nathan Cook | cello: Associate Professor Chamber Music at Memorial University (Newfoundland); Founding member, Exorior Duo (www.exoriorduo.com) and Tr i n i t a s Chamber Ensemble (www.trinitasmusic.com); Artistic Director of the Hot Earth Ensemble (2008-2015); Degrees from Grinnell College (B.S.), Colgate University (M.A.T.), and Rice University (M.M./D.M.A.). Past principal, Houston Chamber Orchestra, and the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra; Previous teaching positions include Assistant Professor, Mercer University (GA). Daniel Friberg | clarinet : Minneapolis/St. Paul-based freelance teacher and performer; co-manager, Groth and Eble Music Companies (MN); Second /E-flat Clarinet, WCF Symphony; Past orchestral engagements with the Minnesota Orchestra, New World Symphony, and Duluth-Superior Symphony; Visiting Instructor of Music, Winona State University (2015). B.A. and M.M. from Yale University; D.M.A. degree, the University of Minnesota; Also studies at the Royal Ghent Conservatory of Music in Belgium (2009-2010).
2017 Season Performers Michelle Gasworth | viola: Based in Orange County, California; records for soundtracks of major motion pictures; member of Definiens ensemble; has appeared on Art of Élan, South Bay Chamber Music Society, Chamber Music | OC, Friends Restoration Concert Series and others; Director of Community Outreach at Chamber Music | OC; selected to be Artist-inResidence at the Grand Canyon National Park; Former principal viola appointments with the Riverside County Philharmonic, Waco Symphony Orchestra, Abilene Philharmonic, Lexington Bach Festival Orchestra; further ensemble work with Dallas Opera Orchestra and the Artosphere Festival Orchestra; faculty at the Orange County School of the Arts, the Birch Creek Music Performance Center; Idyllwild Arts Academy Orchestra, and Orange County Youth Symphony Orchestra; member of the Manfredi/Gasworth Duo; Co-Founder and Co-Director of David Adler Music and Arts Center's Chamber Music Camp; Bachelor and Master degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music. Mia Hagarty | violin: Cedar Falls native and graduate of the University of Northern Iowa; Adjunct Instructor of Violin, Del Mar College; Suzuki teacher and performer Corpus Christi, TX and surrounding areas; Core member, Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestra; Professional chamber music engagements with the Islander String Quartet, Del Mar Faculty Trio, South Texas Chamber Players, and Adagio String Quartet; Regular work with Bay Rock Orchestra, the Corpus Christi Ballet Orchestra, the Corpus Christi Cathedral Choirs, and the Corpus Christi Chorale. Zo Manfredi | violin: Teaching Artist of Violin and Viola at Drake University; Assistant Music Associate of Violin, Grinnell College; Section member, Quad Cities Symphony Orchestra, Des Moines Symphony, Abilene Philharmonic; guest concertmaster, ConcertIA (2015). Member, Durwood Ensemble, and the Manfredi/ Gasworth Duo; Co-directs the David Adler Center for the Arts Chamber Music Camp; (M.M.), Arizona State University; (B.M.), the University of Puget Sound; Further violin and viola studies in Vienna, Austria through the IES Music Program; (D.M.A.). the University of North Texas.
Emily Osinski | violin: Cedar Falls native; Houston based freelance violinist and teacher; currently pursuing Master of Music degree from the University of Houston; Bachelor of Music degree (2006), the Eastman School of Music; further education at the Indiana University Summer String Academy, Academy of Music at Ramapo College, Hot Springs Music Festival, and Music Academy of the West; Orchestral work with ensembles including Buffalo Philharmonic, Syracuse Symphony, Columbus Symphony (GA), Laredo Philharmonic, Corpus Christi Symphony, Victoria Symphony, and the Mid-Texas Symphony: Chamber Music engagements include the Marini String Ensemble, Quartsemble, Cedar Valley Chamber Music Festival, Hill Country Strings, Terra Vista Strings, and Divisi Strings. Katie Wolfe | violin: Associate Professor of Violin, University of Iowa; Founding member of the Matisse Piano Trio, (2004) and Wolfe/Nez Duo; Previously on music faculty Oklahoma State University, Bloomingdale School of Music and Hofstra University on Long Island as a member of the Hofstra String Quartet. Served as Associate Concertmaster of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic. Bachelor of Music, Indiana University and Masters of Music the Manhattan School of Music (MSM). Recorded for Centaur Records, Albany Records, Newport Classics, and Kleos Classics labels. Fulbright Lecture Award to teach and perform in Bolivia.
