Upcoming Events
Event: SATURDAY AFTERNOON CONCERT
Venue: Santa Barbara Public Library - Faulkner Gallery, 40 E. Anapamu Street
Date & Time: Saturday, 14 January 2012, 3pm
Admission: Free
Dedicated to the music of the renowned French Impressionistic composer, Claude Debussy (1862-1918), the concert features masterworks from his inimitable creative style, one which greatly influenced succeeding artists in both classical and jazz idioms.
The program begins with piano duo Donna Massello-Chiacos and Lynne Garrett performing the delightful and exhilarating Petite Suite, a four-movement work written originally for piano four hands in 1889.
Next, Soprano Carol Ann Manzi and pianist Betty Oberacker interpret the Proses lyriques, an exquisitely subtle and sensual song cycle composed in 1892-93; the four songs of the cycle are the only ones Debussy composed for which he also wrote the texts.
Pianist Robert Else will then present four works from Préludes, Book I, written in 1909-1910: Danseuses de Delphes (Dancers of Delphi), Le vent dans la plaine (The Wind on the Plain), La cathédrale engloutie (The Sunken Cathedral), and Les collines d'anacapri (The Hills of Anacapri), all sensitive depictions of enigmatic images.
Concluding the program will be Debussy's last composition, the Sonate for Violin and Piano, with Nicole McKenzie and Betty Oberacker. Composed in 1917, the three-movement work is replete with dream-like illusions juxtaposed with vibrant and powerful rhapsodic sections, bound together with improvisatory freedom and elegance.
Event: SATURDAY AFTERNOON CONCERT
Venue: Santa Barbara Public Library - Faulkner Gallery, 40 E. Anapamu Street
Date & Time: Saturday, 28 January 2012, 3pm
Admission: Free
On Saturday, January 28, at 3 p.m. the SANTA BARBARA MUSIC CLUB will present another program in its popular series of concerts of beautiful Classical music at Faulkner Gallery in the downtown Public Library.
The program begins with three works for an unusual combination: four cellos. Carol Roe, David Roe, Katherine Mendenhall and Sally Greenebaum will perform the sprightly Humoresque by Julius Klengel, Gute Nacht and Jesu meine Freude, two uplifting chorales by Johann Sebastian Bach, and Ja-Da, a traditional ragtime barbershop harmony piece by Bob Carleton, arranged by David Roe.
Next, pianist Donna Massello-Chiacos will interpret three masterpieces from the French Impressionist repertoire: the playfully flowing Prélude from Suite Bergamasque by Claude Debussy, the subtly dreamlike La valée de cloches (The Valley of Bells) by Maurice Ravel, and Francis Poulenc's lyrical and sauntering Mouvements perpétuels.
Concluding the program will be the ultra-romantic Sonata in A Major of César Franck, presented by violist Jacob Adams and pianist Pascal Salomon. The work was originally composed for violin, but due to its exceptional popularity has been transcribed for viola, cello, flute, violin and strings, violin and orchestra, organ with choir, and even tuba.
Event: SATURDAY AFTERNOON CONCERT
Venue: Santa Barbara Public Library - Faulkner Gallery, 40 E. Anapamu Street
Date & Time: Saturday, 11 February 2012, 3pm
Admission: Free
On Saturday, February 11 at 3 p.m. the SANTA BARBARA MUSIC CLUB will present another program in its popular series of concerts of beautiful Classical music at Faulkner Gallery in the downtown Public Library.
The program begins with the sparkling and intriguing Sonata, Op. 14 (1961) of the American composer Robert Muczynski, performed by flutist Linda Holland and pianist Lynne Garrett.
Next, cellist Katelyn Mendenhall and pianist Allen Bishop will present one of the most lyrical and eloquent works of Ludwig van Beethoven: his Sonata in G minor, Op. 5, No. 2.
Soprano Deborah Bertling and pianist Richard Weiss will conclude the program with four offerings: the seldom heard but fascinating Psyche, by the French impressionistic composer Émile Paladilhe; "Vilia," from the ever-popular Viennese operetta The Merry Widow, by Franz Lehar; "Belle nuit," from the lavishly imaginative opera The Tales of Hoffmann, by Jacques Offenbach; and the exhilarating "Je veux vivre," from Roméo et Juliette by Charles Gounod.
Event: SATURDAY AFTERNOON CONCERT
Venue: Santa Barbara Public Library - Faulkner Gallery, 40 E. Anapamu Street
Date & Time: Saturday, 25 February, 3pm
Admission: Free
On Saturday, February 25 at 3 p.m. the SANTA BARBARA MUSIC CLUB will present another program in its popular series of concerts of beautiful Classical music at Faulkner Gallery in the downtown Public Library.
Violinist Philip Ficsor will open the program with the Adagio and Fuga from one of Johann Sebastian Bach's most innovative and complex creations: his Sonata in G minor, BWV 1001, for solo violin.
Four Songs(2011) by Santa Barbara composer William Ramsay will follow, performed by Sloane Artis, soprano, and Egle Januleviciute, piano.
Concluding the afternoon will be the Clarinet Quintet, K. 581, of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. One of the earliest and best known of all chamber works featuring the clarinet, it will be interpreted by Per Elmfors, clarinet, David Stone and Elaine Schott, violins, Laury Woods, viola, and Carol Roe, cello.
For a complete listing of concerts for the 2011-2012 season, please see our Concert Schedule.
Items of Interest
SBMC January 2012 NewsletterGerald Carpenter: SBMC to Honor Debussy