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The Glebe Music Festival 2007
Highlighting the music of Eugene
Ysaye and also music from Nepal.
Featuring the internationally acclaimed violinst Ronald Woodcock playing
the Six Solo Sonatas Op. 27 of Eugene Ysaye and Ajay Goldsmith from Nepal
with his 6 piece band Sangeet
Artistic Director Dr E. David G.
McIntosh
Assistant Director, Philipp Schulz, sponsored by AIFS Australia.
Concert 1:
Saturday 10th November 2007 at 7-30pm,
Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe.
Cabaret returns with David McIntosh (piano) and Rex Melville (vocal)
Tickets $15 (concessions $10) includes refreshments.
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Concert 2:
Thursday 15th November 2007 at 7-00pm,
The Great Hall, University of Sydney. Sydney Conservatorium of Music Ensembles
Studies Unit (free admission).
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Concert 3:
Friday 16th November 2007 at 7-30pm,
The Old Court House, cnr St John's Road and Talfourd Street, Glebe.
Quantum Theory - saxophone, guitar, drums, bass
Quantum Theory is new concept jazz group and will be playing original
compositions
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Tickets $10.
Concerts 4a and 4b:
Saturday 17th November 2007 at 5-00pm and 7-30pm with food/drinks
at 6-30pm, Margaretta Cottage, 6 Leichhardt Street, Glebe Point. Ronald
Woodcock will be giving a performance in the "documentary style"
presentation on the great 19th Century Belgian violinist Eugene Ysaye.
Ronald Woodcock will perform the complete Six Solo Sonatas Op. 27 in
two one-and-a-quarter hour recitals (the first three at 5-00pm and the
second three at 7-30pm). Each sonata was dedicated to a famoous violinist
and friend of Ysaye's - Kreisler, Szigeti, Thibaud, Enesco, Quiroga and
Crickboom - and reflects his admiration, and affection, for each musician.
Ronald will intersperse each sonata with a short talk about Ysaye's life
as a virtuoso violinist, composer, teacher and conductor.
Ysaye was a larger-than-life character who lived through an extraordinary
time for musicians and composers, and was one of the greatest violinists
and musicians of all time. From an impoverished home in the coal and industrial
town of Liege in Belgium, he rose to enjoy the immense prestige and plaudits
of the great European musical centres, the praise and dedication of famous
composers of the time, and the patronage of one of his violin pupils,
Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians.
Ronald Woodcock has toured in over 90 countries during a distinguished
career as concerto and recital soloist, chamber player, teacher and orchestral
conductor. he has performed in world musical centres such as London, Vienna,
Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, Copenhagen, Tel Aviv and Buenos Aires as well as
in remote countries such as Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Peru and the Solomon
Islands.
Tickets $20 for the 5pm concert, $20 for food/drinks at 6-30pm, $20 for
the 7-30pm concert (concessions $10/$10/$10)
feel free to come to any combination of concerts and food/drink.
Concert 5:
Sunday 18th November 2007 at 3-00pm,
the gardens of Margaretta Cottage, 6 Leichhardt Street, Glebe Point. Ajay
Goldsmith from Nepal with his 6 piece band Sangeet. www.sangeetband.com
Tickets $20 (concessions $10) includes refreshments.
Concert 6:
Sunday 25th November 2007 at 3-00pm,
St Scholastica's Chapel, cnr Arcadia Road and Avenue Road, Glebe Point.
Murilo Tanouye - classical guitarist from Brazil plus chamber music with
harpsichord.
Tickets $20 (concessions $10).
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Concert 7:
Sunday 2nd December 2007 at 3-00pm,
St Scholastica's Chapel, cnr Arcadia Road and Avenue Road, Glebe Point.
Coro
Innominata
From a New World
Since the arrival of the first European explorers, new choral music was
written in the American continent. Renaissance composers from Spain and
Portugual travelled to Mexico where they soon developed new music for
use in the region. The early settlers in the north combined puritan hymnody
and folk songs to create the American spirituals. By the start of the
twentieth century these influences had evolved into a musical voice that
was distinctly American.
Come and discover some of the sound worlds of the American continent,
from the motets of Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla and songs of William
Billings to the music of Samuel Barber, Morten Lauridson and Aaron Copeland,
including his grand setting of the story of Creation In the Beginning.
The program will also include the world premiere of a work commissioned
by Coro Innominata from young Australian composer Anna Jacobs, currently
studying composition in New York. Explore with us the variety of the American
choral tradition.
To order tickets please call 0413 440 173 or purchase
tickets...
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