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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: Tenor saxophonist Benny Golson has been writing and recording jazz music for four decades now, and his noteworthy new album only scratches the surface of "One Day" in a career that has seemed to last "Forever." Golson's horn work has always consistently produced beautifully warm tones, but the selling point of this latest release is Benny Golson, the composer. As with most players, a composer's instrumental work attracts the most attention to his or her skills, and this rule holds true for Golson. Over repeating piano chords, which blink on and off like an unattended left turn signal, "Killer Joe" swings with an unobtrusively hypnotic swagger. It's an oft covered underside-of-the-pillow cool tune, and rightfully so. Like the most of this album, it is performed by the Sextet, which is a modified version of Golson's late Fifties/early Sixties Jazztet and features Art Farmer on trumpet and Curtis Fuller on trombone. This performance is highlighted by Fuller's full-bodied and authoritative solo. Later, on "Blues Alley," Golson's Sextet pulls out all the stops and rocks hard (if that can even be said about a jazz tune) on this propulsive ensemble piece. But these examples represent only one side of Golson's compositional personality. The incomparable Shirley Horn sings two ballads here: the title cut and a post-breakup cry called "Sad To Say." Produced to the hilt with a full orchestra, these two songs are significant in that they showcase Golson, the lyricist.
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Extractions: [an error occurred while processing this directive] Last Updated November 02, 2001 "Ancestral Ascent." Sophia Tsavalas' mixed media. Shown with Taraneh Hemami's photo collage "Re-counting." Through December. At Judah L. Magnes Museum, 2911 Russell St., Berkeley. (510) 549-6950. "Evening Train." Through Nov. 10. Oil on cardboard by Jewish artist Anthony Dubovsky. At George Krevsky Gallery, 77 Geary St., S.F. (415) 397-9748. "From Nomadic Tradition to Modern Permanence: Bedouin and Roma (Gypsy) Cultures Confront Modernity." Through Jan. 15. Photography by Melitta Tchaicovsky and Rana Halprin. At Marin Jewish Community Center, 200 N. San Pedro Road, San Rafael. (415) 44-8060. Photography exhibit. Elder Arts Celebrations. Through Nov. 4. Includes work by Rita Nachmann. At Crucible Steel Gallery-Cellspace, 2050 Bryant St., S.F. (415) 441-2649. "Telling Time: To Everything There is a Season." Exhibit of prints, drawings, paintings, sculpture, photographs, videos, rare books and Judaica through May. At Judah L. Magnes Museum, 2911 Russell St., Berkeley. (510) 549-6950. Weavings and metalworks. Through Jan. 2. Exhibition of Mary Ann Newman's tallitot and wall hangings and Aimee Golant's mezuzot and menorot. Opening reception 6:30 p.m. Oct. 5 following Shabbat service. At Elizabeth S. and Alvin I. Fine Museum, Congregation Emanu-El, 2 Lake St., S.F. (415) 751-2535.
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Extractions: WHETHER COMPOSING OR PLAYING, BENNY GOLSON TURNS THE UNKNOWN INTO SWEET MUSIC The first question to decide in an account of Benny Golson is the proper sequence of his job title: Is he a tenor saxophonistcomposer or a composertenor saxophonist? An avuncular, erudite conversationalist, Golson's narrative deploys polysyllabic words in correct context. He continues to carry himself with the seemingly unflappable aplomb and no-nonsense professionalism that allowed him to flourish and keep focus through a half-century of music business encounters. He's seen chitlin' circuit juke joints, tobacco warehouses and inner-city lounges that defined "funky" before the word became a musical category; and moved comfortably in sophisticated nightclubs and posh concert halls in the capitals of the world. But even Golson's cool was challenged when Howard University, where he matriculated from 1947-'50, called a few years back to inform him that they were instituting a scholarship in his name. "This was unreal," Golson exclaimed during a late-December conversation in the living room of his well-appointed Upper West Side high-rise. "I almost cried. During my third year at Howard, I became a rebel, and took to doing my assignments the way I felt that I could. Why can't I have octaves? Why must the dominant always go to the tonic? Why can't it come from the leading tonic? I started asking things like that, and they looked at me like I was crazy.
