The concerts are held in the Kavinoky Theatre
on the Campus of D'Youville College
320 Porter Avenue, Buffalo,NY. 14201
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Next Performance:

RENDEZ BLUE FEST
 
Sunday, February 8th 2009, 3 PM
at Burchfield-Penney Art Center:
Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY. 14222, 878-5564
                                         
Honoring composer Lukas Foss: Guest artist Carol Wincenc, Nils Vigelund, Jesse Levine, Charles Haupt, Amy Williams, Jan Williams and many other artists
 
 Rendez Blue Fest is a Burchfield-Penney Art Center initiative featuring two-day mini-festivals held on extended weekends throughout the year.  These programs are designed around common themes that allow the Burchfield-Penney to address the varied and diverse interests of the community.  Offered during these weekends are a wide array of programs including films, lectures/symposia, musical presentations, poetry readings, and workshops.  Rendez Blue Fest is a new initiative featuring four-day mini-festivals held on extended weekends throughout a one-year period.  These programs are designed around common themes that allow the Burchfield-Penney to address the varied and diverse interests of the community.  Offered during these weekends will be a wide array of programs including films, lectures/symposia, musical presentations, poetry readings, and workshops.
 

GUSTO at The Gallery 8 PM
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Friday April 10 - 2009
Buffalo, NY Elmwood Avenue
 

Previous Performances
An interview with David Taylor from WBFO FM

Passacaglia for violin and cello     George F. Handel (1685- 1759)
arr. Johan Halvorsen (1864-1935)
Charles Haupt, violin        Jonathan Golove, cello

Zelig Mood Ring      Johnny Reinhard ( 1956-)

Un Grand Sommeil Noir   Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
(After a poem by Paul Verlaine)

Chants Populaires Hébraïques:  Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)
  No. 2   Le Chant du Veilleur
No. 5   Gloire à Dieu

Psalm No. XXXIV   Arthur Honegger (1892-1955)

David Taylor, trombone - Claudia Hoca, piano

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2 Slavonic Dances Op 72, No. 2 & 8    Dvorak-Kreisler (1841-1904)
2 Waltzes Op 54, No.1 &  3    Dvorak-Ondricek
Gypsy Song ("Songs My mother taught me") Op 55     Dvorak-Kreisler
Charles Castleman, violin - Claudia Hoca, piano

Piano Trio in C major K. 548    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Allegro
Andante cantabile
Allegro
Charles Haupt, violin – Jonathan Golove, cello - Claudia Hoca, piano

"A Musical Feast" - Press Release for 5-27-08
PRESS RELEASE 
(Buffalo, NY) - For immediate release: May 2, 2008
For more information or photos contact:
www.amusicalfeast.com
Irene Haupt - General Manager: haupt@amusicalfeast.com
For tickets, call the Kavinoky Theater 829-7668
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 "A Musical Feast," the dynamic new chamber music organization founded by retired Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra concertmaster Charles Haupt in 2006, presents the final concert in its very successful second season at The Kavinoky Theater of D'Youville College on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 at 8 PM. The program is presented in conjunction with the series' co-sponsor, "The Robert and Carol Morris Center for 21st Century Music," University at Buffalo. 

Making a very welcome return to "A Musical Feast" will be a special guest, the bass-trombone virtuoso David Taylor. The only bass trombonist to win the National Academy of Recording Arts and Science's "Most Valued Player Award," Mr. Taylor has done so a total of five times, the most times that it can be awarded to any musician.  He has been on numerous Grammy award-winning recordings, having recorded with artists as diverse as Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, YoYo Ma and the Rolling Stones, in addition to recording seven solo CD's.

 Mr. Taylor currently performs with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Charles Mingus Big Band, the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, the Michelle Camillo Band and the Bob Mintzer Band. Additionally, Mr. Taylor is a member of the Daniel Schnyder, David Taylor, Kenny Drew Jr Trio, the Trio Hidas and the group known as B3+.  He also appears frequently with Orpheus, and the St. Lukes Chamber Orchestras, and he is on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music and Mannes College. (For more information, visit his website: www.davetaylor.net)

Immediately before and after his Buffalo performance in May, Mr. Taylor will be performing and teaching in Europe. Highlights include a teaching and performing residency at the principal conservatory in Vienna and a residency at the Anton Bruckner Haus in Linz, as well as performing on May 8, as both a trombonist and a vocalist in the premier of the chamber/hip-hop opera Money, by Gene Pritsker, at the Etna Festival in Catania, Sicily.

Mr. Taylor previously appeared during "A Musical Feast's" first season, in a highly praised performance featuring own transcriptions of works by J.S. Bach and Franz Schubert. At the May 27 event, he will perform his transcriptions of songs by the 20^th century French masters Maurice Ravel and Darius Milhaud, and Arthur Honegger, Swiss-born member of the influential French group of composers known as 'Les Six,' accompanied by  Claudia Hoca on piano. Mr. Taylor will also perform Zelig Mood Ring, the soulfully exotic and chameleon-like performance piece for spoken word and bass trombone by the microtonal composer Johnny Reinhard.

