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Cellist Beatriz Blanco and pianist Federico Bosco follow the success of their first Odradek album with Of Love and War, a sumptuous programme of music by Nadia Boulanger, Richard Strauss, Debussy, Webern, Hindemith and Fauré, featuring mezzo-soprano Solenn’ Lavanant-Linke.

Of Love and War, partly inspired by Eduardo Galeano’s novel Days and Nights of Love and War, draws parallels between the isolation and pent-up passions of wartime and the experiences of the current pandemic. Much of this repertoire was composed around the time of the First World War, but also embraces broader themes of beginnings and endings, night and day, love and loss. 

Nadia Boulanger is celebrated as a teacher of great composers, but was a composer in her own right; her Three Pieces occupy a similar soundworld to that of Debussy, whose Cello Sonata is at the heart of the programme, and Fauré, whose song Les berceaux we hear in an arrangement for cello and piano. There are works by Webern that show us ‘before and after’ his early lessons with Schoenberg: the Zwei Stücke für Cello und Klavier of 1899, written when Webern was only 16, and the Drei Kleine Stücke, Op. 11 and Cello Sonata, both dating from 1914. The album discovers a softer side to Hindemith in his richly Romantic Three Pieces, Op. 8, and the whole recital is framed by glorious songs by Strauss and Debussy, performed by Solenn’ Lavanant-Linke.

15 - NADIA BOULANGER - 3 Pieces For Cello And Piano - I. Modere

Show Titled: "Under Pressure"
Commissioned by College Park HS | The Woodlands, Texas
Wind Arrangements by Evan VanDoren
Percussion Arrangements by Andrew Markworth

For more, visit https://www.evanvandoren.com/project/under-pressure/

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“Scythian Suite”, by Sergei Prokofiev, arr. Evan VanDoren

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Johann Sebastian Bach OUVERTURE nach französischer Art (Partita h moll)  BWV 831 Gigue

Sample the first four tracks from ACRONYM's latest album, featuring the wild harmonic and metric surprises of the instrumental music of Giovanni Valentini (c1582-1649)

Giovanni Valentini: Sonata a 5 In G Minor

Chœur de chambre Exprîme
direction | Jérôme Polack
Claudine et Paul-Henri Florès | piano
Nadia Bendjaballah | percussions
Ruben Galland | soliste enfant

Enregistré en concert le 
Vendredi 13 mai 2016 à 20h
plateau des EMA de Vitry-sur-Seine

Prise de son : Exprîme

Ce programme rassemble deux grandes œuvres pour chœur et orchestre : la Symphony of Psalms d’Igor Stravinsky et les Chichester Psalms de Leonard Bernstein. Elles posent la question de la frontière entre le sacré et le profane, que les siècles passés avaient cru définir. 
Réfléchissant à l’effectif nécessaire à son projet, Stravinsky choisit « un ensemble choral et instrumental dans lequel ces deux éléments seraient mis au même rang sans prédominance de l’un sur l’autre ».
Le chœur de chambre Exprîme propose ces œuvres dans des versions transcrites pour piano à quatre mains et percussions ; ces instruments prennent le relais de l’orchestration complète et offrent un cadre plus dépouillé qui fait ressortir l’écriture chorale et le texte des psaumes, notamment dans la double fugue monumentale qui constitue le deuxième mouvement de l’œuvre du compositeur russe.
À travers le langage universel de la musique, Stravinsky et Bernstein parlent celui, plus universel encore, d’une religion au-delà de toute obédience.

02 Stravinsky - Symphony of Psalms - I

Agustin Ortiz Myst

Silvius Leopold Weiss - Sonata No. 50 in B-Flat Major: II. Courante

Gymnopedie no.3, a beautiful and haunting melody from one of France's great composers, Erik Satie. While this piece is simple, it also has a great deal of emotional depth and it is the transmission of this that makes it so challenging to play, as with many of Satie's pieces.

Gymnopedie no.3 - Erik Satie - Classical Guitar

Evan VanDoren is an in-demand music composer regularly commissioned to create engaging & award-winning music for marching bands and concert ensembles at all skill levels. Evan’s music is regularly performed around the country, including premiere performances at the Texas Music Educator’s Association Convention and the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic. Currently, Evan serves as brass composer & arranger for the Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps, from Santa Clara, California.

Evan is an active clinician, presenting for Drum Corps International, the Music Educators National Convention, the Texas Bandmasters Association, the Texas Music Educators Association, and Music for All. He regularly consults with band programs around the country. Additionally, Evan is an active adjudicator with Bands of America, the University Interscholastic League, and the Texas Music Adjudicators Association.

Before devoting his life to creating music, Evan was a band director at Cedar Park High School, in Cedar Park, Texas, during which time the band was awarded multiple marching state championships and national recognition. He received a Bachelor in Music Education with Honors from Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. Currently, he lives in Cedar Park, Texas, with his wife, Katie, daughter Anna, and their dog, Cooper.

“Scythian Suite”, by Sergei Prokofiev, arr. Evan VanDoren

Evan VanDoren Music