A Special Thanks to our 2017 CVCM Board of Directors Lucinda Lear, president
Anne Hoekstra, past-president
Bill Nolte, treasurer
E.J. Gallagher, secretary
Julia Bullard, house concert director
Jo Capoccioni, Melanie Drake, Janelle Ewing, Williamengo Frost, Stephen Gaies, Catherine Howland, Austin Jacobs, Janet Sanders, Tom Schilke, Michael Walter, William Witt
Concert Program Dancing “Czech to Czech” | Saturday July 15, 7:00pm, Charles City
Concertino (1925)
Erwin Schulhoff (1894 - 1942)
Andante con moto Furiant: Allegro furioso Andante Rondino: Allegro gaio Michelle Cheramy, flute — Julia Bullard, viola — Hunter Capoccioni, double bass
Quartet Movement in B-Flat Major (1915)
Josef Suk (1874 - 1935)
Emily Osinski, violin — Zo Manfredi, violin — Michelle Gasworth, viola — Nathan Cook, cello
|Intermission| Sextet in A Major, Op. 48 (1878)
Antonin Dvořák (1841 - 1904)
Allegro Moderato Dumka: Poco allegretto Furiant: Presto Finale: (Tema con variazioni) Allegretto grazioso, quasi andantino Zo Manfredi, Emily Osinski, violin — Julia Bullard, Michelle Gasworth, viola
David Bjella, Nathan Cook, cello
Thank you to our concert sponsors
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Concert Program Dancing “Czech to Czech” | Sunday, July 16, 3:00 pm, Cedar Falls
Concertino (1925)
Erwin Schulhoff (1894 - 1942)
Andante con moto Furiant: Allegro furioso Andante Rondino: Allegro gaio Michelle Cheramy, flute — Julia Bullard, viola — Hunter Capoccioni, double bass
Quartet Movement in B-Flat Major (1915)
Josef Suk (1874 - 1935)
Emily Osinski, violin — Zo Manfredi, violin — Michelle Gasworth, viola — Nathan Cook, cello
|Intermission| Sextet in A Major, Op. 48 (1878)
Antonin Dvořák (1841 - 1904)
Allegro Moderato Dumka: Poco allegretto Furiant: Presto Finale: (Tema con variazioni) Allegretto grazioso, quasi andantino Zo Manfredi, Emily Osinski, violin — Julia Bullard, Michelle Gasworth, viola
David Bjella, Nathan Cook, cello
Thank you to our concert sponsors
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Concert Program Dancing With the Tsars | Wednesday, July 19, 7:00 pm, Waterloo Pictures of an Inhibition (2008)
Aleksey Igudesman (b. 1973)
Michelle Cheramy, flute — Zo Manfredi, violin — Michelle Gasworth, viola — Nathan Cook, cello
String Quartet No. 2 in D Major (1881)
Aleksander Borodin (1833 - 1887)
Allegro Moderato Scherzo: Allegro Nocturne: Andante Finale: Andante Katie Wolfe, violin — Emily Osinski, violin — Julia Bullard, viola — David Bjella, cello
|Intermission| Arioso and Lensky’a Aria from ‘Eugene Onegin’ (1878)
Pytor Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)
Michelle Cheramy, flute — Emily Osinski, Katie Wolfe, violin — Julia Bullard, viola — David Bjella, cello — Hunter Capoccioni, double bass
String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor (1894)
Anton Arensky (1861 - 1906)
Moderato Variations sur la theme de P. Tchaikovsky: Moderato Finale: Andante Sostenuto
Zo Manfredi, violin — Michelle Gasworth, viola — Nathan Cook, cello — Hunter Capoccioni, double bass
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Concert Program “Dirty” Dancing| Saturday, July 22, 3:00pm, Marshalltown
Die Mozartisten, Op. 196 (1842)
Josef Lanner (1801 - 1843)
Emily Osinski, Zo Manfredi, Katie Wolfe, Mia Hagarty, Hannah Howland, Austin Jacobs, violin —
Julia Bullard, Michelle Gasworth, viola — Nathan Cook, David Bjella, cello — Hunter Capoccioni, double bass
The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires (1968) (arr. Varelas)
Astor Piazzolla (1921 - 1992)
Michelle Cheramy, flute — Katie Wolfe, Zo Manfredi, violin — Michelle Gasworth, viola — Nathan Cook, cello — Hunter Capoccioni, double bass
|Intermission| Last Round (1996)
I: Macho, cool, dangerous
II: Death of Angels
Osvaldo Golijov (b. 1960)
Emily Osinski, Zo Manfredi, violin
VS.
