1992-1993

 

Friday Evenings at Eight in the Recital Hall of Los Angeles Harbor College

[ September | October | November | December | January | February | March | April | May | June ]

October 2, 1992

Miwako Watanabe, violin; David Speltz, cello; Ayke Agus, piano

Violin Sonata No. 8 in G major, Op.30 No. 3 — Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1828)

Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 65 — Frédéric Chopin (1810 – 1849)

Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor, Op. 90, “Dumky” — Antonin Dvorák (1841 – 1904)

November 20, 1992 — Abramson Ensemble

Rochelle Abramson , Dale Breidenthal , violins; Simon Oswell, viola; Timothy Landauer , cello; Jack Cousin , bass

Suite Op. 3 (1891) for two violins, viola, cello, and bass — Leoš Janácek (1854 – 1928)

Duo for cello and bass — Gioacchino Rossini (1792 – 1868)

Passacaglia con variazioni (after Handel) for violin and viola — Johan Halvorsen (1864 – 1935)

Quintet in G major, Op. 77 — Antonin Dvorák (1841 – 1904)

December 11, 1992 – Mark Kashper and Friends String Ensemble

Mark Kashper , Camille Avellano , violins; Meredith Snow , viola; Dane Little, cello

Preludio from Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV1006 — Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)
Mark Kashper

Duet in D major (Hob. VI:DI) for violin and cello — Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809)
Mark Kashper, Dane Little

Duet in C major, WoO 27, for violin and viola — Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1828)
Mark Kashper, Meredith Snow

Prelude “Obsession” from Sonata, Op. 27, No. 2 (1924) — Eugene Ysaÿe (1858 – 1931)
Mark Kashper

Fifteen Selections from “44 Violin Duos” (1931) — Béla Bartók (1881 – 1945)
Mark Kashper, Camille Avellano

Quartet in G minor, Op. 27 (1878) — Edvard Grieg (1843 – 1907)

January 15, 1993 — Guitar Duo

Matthew Elgart, Peter Yates, guitars

Three Renaissance Duets

  1. Lesson — Anonymous
  2. Le Rossignol — Anonymous
  3. Echo — Francis Pilkington (d. 1638)

Cross-Currents (written for the duo) — Thomas Flaherty (1950 –  )

Five Pieces — Carl Nielsen (1865 – 1931)

Mouvements Perpétuelles — Francis Poulenc (1889 – 1963)

Django’s Dream — Django Reinhardt (1910 – 1953) / Debussy / Elgart

Two Pieces:

  1. New Work for prepared guitar — Matthew Elgart (1958 –  )
  2. Ping Pong — Peter Yates (1953 –  )

Spanish Suite — Soulima Stravinsky (1910 – 1994)

Zwölftonspiel — Josef Matthias Hauer (1883 –  )

Five Preludes, Op. 11 — Alexander Scriabin (1872 – 1915)

Tango (written for the duo) Theodore Norman (1912 –  )

Three Sonatas — Domenico Scarlatti (1685 – 1757)

February 12, 1993 — XTET

Daisietta Kim, soprano; Gary Woodward , flute; David Ocker, clarinet; Elizabeth Baker , Jennifer Woodward, violins; Roger Lebow, cello; Vicki Ray, piano; David Johnson, percussion

Petroushkates (1983) — Joan Tower
G. Woodward, Ocker, Baker, Lebow, Ray

La Vie en Rouge (1973) () — Edison Denisov
Kim, G. Woodward, Ocker, Baker, Lebow, Ray

Si (1991) — Ge Gan Ru
J. Woodward, Ocker, Ray

The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs (1942);; and Sunsmell — John Cage (1912 – 1992)
Kim, Ray, Johnson

The Seduction of Sapientia (1974) — David Rosenbloom
G. Woodward, Ocker, Baker, J. Woodward, Lebow, Ray, Johnson

March 5, 1993 — Music from Mt. Washington

Margaret Batjer, Connie Kupka, violins; Brian Dembow, Michael Nowak, violas; David Speltz, cello

String Quintet No. 3 in C major, K515 — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)

String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Op. 111 — Johannes Brahms ( 1833 – 1897)

April 9, 1993 — Sul Legno

Deborah Schwartz, percussion; Marcus Eley, clarinet

Four Medieval Dances — Anonymous

  1. Estampie à 2 (England, ca. 1250)
  2. Estampie Real à 1 (France, ca. 1350)
  3. Trotto (Italy, ca. 1400)
  4. Saltarello à 1 (Italy, ca. 1400)

Gran’ Piant’ Agli Occhi — Francesco Landini (1325 – 1397)

Reflections on a Labyrinth for solo marimba (1989) — Kevin Hunt

Roumanian Folk Dances — Béla Bartók (1881 – 1945) (arranged for clarinet and marimba by Deborah Schwartz)

Suite for clarinet and marimba (1985) — Matt Doran (written for Deborah Schwartz – Sul Legno)

Improvisation and Toccatina — Francis Chagrin (1905 – 1972)

Controverse for percussion and clarinet (1983) (West Coast Premiere) — Jacqueline Fontyn

April 18, 1993. Patrons’ Concert at St. Cross Episcopal Church, 3:30 p.m.

USC students coached by Alice Schoenfeld

Kevin Kumar, Yi-Huan Zhao, violins; Mario Miragliotta, viola; Amy Barston, cello

Quartet in D minor, Op. 76 No. 2, “Quinten” — Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809)

Quartet in D minor, D810, “Death and the Maiden” — Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828)

May 14, 1993 — Westwind Brass

James Posteraro, Rob Wilkins, trumpets; Barry Toombs, horn; Emory Emrich, trombone; Ross Kallen, tuba

Psalm 19: The Heavens Declare — Benedetto Marcello (1686 – 1739)

Three Madrigals

  1. Jubilate Deo — Gregor Aichinger (1564 – 1628)
  2. Crude Amarilla — Claudio Monteverdi (1567 – 1643)
  3. Revecy Venir du Printemps — Claude Le Jeune (1528 – 1600)

Fugue from Concerto Grosso Op. 3, No. 11 — Antonio Vivaldi (1678 – 1741) / Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)

Quintet No. 3 in D-flat major — Victor Ewald (1860 – 1935)

American Overture — Joseph Wilcox Jenkins

Fantastic Polka — Arthur Pryor
Emory Emrich, soloist

Four Movements for Brass Quintet — Ron Minor

Blue Rondo a la Turk — Dave Brubeck (1920 –  )

June 4, 1993 — An Evening of Jazz

Alan Broadbent, piano; Larry Koonse, guitar; Putter Smith, bass; Billy Mintz, drums