“ETHNIC ACCENTS”
The 2014-15 season featured music from corners of the world not often associated with chamber music, each adding new and distinctive voices to the world’s cultural melting pot.
LATIN AMERICAN FIESTA
8pm Saturday, November 29, 2014
*** PARLOR CONCERT
Holmes Hall, 719 Brighton Road, Allegheny West
PROGRAM
Paquito D’Rivera: Aires Tropicales
Júlio Medaglia: Suite “Belle Époque in Sud-America”
Ignacio Cervantes: Six Cuban Dances
Efraín Amaya: Kaleidoscope (commissioned by the RCW)
Amaya and Rebolledo: Aguinaldos (traditional Venezuelan Christmas music)
. . . . WORLD PREMIERE of these new settings for wind quintet
BALKAN RHYTHMS
8pm Saturday, May 9, 2015 *** PARLOR CONCERT
Panza Gallery, 115 Sedgwick Street, Millvale
PROGRAM
Ferenc Farkas: Ancient Hungarian Dances of the 17th Century
Çesk Zedeja: Andante from “3 Pjesë për Flaut e Piano” (Albania)
Ulvi Ceman Erkin: Three Pieces from Duyuslar (Turkey)
Mladen Pozajic: Tri Stavka (Croatia)
Vassil Kazandjiev: Rondino for Bassoon & Piano (Bulgaria)
Ahmed Adnan Saygun: Two Pieces from Inci’s Book, and
. . . . Etude on Irregular Meters (Turkey)
Bela Bartok: Romanian Dances, Sz. 56
CELTIC CONNECTIONS
with John Marcinizyn, guitar
8pm Saturday, June 27, 2015
Northmont Presbyterian Church,
. . . . 8169 Perry Highway, North Hills
PROGRAM
Ernest Bryson (arr. Whipple): Fanfare for an Adventure (Scottish)
Elway Bevin: Browning (Welsh)
traditional Irish: Fanny Power, Margret’s Waltz, Swinging on a Gate, South Wind
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Three Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes
traditional Celtic: Si Bheag, Si Mhor; Blarney Pilgrim; The Rakes of Kildare;
. . . . The Black Rogue; Guo Gan; The Foggy Dew
R. James Whipple: Variations on “Follow Me Up to Carlow” (Irish)
Peter Maxwell Davies: Scottish Renaissance Dances