Katie Wolfe, Mia Hagarty , violin
Julia Bullard, viola VS. Michelle Gasworth, viola
Nathan Cook, cello VS. David Bjella, cello
and Hunter Capoccioni, bass
Gumboots (2008)
David Bruce (b. 1970)
Part I: Introduction
Part II: Five Dances Daniel Friberg, clarinet — Emily Osinski, Mia Hagarty, violin — Julia Bullard, viola —David Bjella, cello
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Concert Program “Dirty” Dancing| Sunday, July 23, 3:00 pm, Cedar Falls Die Mozartisten, Op. 196 (1842)
Josef Lanner (1801 - 1843)
Emily Osinski, Zo Manfredi, Katie Wolfe, Mia Hagarty, Hannah Howland, Austin Jacobs, violin
Julia Bullard, Michelle Gasworth, viola — Nathan Cook, David Bjella, cello — Hunter Capoccioni, double bass
Clarinet Quintet in B-flat Major, Op. 34 (1815) IV. Rondo: Allegro
Carl Maria von Weber (1786 - 1826)
Alexis Hahn, clarinet — Amy Dong, Kelly Kestner, violin — Mee-Wha Roche, viola — Willa Eacret, cello
Last Round (1996)
Osvaldo Golijov (b. 1960 ) Emily Osinski, Zo Manfredi, violin
VS.
Katie Wolfe, Mia Hagarty, violin
Julia Bullard, viola VS. Michelle Gasworth, viola
Nathan Cook, cello VS. David Bjella, cello
and Hunter Capoccioni, bass
|Intermission| Gumboots (2008)
David Bruce (b. 1970)
Part I: Introduction Part II : Five Dances
Daniel Friberg, clarinet — Emily Osinski, Mia Hagarty, violin — Julia Bullard, viola — David Bjella, cello
A special thank you to Wartburg College for the use of their bass clarinet for this performance
The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires (1968) (arr. Varelas)
Astor Piazzolla (1921 - 1992)
Primavera Porteñas
Verano Porteño
Otoño Porteño
Invierno Porteño
Michelle Cheramy, flute — Katie Wolfe, Zo Manfredi, violin — Michelle Gasworth, viola
Nathan Cook, cello — Hunter Capoccioni, double bass
Thank you to our concert sponsors
Program Notes Erwin Schulhoff
Born: 1894, Prague
Died: 1942, Wülzburg concentration camp
Other notable chamber works:
Five Pieces for String Quartet (1923)
String Quartet No. 1 (1924)
Though born in Bohemia, Schulhoff had a different upbringing from Dvořák, Janacek, and other more household composers from this region. Raised in upperclass Prague, Schulhoff mostly spoke German, moving to Vienna to begin his musical studies at a young age. In many ways, the Concertino is Schulhoff’s reconnection with his Czech heritage at a time when there was a real burgeoning rebirth of Czech culture following the county’s post-World War I reunification. The Concertino was inspired several factors including Schulhoff’s study of folk music, the works Leos Janacek, and the visits he made to the many festival celebrations occurring around the country. These cultural celebrations were equivalent to a modern day farmer’s market with a large marketplace alongside live music by folk ensembles. The four-movement Concertino is representative of Schulhoff’s polyglot musical style, referencing everything from religious chant and folk dancing, to jazz and modern harmonic ideas that occupied him throughout this period. Being both of Jewish heritage and an ardent supporter of communist philosophy, Schulhoff was arrested trying to flee Germany for Russia and executed by the Nazi’s in 1942.
