Thursday, June 22, 2017

Edendale Up Close Concerts: July 1, 2017

EDENDALE ENSEMBLE featuring Clarinetist JAMES SULLIVAN
at the
EDENDALE UP CLOSE Concert Series
at the Edendale Branch Library
in ECHO PARK

COMMUNITY CONCERTS
at the Edendale Branch Library (LAPL)
2011 W. Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90026
info (213) 207-3000
FREE ADMISSION
Concert in the Community Room
Free parking in the library lot (enter lot from Alvarado).

Saturday, JULY 1, 2017
Time: Noon to 1 pm. 

Edendale Ensemble/JULY Clarinet Festival Concert #1
String quartets by W.A. MOZART & SERGIO BARER;
JOHN SCOTT Clarinet Quintet 
with James Sullivan -clarinet
Jacqueline Suzuki - violin
Adriana Zoppo - violin
Lynn Grants - viola
Pamela de Almeida - cello

 Program: 
 W.A. MOZART   Divertimento in B flat Major, K. 137
Andante
Allegro di molto
Allegro assai
SERGIO BARER  String Quartet, Op. 13   (Premiere)
Allegro: The False Idea
Andante: Classical, Baroque and a Little Bit Modern
Andante: Ethereal
Allegro: Rhythmia
JOHN SCOTT  Clarinet Quintet  (U.S. Premiere)
Allegro Vivace
Allegretto
Andante
Moderato

 Program notes:
 
The Divertimento, K. 137  was written in 1772 when Mozart was only fifteen or sixteen. He was in the employment of the Archbishop of Salzburg and had just returned from an extended journey to Italy with his father. Much of his musical training as a composer took place on this and other travels where he met composers like J. C. Bach in London and studied counterpoint with Giovanni Battista Martini in Bologna. We can hear some of the Italian influence in the limpidity and charming melodies of this divertimento. This and its two companion pieces are often called Salzburg Symphonies.  A divertimento is an informal piece of light music. Like the two others from his youthful period, Mozart's Divertimento in B-flat provided him with the only opportunity to write string chamber music in Salzburg. His father Leopold unsuccessfully tried to get the three works published as quartets. Unlike the other two, this divertimento begins leisurely. Yet beneath its graceful measures, tension builds for the exuberant second movement, with its wealth of thematic development. Most divertimenti from this period include minuets, yet this does not. No matter. The final movement generously provides us with a genial dance-like theme.
Notes from composer  Sergio Barer:
My first string quartet is composed of four movements, each one being its own little experiment. The first movement is called a False Idea. We have a theme that comes in at the very beginning, with no introduction. However, as we start repeating the melody, a “false idea”, which is a 3 note motive enters the composition and starts taking over, entering the lines of the four instruments, creating dissonance. Then the piece goes into an apathetic lull until “the right idea” comes in, which is the three note motive inverted. This new motive starts then expelling the false idea, creating a whole new melody that is triumphant and beautiful.
The second movement is called Classical, Baroque and a Little Bit Modern and it is a homage to slow movements of the string quartets of the past, with a little twist here and there that makes it more modern. This movement leads to the third movement that is called “Ethereal” where I create an atmosphere of very high pitches in evolving harmonies  which are traversed by a melody.
The fourth movement is called “Rhythmia” because rhythm is its most important element. Each instrument first states its own rhythm on one note, forming one chord for the first section of the piece. Then, each rhythm acquires, in turn, different pitches, creating a melody with its own rhythm. So here we have rhythms which give birth to melodies, therefore the “Rhythmia”.
 John Scott is an English composer and music conductor. Scott has collaborated with well-known directors and producers, including Mark Damon, Richard Donner, Charlton Heston, Mike Hodges, Hugh Hudson, Norman Jewison, Irvin Kershner, Daniel Petrie, Roger Spottiswoode, and Norman J. Warren, among others.
Scott was born in Bishopston, Bristol, England.[2] His father, a musician in the Bristol Police Band, gave him his first music lessons. At the age of 14, he enrolled in the British Army (in the Royal Artillery Band, Woolwich) as a Boy Musician in order to continue his musical studies of the clarinet, harp and saxophone.
Later, Scott toured with some of the best-known British bands of the era. He was hired by EMI to arrange and conduct some of its most popular artists and, during this time, worked with Beatles producer George Martin (playing flute in the band's 1965 recording "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away").[3] Scott also recorded such artists as Tom Jones, Cilla Black, and The Hollies. As a musician, he played with The Julian Bream Consort, John Dankworth, Cleo Laine, Yehudi Menuhin, Nelson Riddle and Ravi Shankar.
Credited as Johnny Scott, and playing flute, he led a jazz quintet, quartet and trio during the 1960s. He played for Henry Mancini and was principal saxophonist in John Barry's soundtrack to the James Bond film Goldfinger (1964).
Since the 1960s, Scott has composed for more than 100 film and television productions. Some of Scott's most praised and recognized scores are Antony and Cleopatra (1972), England Made Me (1973), North Dallas Forty (1979), The Final Countdown (1980), Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) and The Shooting Party (1985). His TV work includes the themes to the BBC current affairs programs Nationwide and Midweek, incidental music for the ITV series Rosemary and Thyme, and documentaries by French explorer Jacques Cousteau.
Scott is also active as a classical composer (having written a symphony, a ballet, four string quartets and a guitar concerto) and as a conductor. ] Orchestras that he has conducted include the London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Munich Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Budapest Opera Orchestra, Lubliana Radio Orchestra and Prague Philharmonic.
Interview of John Scott by Jon Burlingame:
http://www.jonburlingame.com/event/career-interview-composer-john-scott/

 The Edendale Library Friends Society will provide refreshments following the concert. 

Future concerts in this free series at the Edendale Branch Library: 
(all concerts are on Saturdays at Noon-1pm)

 JULY 29, 2017 Edendale Ensemble/JULY Clarinet Festival Concert #2
Duos & Trios  for clarinet, violin, cello:
BEETHOVEN, HINDEMITH, INGOLF DAHL
with James Sullivan - clarinet
Jacqueline Suzuki - violin
Derek Stein - cello

SEPT 9, 2017 Annelle Gregory
solo violin
http://annelleviolin.com

DEC 2, 2017 Evan Marshall  
JAN 6, 2018 Arthur Omura 
solo harpsichord
https://www.arthuromura.com

Updated info will be posted at
EDENDALE BRANCH LIBRARY Website (with map):

This concert is made possible by a grant 
from THE HENNINGS-FISCHER FOUNDATION.

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