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Bach to the Future!

Today: March 17th at 5:

 

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New York, NY – 03/16/13 – The Lounge at Hudson view Gardens – Bach to the future!

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New York, NY – 03/14/13 – Ellington Room at Manhattan Plaza – Vox n Plux

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New York, NY – 03/10/13 – St. Mark\’s Church in the Bowery – Music of Alexa Babakhanian

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Debut recording by the Anderson-Fader Guitar Duo

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At last! The Debut recording from the Anderson-Fader Guitar Duo, long known as pillars of the new music community in New York, and also as the plucked instruments in the award winning Cygnus Ensemble. The disc includes many works written specifically for the Duo. Composers represented include Brickle, Corbett, Rokeach, Wuorinen, Welch, Johnson, Lang, Pollock, and Biscardi.


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Notes below:

American music in the early 21st C. is a musical circus. Anderson and Fader offer a disc that traverses a broad range, outlined by two Pulitzer Prize winners – the brilliant maverick David Lang on one extreme, and the unrepentant modernist Charles Wuorinen on another. This disc includes many works commissioned by the duo, and most of them are recorded here for the first time.
Soprano Elizabeth Farnum is featured on Sidney Corbett’s poignant masque, Archipel Chagall II: Le Cirque and acclaimed soprano Haleh Abghari joins the duo in Anderson’s setting of Gillian Welch’s My Morphine (a pristine example of Southern decadence). My Morphine sets the tone for Scott Johnson’s psychedelic Bowery Haunt, a latter-day prog-rock tour de force. Wuorinen’s Dodecadactyl likens the duo’s 12 strings to poetic units or ‘dactyls’, here paired with Martin Rokeach’s vastly contrasting Fantasy on 12 Strings, the work which won the Cygnus Ensemble’s composition award in 1996. Composer, virtuoso pianist and Maui resident Robert Pollock is represented here with his highly virtuosic and ‘entertwining’ Entertwined. Chester Biscardi’s work never fails to garner extraordinary critical praise, most recently for Anderson-Fader’s performance at the Library of Congress, where the Washington Post cited the “delicate and beautiful Resisting Stillness for two guitars”.

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New York City, NY – 02/27/13 – Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium – Collegiate Chorale

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New Bach Video

Prelude from BWV 998 by Bach, one of my favorites.

Recorded live at the Ellington Room in NYC, February 15, 2013

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New York, NY – 02/15/13 – Ellington Room at Manhattan Plaza – Bowers/Fader Duo in Recital

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New York, NY – 02/15/13 – Ellington Room at Manhattan Plaza – Bowers/Fader Duo in Recital

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New York, NY – 02/15/13 – Ellington Room at Manhattan Plaza – Bowers/Fader Duo in Recital

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New York, NY – 02/15/13 – Ellington Room at Manhattan Plaza – Bowers/Fader Duo in Recital

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Bowers-Fader Duo in recital

Friday February 15, 2013

8:00pm

The Ellington Room at Manhattan Plaza

400 W. 43rd St. NYC

Free Admission

Credit: Christian Miles
Credit: Christian Miles

 

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Laudate dominum                                                                                                                Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

from Vesperae Solennes de confessore                                                                                                   (1756-1791)

 

Treue Liebe (Edouard Ferrand)                                                                                                           Johannes Brahms

Der Schmied (Johann Ludwig Uhland)                                                                                                        (1833-1897)

Sonntag (Uhland)

Sapphische Ode (Hans Schmidt)

Vergebliches StÓ“ndchen (Anton Wilhelm Florentin von Zuccalmaglio)

 

Prelude from BWV 998                                                                                                               Johann Sebastian Bach

(1685-1750)

 

Das Lied der Trennung (Klamer Eberhard Karl Schmidt)                                                                                   Mozart

Das Veilchen (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Abendempfindung an Laura (Unknown)

Sehnsucht nach dem Frühlinge (Christian Adolf Overbeck)

 

 

~intermission~

 

Histoires naturelles (Jules Renard)                                                                                                            Maurice Ravel

Le Paon                                                                                                                                                      (1875-1937)

Le Grillon

Le Cygne

Le Martîn-Pecheur

La Pintade

 

It ain’t necessarily so                                                                                                                               George Gershwin

(1898-1937)

It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing                                                                                               Duke Ellington

(1899-1974)

I bought me a cat                                                                                                                                             Traditional