Josef Suk
Born: 1874, Křečovice
Died: 1935, Benešov
Other notable chamber works:
Regrettably, Suk is more known today for being Dvorak’s step-son than as a firstrate compose and professional violinist. A founding member of the famous “Czech Quartet” (founded in 1892), Suk performed in nearly four thousand concerts with the group before retiring in 1933. This single-movement work was finally conceived by Suk as an alternate to his first string quartet composed some twenty years earlier in 1896. For reasons unclear, Suk was dissatisfied by the original last
movement of the work and thus composed a new one based on the same material. Meditation on Wenceslas Chorale (1914) Stylistic changes over twenty years and the more mature harmonic style of the older Suk don’t really mesh well with the original quartet, so when it is performed, it is generally performed on its own and holds up quite well as a fine and complex example of a dance fantasy. String Quartet No. 1 (1896)
Antonín Dvořák
Born: 1841, Nelahozeves
Died: 1904, Prague
Other notable chamber works:
String Quintet No. 3, Op. 97
String Quartet, Op. 96 “American”
both composed in 1893, Spillville
Dvorak’s string sextet is less-often performed compared to Brahms and Schoenberg’s contributions to the genre, but it is historically significant as Dvorak’s first work to be premiered outside Bohemia. Championed by none other than the pre-eminent violinist Joesph Joachim, the sextet’s combination of inner-harmony and joy (A major was Dvorak’s “happy” key) along with the work’s use of the Dumka and Furiant folk styles launched Dvorak into worldwide recognition in a short span of time. In his biography of Dvořák, John Clapham titled the chapter concerning the A Major String Sextet, “A Genius Emerges.” Just four years before this, Dvořák’s income from his compositions and as organist at St. Adalbert’s Church in Prague had been so meager that the city officials certified his poverty. The opening movement’s main theme comprises a sweet duet between first violin and first cello. A second idea emerges as a short-breathed motive of small leaps
and skipping rhythms initiated by the violin. The middle two movements are Dvorak’s first written use of Czech terms as movement indicators. So strongly do they impress their folk idioms upon the Sextet that one author notes, “The work has the effect of a brightly colored travel poster advertising Czechoslovakia.” The Dumka was a traditional Slavic (specifically Ukrainian) folk ballad of meditative character often describing heroic deeds. The Furiant is a Czech dance whose fiery character is indicated by its name. The Sextet's finale is a set of five variations on the theme given at the outset by the viola to which is appended a whirlwind conclusion to the piece.
Program Notes Aleksey Igudesman
Born: 1973, Leningrad, Russia
Other notable chamber works:
Take it to Eleven (2014)
String Quartet (2015)
Alexander Borodin
Born: 1883, St. Petersburg, Russia
Died: 1887, St. Petersburg, Russia
Other notable chamber works:
Piano Quintet in C Minor (1862)
String Sextet in D Minor (1860)
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Aleksey Igudesman may be best known as a Youtube sensation with collaborator, pianist Hyung-ki Joo. The Victor Borge of our era, their shows “A Little Nightmare Music”, “And Now Mozart” and “BIG Nightmare Music” have been watched on YouTube over 35 million times. This flute quartet is one of many “serious” compositions Igudesman has been commissioned to write. The title’s homage to Mussorgsky is superficial but quite ingenious as the work truly displays the idea of musical inhibition. From the outset Igudesman introduces several ideas, each in a distinctly different style, that are constantly trying to assert their role in the piece but are stopped short each time until, eventually, the themes overlap to a point that they become one unifying concept. Probably the most well-known work on this summer’s festival, Borodin composed the quartet in a rapid flourish of activity during a summer vacation (his career was actually as a physician and chemist). While the quartet was wellreceived during Borodin’s life, it managed to “cross-over” into the über-popular realm when at least two of its themes were used as part of the 1953 musical Kismet. The quartet maintains a lyrical, delicate sensibility that strongly influenced French composers (such as Debussy and Ravel). The slow movement Notturno, with its famous main theme, appears nearly wholesale in Kismet. With this work Borodin added an elegant new perfume to European chamber music while advancing the continuity and self-awareness of the quartet tradition. These short works come from music that Tchaikovsky wrote for Eugene Onegin, a piece he referred to as “lyric scenes” rather than as an opera. It was composed at the end of a tumultuous eight-month period that saw an end to his traumatic marriage as well as the composition of his Fourth Symphony. Onegin is based on
