Don Pender, oboist and English horn with the Silicon Valley Symphony and former Deacon of Old First Church, presents his new quintet Jazzberry Patch in a tribute to Cannonball Adderley and Sérgio Mendes, with several bossa novas and sambas on the program.
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The dynamic young pianist Matthew McCright joins some of the Bay Area’s brightest up-and-coming new music stars in a concert highlighting the vitality and inventiveness of the next generation of Bay Area musicians. Performers include Jeff Anderle and Jonathan Russell, clarinets; Alisa Rose and Emily Packard, violins; and Brian Dowdy, guitar. The program features Bay […]
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Daniel Glover, piano, will perform Haydn’s Sonata in E-flat, ‘Genzinger’, three pieces in Homage to Haydn (1909) by Dukas, Ravel and Debussy, Chopin’s Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, ‘Funeral March’, Liszt’s Ave Maria (The Bells of Rome) and Funerailles (Burial), along with Hexameron, variations on the March from Bellini’s I Puritani by six composers.
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Daniel Glover, piano, will perform Haydn’s Sonata in E-flat, ‘Genzinger’, three pieces in Homage to Haydn (1909) by Dukas, Ravel and Debussy, Chopin’s Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, ‘Funeral March’, Liszt’s Ave Maria (The Bells of Rome) and Funerailles (Burial), along with Hexameron, variations on the March from Bellini’s I Puritani by six composers.
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Sarah Cahill, recently called “fiercely gifted” by the New York Times, performs new compositions written on the theme of peace from her project A Sweeter Music, inspired by this quote from Dr. Martin Luther King: “We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody that is far superior to the discords of […]
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