Violinist Charles Castleman, whose stylish performances of the fiendishly difficult Sonatas for Solo Violin by Eugene Ysaye have been featured in several previous 'Musical Feast' programs, will be offering a change of pace for this concert. Pianist Claudia Hoca will join Mr. Castleman in offering three transcriptions, two by Fritz Kreisler and one by Ondricek, of music by Dvorak.

Making his welcome first appearance at "A Musical Feast," UB faculty member Jonathan Golove, cello, will join Mr. Haupt, violin, in a performance of the Passacaglia for violin and cello by Handel, in the brilliant, well-known arrangement by the Norwegian composer Johan Halvorsen. Mr. Golove , one of the finest cellists currently performing in Western New York, is both a composer and an outstanding concert performer, whose performances with the Baird Trio have garnered universal acclaim. Notable performances by Mr. Golove in the last month alone have included those of works as diverse as the Haydn Concerto for Cello in C Major (UB Symphony) and the monumental modern masterpiece "Lerchenmusik" - Recitatives and Ariosos, op. 53 for clarinet, cello and piano by the great contemporary Polish composer Henryk Gorecki.

The evening will conclude with a performance of Mozart's Piano Trio No. 5, in C major K. 548, featuring Mr. Haupt (violin), Mr. Golove (cello) and Ms. Hoca (piano). Composed towards the end of the composer's all too brief life, the work has a very natural elegance, combining great vitality with intimacy and, ultimately, a wonderful sense of serenity.

Once again, "A Musical Feast," promises an evening of deep listening enjoyment, where the most talented artists perform a carefully selected and balanced program of the very finest compositions, both familiar and rare.

Previous Concerts

" A  MUSICAL FEAST"
Tuesday, January 29, 8 PM   -  Recital Notes

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THE KAVINOKY THEATER, D'Youville College, 320 Porter Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201
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Co-sponsor: "The Robert and Carol Morris Center for 21st Century Music",
University at Buffalo

J.S.Bach Partita #3 for violin solo  BWV 1006
Preludio
Sonata #2 for violin solo "Obsession"   Eugene Ysaye
Obsession
Malinconia
Danse des Ombres
Les Furies
Charles Castleman, violin

Olivier Messiaen: From the Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps "Abime des oiseaux" (Quartet for the End of Time, Abyss of the Birds)
Jean Kopperud, clarinet

Stravinsky:" L'histoire du Soldat"
The Soldier's Tale
Christian Baldini: conductor
Paul Todaro: narrator, devil, soldier

Jean Kopperud, clarinet                                   Charles Haupt, violin
Marha Malkiewicz, bassoon                              Jonathon Lombardo, trombone
Rin Ozaki, percussion                                        Edmond Gnekow, bass
Jon Nelson, trumpet

Press Release

Paul Todaro is the narrator, the devil, the soldier in the very seldom performed Masterpiece " The Soldier's Tale" by Igor Stavinsky. The concert " A Musical Feast", organized by former BPO concertmaster Charles Haupt is starting its third year and going strong. The Faustian tale will be performed Tuesday, January 29, 8 PM. The exiting young Argentinian conductor, Charitian Baldini, will conduct Jean Kopperud, clarinet, Edmond Gnekow, bass; Jon Nelson, trumpet; Charles Haupt, violin; Martha Malkiewicz, bassoon; Jonathan Lombardo, trombone; Rin Ozaki, percussion Stravinsky collaborated with the novelist Ramuz in translateting a Russian story of the devil, who with Machiaviallian manipulations convinces the soldirt to compromise between his ideals and the ease of expediency. Once the contract is made, then the fun starts.

Jean Kopperud, clarinetist will play a solo part from the Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps "Abime des oiseaux" by Olivier Messiaen. Charles Castleman, violin, performs Bach solo sonata in G minor No.3 and Eugene Ysaye Sonata No.2 for unaccompanied violin.

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Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2007, 8 PM    -  Recital Notes

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Program

Co-Sponsor: " The Robert and Carol Morris Center for 21^st Century Music", University at Buffalo

  From: In Armida's Garden, Part One
Torquato Tasso (1544-1595)

Selections  from: "The Liberation of Jerusalem", a new verse translation by Max Wickert
Max Wickert, reader

Rocket Summer
David Felder (b. 1953)
Paolo Cavallone, piano

Confini
Paolo Cavallone (b.1975)
Paolo Cavallone, piano

Sonata for violin and piano
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Charles Castleman, violin    Claudia Hoca, Piano

Sonata for violin solo, opus 27, no. 6
Eugene Ysaye (1858-1931)
Charles Castleman, violin

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 From: In Armida's Garden, Part Two
Torquato Tasso (1544-1595}