Born: 1840, Votkinsk, Russia
Died: 1893, St. Petersburg, Russia a Pushkin novel the explores themes of life, death, love, ennui, convention and Other notable chamber works:
String Quartet No. 1, Op. 11 (1871)
Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70 (1890)
passion. Both selections are based on songs sung by the protagonist, Lensky. The first is an Arioso where he professes his love to his fiancé Olga (spoiler alert… it doesn’t go well). the other aria is where Lensky reflects upon the happy days of his youth and contrasts those with his current predicament which, in this case, is a duel with Onegin. Their quarrel is over Onegin’s attentions to Olga, and it is the loss of Olga that Lensky most regrets, now caring little whether he lives or dies in the imminent duel.
Anton Arensky
Born: 1861, Novgorod, Russia
Died: 1906, Terijoki, Finland
Other notable chamber works:
Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 32 (1894)
Piano Quintet, Op. 51 (1900)
Tchaikovsky’s death devastated a generation of young Russian composers. Arensky, then a professor at the Moscow Conservatory, dedicated this quartet to Tchaikovsky’s legacy. Several things about this work make it unusual. First is Arensky’s unusual instrumentation made up of violin, viola, and two cellos (tonight with cello and double bass), which gives the work an unusually deep and dark sonority. The second is Arensky’s decision to honor his friend by creating a set of variations on a theme by Tchaikovsky in the middle movement. The theme comes from Sixteen Children’s Songs, Opus 54 known as “When Jesus Christ Was But a Little Child.” Arensky frames the set of variations with movements that both incorporate traditional Russian funeral music. The quartet opens with references to Russian orthodox chant, a motive which will reappear at the end of the second movement. The finale quotes a hymn entitled Slava! which was used by many other Russian composers in the 19th century and also by Beethoven who used this theme in the trio section of the third movement of his String Quartet in E Minor, Opus 59, No. 2.
Program Notes Josef Lanner
Born: 1801, Vienna
Died: 1843, Döbling
Other notable works:
Die Romantiker, Op. 167 (1841)
Die Schönbrunner, Op. 200 (1842)
Osvaldo Golijov
Born: 1960, Mar del Plata
Other notable chamber works:
Yiddishbbuk (1992)
The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind (1994)
David Bruce
Born: 1970, Connecticut
Other notable chamber works:
Dances for Oskar (2005)
Steampunk (2010)
Astor Piazzolla
Although not as well-known as the Strauss family, Lanner was one of the original pioneer "Waltz Kings" of Vienna. A violinist who was largely self-taught, Lanner began his career as a member of a small local Viennese dance orchestra, later forming a string quartet in order to branch out on his own. His quartet met with immediate success and, after a few years, increased in size to a small string orchestra which included Johann Strauss, Sr. serving as Lanner's deputy leader. The manuscript to Die Mozartisten bears the inscription, “Dedicated to the revered and immortal Mozart.” Interestingly, Lanner also appended a note that while these were waltzes, they were not for dancing. One of Lanner's most substantial works, it begins with a lengthy introduction and is followed by four waltzes and a coda. The first and fourth waltzes are based on a selection of themes from The Magic Flute while the middle two waltzes contain melodies in Don Giovanni. “ ‘Last Round’ is a title borrowed from a short story on boxing by Julio Cortázar, the metaphor for an imaginary chance for Piazzolla's spirit to fight one more time (he used to get into fistfights throughout his life). The piece is conceived as an idealized bandoneon. The first movement represents the act of a violent compression of the instrument and the second a final, seemingly endless opening sigh (it is actually a fantasy over the refrain of the song 'My Beloved Buenos Aires', composed by the legendary Carlos Gardel in the 1930's). But Last Round is also a sublimated tango dance. Two quartets confront each other, separated by the focal bass, with violins and violas standing up as in the traditional tango orchestras. The bows fly in the air as inverted legs in crisscrossed choreography, always attracting and repelling each other, always in danger of clashing, always avoiding it with the immutability that can only be acquired by transforming hot passion into pure pattern.” -notes by composer
