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Extractions: Award-winning pianist and Davis resident Lara Downes continues her Perspectives: Concerts in Context series with an 8:00 p.m. concert on Friday, January 21, 2005, in the Studio Theatre of the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts Perspectives series is Triad: The Schumanns and Brahms , features , op. 6, by Clara Schumann, Widmung by Robert Schumann and Franz Liszt, and , op. 37/12, by Robert and Clara Schumann, with guest artist David Newman , baritone. The final concert of the Triad series is Johannes: New Roads on Friday, April 15, in the Studio Theatre. Invitation to the Dance American Ballads Performance Today
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Extractions: Award-winning pianist and Davis resident Lara Downes presents her annual family concert on Sunday, June 12, 2005, in two performances (3 pm and 5 pm) of Sergei ProkofievÕs Peter and the Wolf , in the Studio Theatre of the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. DownesÕ family concert is a project of UC Davis ArtsBridge , the arts education and outreach program she directs that provides awards to qualified UC Davis students to teach the arts to local K-12 students in public schools. This performance of the solo piano version of Peter and the Wolf will feature sets, scenery, dance, and bilingual narration (English/Spanish) by students from WoodlandÕs Dingle, Freeman, Willow Spring, and Gibson Elementary Schools, and Douglass Middle School. Tickets for the June 12 concerts in the Studio Theatre ($10 for adults, $5 for students and children) are available online at mondaviarts.org , through the Mondavi Center Ticket Office (530-754-2787), and at the door. Accommodations for persons with disabilities are available upon request. Lara Downes has attracted attention as one of the most exciting and communicative young pianists of todayÕs generation, called Òa most delightful artist, with a unique blend of musicianship and showmanshipÓ by National Public Radio. Her intense musicality, brilliant virtuosity and electrifying personality consistently thrill audiences at the worldÕs leading concert venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Vienna Konzerthaus, and the Salle Gaveau.
Extractions: Law ... sgrockwell@ucdavis.edu MUSIC DANCE LITERATURE EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH UC Davis' pianist-in-residence, Lara Downes , can tell the stories behind some of the most famous music written for children by composers such as Debussy, Bartok, Schumann and Villalobos. Downes, a concert pianist who made her debut performance at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall in 1988, has studied the composers in their culture as well as their personal and musical history. Contact: Lara Downes, Music laradownes@hotmail.com UC Davis music professor Pablo Ortiz pvortiz@ucdavis.edu Theatre and Dance bjbolden@ucdavis.edu Poet and educator of UC Davis can talk about how to reach children's creative center through poetry. Winner of numerous national awards for his seasonal poems, Alarcón writes bilingual poems about the Hispanic American experience for children. His children's books include "Jitomatoes Risueñas" ("Laughing Tomatoes") and "From the Bellybutton of the Moon." A teacher of college Spanish composition, Alarcón also wrote a best-selling high-school textbook on Spanish for Spanish speakers. He gives poetry workshops to elementary-school children and their parents throughout California. Contact: Francisco X. Alarcón, (fluent in Spanish)
Extractions: The UC Davis Department of Music last week officially announced the lineup for its 2002-03 season, including its inaugural events in the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. Announcing the 44th season were music chair Ross Bauer and UC Davis Symphony Orchestra conductor Kern Holoman. "We’ve got a really great mix of home-grown talent and imported talent," Bauer said. "I’m not sure everyone realizes how impressive our home-grown talent is." He noted upcoming performances including those showcasing the work of university bands director Jonathan Elkus, choral director Jeffrey Thomas, pianist Lara Downes, the Empyrean Ensemble, the Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers, San Francisco violist Geraldine Walther and the Fridegg Trio of Germany. In addition, special fanfares have been commissioned to, early in the season, honor music patrons Barbara Jackson and the Mondavis. Concertgoers can look forward to hearing "a new warmth, unparalleled resonance, and richness all around," said Holoman. "It’s supposed to be the best acoustics anywhere, and so far there’s every reason to imagine that will be so." "Acoustics mean so much to the success of a concert," Bauer added. "So this is an important moment for all of us. We’ve wanted (a facility) like this for probably 50 years."