Selections from: "The Liberation of Jerusalem", a new verse translation by Max Wickert
Max Wickert, reader

from Mörike Lieder
Hugo Wolf (1860–1903)
Im Frühling
Auf ein altes Bild
An den Schlaf

from Goethe Lieder
Gleich und Gleich
Ganymed
Tony Arnold, soprano    Claudia Hoca, piano

Piano Trio no. 1, op. 49
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Charles Haupt, violin    Feng Hew, cello   Claudia Hoca, piano
 

January 16, 2007, 8pm   -  Recital Notes

Rebonds (a)
Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001)
Tom Kolor, percussion

Voice
Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996)
Cheryl Gobbetti-Hoffman, flute

Music for Three
John Cage (1912-1992)
Tony Arnold, voice Cheryl Gobbetti-Hoffman, flute
Tom Kolor, percussion

Sonata no. 2 for violin solo, opus 95
Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996)
Allegro moderato (Monody) - Andantino grazioso (Pauses) - Presto agitato (Intervals) -
 Andantino non tanto (Replicas) - Allegretto leggiero (Accompaniment) -
   Lento affetuoso (Invocation) - Vivace marcato (Syncopation)
Charles Castleman, violin

Primavera
Thea Musgrave (born 1928)
Tony Arnold, voice
Cheryl Gobbetti-Hoffman, flute
 

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Rebonds (b)
Iannis Xenakis
Tom Kolor, percussion

Duo for violin and cello, opus 7
Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967)

I. Allegro serioso, non troppo
II. Adagio
III. Maestoso e Largemente ma non troppo lento – Presto
Charles Haupt, violin
Feng Hew, cello

October 3, 2006, 8pm  -  Recital Notes

Kavinoky Theater at D'Youville,
Porter Avenue (716) 829-7668

"Drei Deutsche Fantasien"

1. Pedal-Exercitium, BWV 598
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) / David Taylor (b. 1944)
David Taylor, bass trombone

2. Gavotte from Partita Six, BWV 830. transcribed by Steve Swallow
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Charles Haupt, violin               David Taylor, bass trombone

3. Der Doppelgänger
Franz Schubert (1797-1828) / Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) / David Taylor (b. 1944)
David Taylor, bass trombone

Romanze, Opus 85
Max Bruch (1838-1920)
Jesse Levine, viola                   Claudia Hoca, piano

Come Sunday, arranged by Michael Abene
Edward Kennedy"Duke" Ellington (1899-1974)
Charles Haupt, violin    David Taylor, bass trombone   Claudia Hoca, piano

Duo for violin and viola, No. 2 in Bb Major, K. 424
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
I. Adagio - Allegro
II. Andante cantabile
III. Tema con variazioni (Andante grazioso – Allegretto)
Charles Castleman, violin   Jesse Levine, viola

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Sonata for violin solo, Opus 27, No. 3 "Ballade"
Eugene Ysa¥e (1858-1931)
Charles Castleman, violin

Contrasts, SZ 111
Béla Bartók (1888-1945)
I. Verbunkos: Moderato, ben ritmato
II. Pihenö: Lento
III. Sebes: Allegro vivace
Charles Haupt, violin    Salvatore Andolina, clarinet   Claudia Hoca, piano

March 29, 2006 -  Recital Notes

Kavinoky Theater at D'Youville,
Porter Avenue (716) 829-7668

PHANTASY for VIOLIN ,  Opus  47
Arnold Schoenberg  (1874-1951)
Charles Haupt  , violin,                Claudia Hoca, piano

SIX  METAMORPHOSES AFTER OVID,  Opus 49 (1951)
 Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
I. PAN who played upon the reed pipe which was Syrinx, his beloved
II. PHAETON who rode upon the chariot of the sun for one day and was hurled into the river Padus by a thunderbolt.
III. NIOBE who, lamenting the death of her fourteen children, was turned into stone
IV. BACCHUS at whose feasts is heard the noises of gaggling women's tattling tongues and shouting out of boys.
V. NARCISSUS who fell in love with his own image and became a flower.
VI. ARETHUSA who, flying from the love of Alpheus the river god, was turned into a fountain.
Cheryl Gobbetti-Hoffman , flute
 

LEGEND for VIOLA and  PIANO
Arnold Bax  (1883-1953)
Jesse Levine, viola          Claudia Hoca,  piano

 DUO for VIOLIN and VIOLA  No. 1 in G major, K.423 (1783)
W.A. Mozart (1756-1791)
I. Allegro
II. Adagio
III. Rondo : Allegro
Charles Haupt , violin          Jesse Levine, viola
 

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SOLO SONATA Opus 27, No. 4
Eugene Ysaye  (1858-1931)
I. Allemande
II. Sarabande
III. Finale
Charles Castleman ,  violin
 

  TERZETTO in  C Major for TWO VIOLINS and VIOLA, Opus 74
Antonin  Dvorak (1841-1904)
I        Allegro ma non troppo
II       Larghetto
III      Scherzo, Vivace
IV      Tema con variazioni, poco adagio, molto  allegro
Charles Castleman, violin     Charles Haupt , violin     Jesse Levine, viola