As the composer himself describes it, this piece grew out of a visit to South Africa and its gold mines. “There is a paradox in music, and indeed all art - the fact that life-enriching art has been produced, even inspired by conditions of tragedy, brutality and oppression. Gumboot dancing bears this trait - it was born out of the brutal labor conditions in South Africa under Apartheid, in which black miners were chained together and wore gumboots (Wellington boots) while they worked in the flooded gold mines. The workers slapped their boots and chains as a form of communication, which was otherwise banned in the mine, and later developed into a form of dance. For me, gumboot dancing is a striking example of how something beautiful and life-enhancing can come out of something far more negative. Although there are some African music influences in the music, I don't see the piece as being specifically 'about' the gumboot dancers. If anything it could be seen as an abstract celebration of the rejuvenating power of dance, moving as it does from introspection through to celebration.” - notes by composer
In many ways, what Gershwin was to the first part of the 20th century, Astor was the the second. Both men took an art form more common to lateBorn: 1921, Mar del Plata Piazzolla night clubs and applied to it advanced classical composition techniques from their periods. For Piazzolla that meant a fascination with Stravinsky, Bartok, and Died: 1992, Buenos Aires time some of the avant-garde. Piazzolla considered himself a chamber musician and serious composer, and 25 years since his death, time is bearing him out to be a Other notable chamber works:
master of both. Among his most ambitious works is Las Quatro Estaciones Four for Tango, for string quartet (1989) Porteñas (“The Four Seasons”). Published originally for piano solo in 1968, it has numerous arrangements of Libertango since undergone numerous arrangements for combinations of winds, strings, and piano. Though it shares Vivaldi’s title, the four movements, beginning with Spring, and other works
are not specifically pictorial but are instead general evocations of the changing seasons in Piazzolla’s native Argentina.
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OPEN REHEARSALS JULY 18, 10:00 - 4:00, ID8 AND COR 220EAST, WATERLOO
CVCM SOLO/DUO NIGHT JULY 18, 7:30PM, LIMESTONE LOUNGE, WATERLOO (FUNDRAISER FOR BGCCV MUSIC PROGRAM)
DAVID BJELLA, CELLO JULY 21, 10:00AM,WESTERN HOME, WINDHAVEN
OSINSKI/BULLARD DUO JULY 21, 10:00AM, LANDMARK COMMONS
COMMUNITY CONCERT JULY 22, 3:00, ORPHEUM THEATER, MARSHALLTOWN
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Serving you since 1939 Groth Music is a family-owned fullservice music store located in Bloomington, MN. Groth stocks one of the country’s most comprehensive collections of classical sheet music, along with a full line of instruments, accessories, and much more.
Eble Music has been Iowa’s source for classical sheet music since 1951. The past owners of Eble retired in 2014 and sold the business to Groth Music. The entire inventory has been transferred to Bloomington, MN, where the Groth staff continues to fill Eble website and phone orders with all of the same care that you have come to expect from Eble over the years. We look forward to serving you! THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING YOUR MIDWESTERN INDEPENDENT MUSIC SHOP.
952-948-5281 FAX: 952-884-1134 EMAIL: music@grothmusic.com PHONE:
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grothmusic.com and eble.com Open M-Th 10-8, F 10-6, Sat 9-5:30, closed Sunday
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2017 -2018 CVCM House Concert Series Dr. Julia Bullard, director
A Special Afternoon House Concert with
Robert Chen Concertmaster, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Benjamin Loeb Pianist/Conductor
Sunday, September 17, 3:00pm tickets go on sale August 15
The Aspen String Trio House Concert Friday, October 13 tickets go on sale August 15