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Extractions: Click on each CD cover to go directly to the review *** QUICK AUDITIONS *** We start off with Guitars Galore! = Another thoughtful, unusual and exciting crossover album. The four guitarists come from different genres of music (Di Meola is one of the top jazz guitarists and Summers is a member of The Police), some use some nylon strings, some use steel and some of the them play electric guitars vs. Barrueco's classical acoustic guitar. Some of the 13 tracks originate with the three guest guitarists but others are by Copland, Nazareth, and Villa-Lobos (the last a delightful improvisation on an Etude by the Brazilian composer and titled "Wolfsville" - a backward translation of his name). The different styles mesh beautifully while retaining their individuality. What a kick to kick down the musical fences in this way! SOR: Five Short Pieces; Fantasie; Six Lessons; GIULIANI: Garyowen; 12 Waltzes; Blue Bells of Scotland - David Starobin, guitar - Bridge 9107: Virtuoso guitarist Starobin here presents on his own label a program of works from the two most famous names in guitar performance in the first part of the l9th century. Their efforts in both composition and performance laid the groundwork for the later flowering of the classical guitar under Segovia in the 20th century. Both classical and operatic music were influences on these works, as well as a need to please the tastes of the bourgeoisie with grand waltzes and variations on folk melodies such as the Blue Bells of Scotland. Starobin plays a guitar built in the style of an 1830s Viennese guitar. All the selections are deftly played and cleanly reproduced.
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Extractions: Click here for audio samples Add to Cart Buy now With her debut recording, pianist Lara Downes beckons you to the dance floor as she interprets works by 19th and 20th century masters, from Carl Maria Von Weber to Samuel Barber. This collection of solo pieces captures the spirit of the ballroom through the ages, from the sublime to the grotesque, all remarkably and passionately performed by one of today's brightest talents Lara Downes has attracted attention as one of the most exciting and communicative pianists of today's younger generation. She has been cited by critics for her breathtaking virtuosity and penetrating, sensitive accounts of classical and romantic repertoire. She has been hailed as an artist worthy of placement in the highest rank of classical performers. Since making noteworthy debuts at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Vienna Konzerthaus, and Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Ms. Downes performs regularly throughout Europe and the United States. Ms. Downes eclectic and engaging programs encompass both the standard repertoire and works by young composers such as Augusta Read Thomas and Stephen Paulus. Her recent projects include a Copland Centennial recital, a recently discovered piano concerto by Clara Schumann, and a four-part recital series entitled This American Century. She recently made the world premiere recording of On Gossamer Wings by legendary jazz composer Benny Golson for the Arkadia/Postcards label.
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Extractions: Sure, pianist Lara Downes plays all of that Beethoven, Mozart and Bach music in recitals, but now shes taking the sounds of young composers like Lowell Lieberman and Pablo Ortiz to the rock and jazz clubs. Speaking of jazz, singer Akiko Yano joins us to tell us what the jazz life is like for a young Japanese woman. We also take a listen to the new soundtracks that the Alloy Orchestra composed for the films of Buster Keaton.
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Extractions: And while the Camellia Symphony lost conductor Eugene Castillo, it wasted no time finding a new one in Allan Pollack, who teaches composition at the University of California, Berkeley, composes, plays the saxophone expertly and founded an orchestra in the redwoods and a music festival in Mendocino. And the new Folsom Symphony Orchestra, after one SRO concert last spring, has launched a four-concert season conducted by Michael Neumann. Despite the cancellation of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra's appearance during the Mondavi Center's upcoming season, super-sounding Jackson Hall will not be lonesome this season. It will play host to the St. Petersburg Philharmonic and "The Messiah" this fall, with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Kirov Orchestra, the China Philharmonic with pianist Lang Lang, pianist Murray Perahia and Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg with the Assad Brothers arriving in 2005. The Sacramento Symphony name has been revived by Zvonimir Hacko, who most recently conducted the Sacramento Chamber Orchestra and the Society of St. Cecilia.
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