Tonight’s presentation will feature over 160 years of Brazilian choro including a repertoire of the musical styles that created the genre now called “choro.” The concert will be divided into 3 parts: Part 1: “The Birth of Choro” will include musical styles from 1850 – 1900 such as the African Lundu, Schottisch, and Spanish Habanerea. Part 2: will showcase Choro and Samba with references to Jacob de Bandolim and Radames Gnattal with compositions including maxixe, choro and sambas of 1900 – 1950. Part 3: “Choro Novo” will illustrate references until today in 2018 including modern choros and compositions including compositions by Rogerio Souza.
On A History of Choro, their first recorded collaboration, guitarist Rogério Souza, guitarist Edinho Gerber, and percussionist Ami Molinelli survey the musical history and evolution of choro, revealing its rhythmic and harmonic permutations and, in the process, create an album that is coherent in timbre and vision while marvelously varied in its nuances.
According to Molinelli, “The intention for this album overall was to ensure that each song reflects a different musical style within the genre of choro and to showcase reinterpretations of more recognized tunes as well as lesser known compositions.”
The album’s 12 tracks present choro’s history in three blocks: the first representing the foundational block of the late 19th century through the first decade of the 20th century; the second representing the intermediate range of the music from 1910 through 1940; and the third representing the modern range from the 1940s through to the present day. Selections by composers such as Henrique Alves de Mesquita, Joaquim Callado (by all accounts the verified creator of both the choro style and name), Pixinguinha, Heitor Villa-Lobos, and Jacob do Bandolim, are here performed alongside original compositions by Souza and Molinelli.
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Ann Mony and guest artists host a classy dance party straight out of Prohibition days with some of the hottest jazz and swing bands in the Bay Area! Features live jazz and a drop-in taster class in swing dancing.
8:30-9:00 Drop-in Taster Class
9:00-12:00 Social Dance and Live Music
Visit sfbootleggersball.com for more info on musicians and schedule.
Music Center students of all ages perform in recital. Additional program details TBA.
An Introductory workshop to Choro with Rogerio Souza of Duo Violao, Edinho Gerber and Ami Molinelli. We will be going over the musical styles of choro and the history of the genre including the maxixe, choro, choro-samba, baiao, etc. For those that read music we will have charts and handouts. All musicians or interested are welcome.
This workshop will include examples from the CD/album described below
On A History of Choro, their first recorded collaboration, guitarist Rogério Souza, guitarist Edinho Gerber, and percussionist Ami Molinelli survey the musical history and evolution of choro, revealing its rhythmic and harmonic permutations and, in the process, create an album that is coherent in timbre and vision while marvelously varied in its nuances.
According to Molinelli, “The intention for this album overall was to ensure that each song reflects a different musical style within the genre of choro and to showcase reinterpretations of more recognized tunes as well as lesser known compositions.”
The album’s 12 tracks present choro’s history in three blocks: the first representing the foundational block of the late 19th century through the first decade of the 20th century; the second representing the intermediate range of the music from 1910 through 1940; and the third representing the modern range from the 1940s through to the present day. Selections by composers such as Henrique Alves de Mesquita, Joaquim Callado (by all accounts the verified creator of both the choro style and name), Pixinguinha, Heitor Villa-Lobos, and Jacob do Bandolim, are here performed alongside original compositions by Souza and Molinelli.
We are grateful to LP for their support of this workshop.
Students enrolled in CMC’s Chamber Music program perform in small ensembles, directed by CMC clarinet faculty member Rachel Condry. Additional program details TBA.
CMC cello faculty member Ben Snellings will be presenting a concert of string solos and duos from the Baroque, Classical, and Neo-classical styles, and repertoire from Hungary. Selections will include Haydn, Bach, Prokofiev, and Kodály.
This faculty concert series is made possible by support from the Shenson Foundation.
The theme of this year’s Annual Keyboard Marathon is “Revolution! Music in Times of Turmoil, Trouble, and Triumph”. Twenty pianists are participating, performing works by eighteen composers. The music dates from the 18th century to the present day, including a world premiere! See below for the complete program.
This year’s concert will be a true marathon, with four 50 minute sets, divided by ten minute intermissions. There will be a concession stand in the courtyard for audience refreshments during the intermissions, then a champagne reception at the end of the concert for performers and audience to enjoy, providing a great way to meet and greet CMC’s talented piano faculty.
Come prepared to immerse yourself in a world full of passion, virtuosity, poetry, and celebration!
Marathon 2019 Program :
ACT I (1:00): Triumph, revolution, silence, fugitive visions, and a cry for liberation
1•Shirley Wong:
suite movements by François Couperin:
La Triomphante, Le Trophe, and La Convalescente
2• Richard Thomas:
“Revolutionary” etude by F. Chopin
3•Lilia Zheltova:
4’33”, by John Cage
Visions Fugitive # 10,16,17 by Sergei Prokofiev
4• Matylda:
Milosz Magin piece.
5• Jon Jang:
Lift Every Voice and Sing, by J. Rosamond Johnson
ACT II (2:00): Refugees, grandiose dances, jazz influences and an independent woman
1•Grace Huenemann:
Prelude in Bb minor, Op. 33 No. 10 by Bortkiewicz
Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in D, Op. 23 No.
2• Bruce Loeb:
Polonaise Op. 89 by Beethoven
3• Lauren Cony:
selected preludes by Ruth Crawford
4• Jacqueline Chew:
Nikolai Kapustin’s 8 Concert Studies, Op. 40 No.4 Reminiscence (6’)
Grande Polonaise Brillante by Chopin
ACT III (3:00): Poetry, irony, death, and Napoleonic heroism
#1 of the Trois Nouvelles Etudes by Frédéric Chopin
General Lavine – eccentric -from Preludes Book II by Claude Debussy,
Janáček Sonata 1.X.1905, “From the Street”, mvt. 2 “Smrt” (“Death”)
Beethoven Waldstein Sonata mv. I
2nd mv. of the Waldstein Sonata by Beethoven.
3rd movement of the Waldstein Sonata, by Beethoven
ACT IV (4:00): American trailblazers, then and now
Sketches Op. 15 by Amy Beach: Autumn, Fireflies, Phantom
selected variations from El Pueblo Unido by Frederic Rzewski
Revolt and Reveal, by Paula Dreyer
The Caravan, by Erik Walker
Power to the People/Supreme Beings, by Maestro Curtis
FINALE: Duet celebrating the founders of the piano marathon:
Gavrilin Duet
Please join the Community Music Center on Saturday, May 11 for our annual Spring Gala at the Intercontinental Hotel in San Francisco, honoring James C. Hormel and Michael P. Nguyen with the Getrude Field Community Impact Award, for their transformational support of CMC’s New Voices Bay Area TIGQ Chorus.
Special performance by Robin Sutherland.
Additional program details TBA.
CMC’s Spring Gala raises funds to support our mission of providing high quality music education to all people, regardless of their financial means.