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Extractions: Volkslied (1840); also selections by Purcell, Handel, Mozart, Wolf, and Ernest Charles. At Grace Presbyterian Church, 5555 Wall Triana Hwy, Madison, Alabama. For more information, call 890-6436. MAY 15, Friday, 7:30 pm; Trio Cantabile An einem lichten Morgen , Op. 23 No. 2, , Op. 12 No. 11, Ihr Bildnis (1840 1st version), and Am Strande ; also selections by Robert Schumann (Widmung) and others; appearing with Consonare (duo of Phillip Weaver, Guitar and Ingrid von Spakovsky, Piano); on Monte Sano Mountain overlooking Huntsville, Alabama. Advance tickets $6 Adults, $4 Students; Admission at Gate $7; Advance tickets and Box Picnic Supper from the Market Place, $16 Adults, $14 Students; Tickets available at The Fret Shop, 256-539-8709, AB Stephens Music 256-880-1234, The Market Place 256-533-2607, Burritt Museum Office 256-536-2882. Bring your blanket or lawn chair and a picnic supper! For more information, contact David Kenneth Smith at
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Extractions: Jamestown Concert Association Concert Season Dates are correct as of December 10, 2003 * Schedule and locations subject to change with prior notice. Paul Cosentino and Friday, May 14, 2004 8:00 pm Rose Garden Reception Rooms in Busti The entire family will enjoy a fun-filled evening as we wrap up the season in the heart of the 20th century with this Dixieland-New Orleans style jazz band. Bring your dancing shoes...you never know! Find out more at: http://www.boilermakerjazzband.com Lara Downes Concert Pianist **New Date!!** Friday, June 18, 2004 8:00 pm This beloved, world-traveled artist returns for a wonderfully sensual performance of her own journey through the musical ages of the piano. Find out more at: http://www.laradownes.com/ Membership/Subscription Information Open seating at all concerts. Tickets mailed prior to first concert. Membership Type Single Couple College Student Senior (60+) Patron Sponsor Benefactor Tickets per concert Series Price Single tickets Single tickets are available at the door or at the Reg Lenna Box Office.
Extractions: Soloists Conductors Ensembles Orchestras ... Organizations and Management Soloists Adam, Bill (Bill Adam Tribute Web site) (trumpet) Afrocentric Voices in Classical Music ; Biographies and bibliographies on African Americans in classical vocal music Ainsley, John Mark (tenor) Angelov, Ludmil (piano) Alban, Carol (flute) Aler, John (tenor) Allen, Susan (harp) Allen, Sir Thomas (baritone) Alykova, Valentina (violin) Anfuso, Nella (soprano and contralto) Anthony, Janet (cello) Antonsen, Ole Edvard (trumpet) Antonsen, Ole Edvard (trumpet) Archibald, Paul (trumpet) Armiliato, Fabio (tenor) Arnesen, Bodil (soprano) Asbjornson, Susan (soprano) Avers, Randall (guitar) Avril, Franck (oboe) Ayres, Paul (organ) Bacon, Thomas (horn) Bagratuni, Suren
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Extractions: Interview: Benny Golson GARY WALKER INTERVIEWS BENNY GOLSON BG: He's a killer, he's a killer. There's nothing that this man can't do. GW: Dwayne Burno on bass and drummer Joe Farnsworth are featured as well. You also have bassist Ron Carter and pianist Mulgrew Miller and drummer Carl Allen, and Shirley Horn singing. You did the lyrics for "One Day, Forever." BG: Art used to play that particular tune. He played it beautifully, and Shirley does the same thing. GW: There's a tune that a lot of people associate with you, "Killer Joe." It was the first tune of yours that was ever recorded. BG: "Stablemates" was the second. GW: It all started back in Philadelphia, on Page Street. Mr. Coltrane lived on 12th Street. What was it like? You guys were teenagers together playing, weren't you? BG: We absolutely were. It was exciting. It was a time of aspiration and dreaming. We did a lot of dreaming in those days. We had our photographs [of the musicians we admired]. We'd see ourselves in those photographs, hoping. GW: Little did you know that you would be playing with a lot of those people whose photographs were up on the wall.
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