April 2012
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Festival 21 2012 - April 21! →
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David Leisner Interview - by Will Riley
David Leisner Interview
Questions by Will Riley
1. Hello David - thank you for speaking with us. We are all very excited that you are headlining Festival 21 this year! Your program has several works that will be new to much of the Boston audience, including the world premiere of Mariluna by Carlos Carillo, and the Boston premiere of David del Tredici’s Facts of Life (both works...
March 2011
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Members' Concert / Aaron Larget-Caplan
Program
My Darling’s Slumber (2008) by Francine Trester Mi Tango (2008/2010) by Hayg Boyadjian Tracing a wheel on water (2003) by Kevin Siegfried
Aaron Larget-Caplan, guitar
Francine Trester is Associate Professor of Composition at Berklee College of Music. Trester received her BA, MA and DMA from Yale University and later was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study composition in...
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Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FESTIVAL 21 RETURNS TO BOSTON Contact: Frank Wallace, (917) 693-5603; wallacecomposer@gmail.com
SPONSOR Boston Classical Guitar Society
WHO Rafael Aguirre [Spain], Olson/De Cari Duo [NYC], Maarten Stragier [Belgium], Nathan Kolosko, Jose Lezcano, BCGS Community Guitar Orchestra, Back Bay Guitar Trio, others
WHAT Festival 21: New Music for Classical Guitar; concerts,...
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A sample of prepared guitar from the CD enso,...
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May 2010
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April 2010
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Impressions of Spring Music
Bill Hartner is an old friend of mine who loves guitar music and wrote these poems after Festival 21 2010. Love it!
Impressions of Spring Music
I.
While you were playing your guitars,
I imagined the children’s voices I heard
As a part of the performance, so lucky,
Softly intermingled between the parts,
A duo made more than trio,
That conjured the outdoors on a warm spring evening
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March 2010
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Members’ Concert program
Members’ Concert April 10, 2009, 2:00pm Gordon Chapel, Old South Church, Boston
Back Bay Guitar Trio David Newsam, Sharon Wayne, and John Mason
Procissao Fernando Brandåo
Drunken Marrionette John Mason.
George Attisano
Sunburst Andrew York (b. 1958)
Jerald Harscher
Digital Etude ...
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Latin Landscapes Trio program
Latin Landscapes Trio April 10, 2010, 3:00pm Gordon Chapel, Old South Church, Boston
José Manuel Lezcano guitar Paul Schliffer flute Matthew Shubin bassoon
from Sonatina Tropical José Manuel Lezcano (b. 1960)
for flute & guitar
Cancion de Madrugada
En Clave de Son
Cuban Sketches José Manuel Lezcano
Guaracha...
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ChromaDuo program for Festival 21
ChromaDuo
April 10, 2010, 4:00pm
Gordon Chapel, Old South Church, Boston
Tracy Anne Smith and Rob MacDonald, guitars
Adagio and Fugue (2007) * Christopher William Pierce (b. 1975)
Tres Homenajes Húngaros Roberto Sierra (b. 1953)
à Bartok
à Liszt
à Ligeti
Pause
Three Pieces for Two Guitars (2009)* Christopher William Pierce
No. 1 Moderate
No. 2 Allegro ritmico
No. 3...
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Improvisation class
Gyan Riley will lead a class on improvisation at 1:00pm at Festival 21. Great for any classical guitarist who wants to get a handle on how to approach improv. Gyan says,
“My improvisation class will explore improvisation from a simple, accessible, and approachable perspective, spiraling outward into various developmental and compositional applications.”
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Timberlane High Guitar
I’ve mentioned before that I am thrilled that the Timberlane Regional High School in Plaistow NH has a new guitar program being developed by John Zevos. It’s in its second year and John is busy preparing them to join in the festivities at Festival 21 on April 10. They will attend the whole day and play in the combined orchstra to debut Jose Lezcano’s new work, So the Poet will...
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Comments on Festival 21, 2009
BCGS Member Mike Hurley wrote this to a friend after last year’s Festival 21.
Well, I did say hello to Michael for you. I liked him from the first minute I met him. I was so amazed that he took an interest in me! On Friday night, he played the first half of a concert featuring music of Ernesto Garcia de Leon. What a treat to hear him play in the Old South Church in Boston! I was ...
