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A special program celebrating the yuletide season with the music of J. S. Bach, John Dowland, and Mario Castelnovo-Tedesco. Performances will include guitar, guitar and flute, guitar and harp, as well as festive holiday music for guitar orchestra directed by Larry Ferrara.
Every year, pianist Mike Greensill is joined by a changing roster of friends in a Labor Day weekend performance at Old First Concerts. This year, Greensill is joined by Ruth Davies on bass in a program of songs composed by jazz musicians: from Erroll Garner’s Misty to George Shearing’s Lullaby of Birdland, and of course many Duke Ellington swingers and ballads plus the odd Mike Greensill composition.
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Moving easily from classical to jazz to world music styles as a pianist and composer, Stephen Prutsman continues to explore and seek common ground and relationships in the music of all cultures and languages. In this concert he pairs music of J.S. Bach with piano transcriptions of Progressive Rock classics.
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Charged Particles perform a selection of Michael Brecker’s compositions spanning thirty years, capturing the essence of Brecker’s spirit without slavish adherence to every nuance of his classic recordings.
Renowned jazz critic Bill Milkowski introduces the event with a short talk and preview of his forthcoming book Ode to a Tenor Titan: The Life and Times and Music of Michael Brecker, the first-ever definitive biography of Michael, coming out this fall.
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Two rarely-heard sonatas by Bartók and Bacewicz are performed by esteemed Bay Area musicians Terrie Baune and John Chernoff.
