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Event: SATURDAY AFTERNOON CONCERT
Venue:Santa Barbara Public Library - Faulkner Gallery, 40 E. Anapamu Street
Date & Time: Saturday, May 19, 2012, 3 p.m.
Admission: Free
On Saturday, May 19 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 will open with violist Jacob Adams and pianist Natasha Kislenko interpreting the lyrical and highly dramatic Concertpiece of Romanian composer Georges Enescu.
Next, Betty Oberacker and Steven Schneider, piano four hands, perform two attractive and completely contrasting works: the Fantasie in F minor by Franz Schubert, and the Romanian Dances by Béla Bartók. The Schubert work is one of the most expressive and sensitively spun-out masterpieces of the Romantic era, whereas the Bartók Romanian Dances, here arranged by Oberacker, are a compilation of six brief acerbic and rhythmically riotous folk dances.
Baritone Andre Shillo and pianist Betty Oberacker will conclude the program, offering a fascinating group of songs by two ever-popular Russian composers: Sergei Rachmaninoff and Pyotr Ilyich Tschaikowsky. Composed to texts by some of Russia's most esteemed poets, the ultra-romantic songs will be sung by Ukrainian-born Shillo in the original Russian.
For a complete listing of concerts for the 2011-2012 season, please see our Concert Schedule.
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