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Master Class
Players and music for the Gyan Riley Master class April 11, 12pm at Longy School. All are students of David Patterson:
1. Geoff Brown: TBA 2. Bjorn Wennas/Emilia Salsar: Snow Dreams by Joan Tower 3. Jay Tally: 2nd and 3rd movement, Lybra Sonantine by Roland Dyens 4. Zac Edwards: Capricho Arabe by Tarrega
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Program for evening concert
Gyan Riley
April 10, 2010, 8:00pm
First Lutheran Church, Boston
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BCGS Community Guitar Orchestra, Scott Borg, director
conducted by José Lezcano, Patricia Pedroza, narrator
with
Keene State College Guitar Orchestra José Lezcano, director
Timberlane High School Guitar Orchestra John Zevos, director
World Première:
So the Poet will be Heard:
Homage to Victor Jara ...
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February 2010
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"Gravity and Air" One of 2009's Best in "Time Out...
I’m pleased to say that Gravity and Air made it into a couple “Best of 2009” lists, including one from The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, and another in Time Out Chicago, where classical writer Doyle Armbrust wrote:
“The fretwork of guitarist Andrew McKenna Lee is nothing short of remarkable. Opening Gravity and Air with an homage to Bach — a sensuous rendition of Prelude...
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January 2010
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Meet the Composer!
The BCGS has just been granted funds to support Jose Lezcano’s composition for the BCGS Orchestra. BRAVO! and thank you Adrienne Petrillo and all at NEFA who keep these programs going.
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World Premiers
Just learned ChromaDuo will give the world premiere of Triptych by emerging American composer Gary Stewart; & Jose Lezcano has finished first two movements of his piece for guitar orchestra.
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Gyan Riley plays RH Study →
This is Gyan playing one of his Four Etudes for the Right Hand (2008)
Complete with pertinent preparatory exercises for each etude, the series explores the techniques of tremolo, cross-string trills, arpeggios in odd-numbered groupings, balancing voices in chords, and index finger “picking”.
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Lilac.Star.Bird is gorgeous, passionate
Tracy Anne Smith is half of the ChromaDuo who will play at Festival 21 on April 10 at 4pm. They are fabulous, but I had not heard Tracy alone ‘til this moment. I wrote Tracy after about 15 mintues into her fabulous CD - this is one hell of a gutarist - and more importantly a top-class musician.
“Dear Tracy - I’m sitting here doing event info on Facebook - listening to your CD...
December 2009
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Thanks Augustine
Great Big Thanks to Augustine Foundation for supporting Festival 21 again this year! I just learned that our major grant application has been approved.
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No Nocturnal?!
New Music in Mexico City
On October 1 this year I gave a concert for the V Festival Internacional de Compositores a la Guitarra Pa’ lo Escrito. Organized by Guillermo Soriano, a student at UNAM, the five-day festival is a feast of new music for guitar. I was the second North American representative, last year West Coast composer/guitarist Philip Rosheger performed. Each night featured a guest...
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Jose Lezcano commissioned by Festival 21
Dr. Jose Lezcano of Keene State College has been commissioned by Festival 21 to write a piece for guitar orchestra. Dr. Lezcano describes: “The working title of the piece is ‘Homage to Victor Jara.’ Jara was an immensely gifted folk-singer and songwriter, and martyr of the Pincochet-led coup d’etat in Chile during the early 1970s that led to a military “reign of terror” and human...
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Gyan Riley Master Class at Longy School
April 11. 2010 from 12 - 3 pm Zabrisky building at Longy Wolfinsohn Room One Follen Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Telephone: 617-876-0956
Festival 21 and the BCGS are proud to announce that Gyan Riley will give a master class for students of David Patterson at the Longy School as part of Festival 21. All welcome! Free admission.
Co-sponsored by The Longy School String Dept and the BCGS...
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A festival brings what Boston isn't hearing →
This is a very interesting take on new music in Boston and how Festival 21 is a very important addition to the scene. An article about the Beeline Festival by Jeremy Eichler of the Boston Globe, from last April, which I just discovered.
September 2009
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