Erik Satie - Choral hypocrite from "Choses vues a droite et a gauche (sans lunettes)"
Andrew Kohji Taylor (Violin)
Judith Gordon (Piano)

Wayne Leechford and Friends

02/05/2012 15:00, Carswell Hall, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC

Out of the Cool - David Heath (soprano sax, piano)
Bushwakker Six-Pack - Elizabeth Raum (alto sax, clarinet, piano)
New York Gardens - Adrienne Albert (tenor sax, clarinet, piano)

Intermission

Two Little Serious Pieces - Silvestre Revueltas (baritone sax, clarinet, piccolo, oboe, trumpet)
Notturno, Op. 45 - Gustav Bumcke (baritone sax, harp)
Suite, Op. 291 -Alan Hovhaness (alto sax, guitar)
Sextour Mystique - Heitor Villa-Lobos (alto sax, flute, oboe, guitar, harp, celesta)

Wayne Leechford - soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone saxophones
Lanette Lind - piano and celesta
Jim Williams - clarinet
Irene Burke - flute and piccolo
Carrie Shull - oboe
Ed Stephenson - guitar
Lisa Burn - trumpet
Elizabeth Munch - harp

3800 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh, NC 27607

Steven Zynszajn, Violinand Steven Graff, Piano

01/25/2012 12:15, Preston Bradley Hall

Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert

In the Style of Martini: Andantino Fritz Kreisler

Sonata in G Major, K. 301 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Hungarian Dances Johannes Brahms
No. 12 Presto (D minor)
No. 13 Andantino grazioso (D Major)
No. 15 Allegretto grazioso (B-flat Major)

arr. Joseph Joachim (1831 – 1907)

Le Grand Tango Astor Piazzolla, arr. Sofia Gubaidulina (b. 1931)

Chicago Cultural Center Michigan Avenue between Randolph and Washington Streets

Soheil Nasseri, Piano

01/18/2012 12:15, Preston Bradley Hall

Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert

4 Novelletten from Op. 21 Robert Schumann (1810 – 1856)
No. 1 in F Major: Markiert und kräftig
No. 4 in D Major: Ballmäßig. Sehr munter
No. 5 in D Major: Rauschend und festlich
No. 6 in A Major: Sehr lebhaft mit vielem Humor

Fantasie in F minor, Op. 49 Frédéric Chopin

Chicago Cultural Center Michigan Avenue between Randolph and Washington Streets

Joshua Roman, Cello and Zsolt Bognar, Piano

01/11/2012 12:15, Preston Bradley Hall

Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert

Stücke im Volkston, Op. 102 Robert Schumann

Sonata for Cello and Piano in E Minor, Op. 38 Johannes Brahms

Chicago Cultural Center Michigan Avenue between Randolph and Washington Streets

Denis Evstuhin, Piano

01/04/2012 12:15, Preston Bradley Hall

Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert

Fantasie-impromptu, Op. 66 Frédéric Chopin

Scherzo No. 1 in B minor, Op. 20 Frédéric Chopin

Sonatine Maurice Ravel

Rhapsody Espagnole Franz Liszt

Chicago Cultural Center Michigan Avenue between Randolph and Washington Streets

Johann Sebastian Bach - Prelude No. 17 in A-flat Major from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I
Meng-Chun Chien (Piano)

New Year 2012

January 2, 2012. Happy 2012! Thanks to the tradition of the Vienna Philharmonic concerts, New Year’s music tends toward Johann Strauss Jr. and the 19^th century operetta. As much as we enjoy Vienna, this is not the kind of music we love. So we turn again to Bach’s magnificent Christmas Oratorio: Part IV was written for the Feast of the Circumcision of Christ, which falls on New Year's day, and Part V – for the first Sunday of the New Year. Here is the opening chorus from Part IV, Fallt mit Danken, fallt mit Loben (Fall Down in Thanks, Fall Down in Praise). And here is the first movement (Chorus) Ehre sei dir, Gott, gesungen (Let your glory be sung out, oh God) from Part V. Both are performed by English Baroque Soloists the Monteverdi Choir under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner (courtesy of YouTube).

St. Nicholas Church

Pictured on the left is St. Nicholas church in Leipzig. It’s interesting that during Bach’s time the only complete performance of the Oratorio took place in St. Nicholas (it happened between December 25, 1734 and January 6, 1735). Only four parts were performed in Bach’s own church of St. Thomas. Two and a half centuries later, in 1989, St. Nicholas became the center of demonstrations against East Germany’s Communist regime, which in the end brought down Berlin Wall.