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

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

INTERMISSION

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
General admission: $ 25.00 Seniors: $ 20.00 Students: $ 10.00
Group prices available

 "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.

" A  MUSICAL FEAST"
Tuesday, January 29, 8 PM
Call: 829-7668   FOR INFORMATION & TICKETS
THE KAVINOKY THEATER, D'Youville College, 320 Porter Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201
www.amusicalfeast.com
General Admission:
$ 25.-  seniors: $ 20.-   students: $ 10.-  group prices available
Safe parking lot from Fargo or Connecticut Street

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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                              Jon Lombardo, trombone
Rin Ozaki, percussion                                        Edmond Gnekow, bass
Jon Nelson, trumpet

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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A MUSICAL FEAST"
Tuesday, November 13, 2007, 8 PM
Call: 829-7668 FOR INFORMATION & TICKETS
THE KAVINOKY THEATER, D'Youville College, 320 Porter Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201
www.amusicalfeast.com
General Admission:
$ 25.-  seniors: $ 20.-   students: $ 10.-  group prices available
Co-sponsor: The Robert and Carol Morris Center for 21st Century Music

Words and Music come together at the KavinokyTheatre Tuesday, November 13, 8 PM. Enjoy "A Musical Feast" with performances for voice, violin, and piano with guest poet Max Wickert, soprano Tony Arnold, and pianist/composer Paolo Cavallone. This musical maze will lead from excerpts of Wickert's new translation of an epic by Tasso through the last work of Debussy and up to piano works by Buffalo composers: David Felder's " Rocket Summer", and Paolo Cavallone's "Confini". A labyrinth of songs by Hugo Wolf, set to texts of Goethe and Morike, will be explored by Buffalo's own Tony Arnold, and Charles Castleman will continue his traversal of Ysaye's works for solo violin. All musical roads finally lead to Mendelssohn's first Piano Trio featuring Charles Haupt, violin; BPO Associate Principle Cellist, Feng Hew; and pianist Claudia Hoca. 

TORQUATO TASSO's Gerusalemme Liberata is perhaps the most powerfully influential Renaissance text in the history of Western Music.  At the core of this influence is Canto Sixteen of Tasso's epic, from which Mr. Wickert will be reading.  This depicts the romantic entanglement of the crusader hero Rinaldo with the pagan witch Armida.   It inspired literally hundreds of operas and other vocal or instrumental works, by composers that include Giaches de Wert, Monteverdi, Lully, Handel, Vivaldi, Gluck, Haydn, Rossini, Donizetti, Liszt, Brahms, and Dvorak.  (There is even a recent post-modern opera on the theme by Judith Weir, with the action transposed to modern Iraq.)  Tasso's poem was also for four centuries a source text for great painters, including Tintoretto, the brothers Carracci, Guercino, Pietro da Cortona, Domenichino, Van Dyck, Vouet, Poussin, Claude Lorrain, Tiepolo, Boucher, Fragonard, and Delacroix.

MAX WICKERT's The Liberation of Jerusalem, a rhyming verse translation of Torquato Tasso's epic, Gerusalemme Liberata , will be published by Oxford University Press in 2008. Max Wickert has published two other volumes of verse, All the Weight of the Still Midnight and Pat Sonnets , as well as over two hundred poems in journals including American Poetry Review, Chicago Review, Choice, Sewanee Review, Shenandoah, Xanadu and many others. His articles on opera have appeared in Opera Journal and Salmagundi. For over forty years, he has been on the English faculty in the University at Buffalo.

"A MUSICAL FEAST", Tuesday, January 16, 8 PM
KAVINOKY THEATER AT D'YOUVILLE COLLEGE, Porter Avenue, Buffalo NY.
General Admission: $25.00 | Students: $12.00 | Seniors: $20.00

Charles Haupt and Feng Hew, associated principal cellist with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, play Kodaly "Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7".

Tom Kolor, cited by the New York Times as a "virtuosic percussionist, in "Rebound" by Xenaxis. Tony Arnold, soprano and Cheryl Gobbetti-Hoffman, flute, will join Tom Kolor in John Cage's "Music for....." .Tony Arnold is internationally recognized for her interpretation of the contemporary repertoire. Gobbetti-Hoffman will also play a magical piece by composer Toru Takemistu: "Voice". And Charles Castleman will perform the Buffalo premiere of "Violin Sonata Nr.2" (written in 1967), by Mieczyslaw Weinberg who ranks along with Prokofiev and Schostakovich as one of the great Soviet composers. The charming, poetic PRIMAVERA, Spring, by Thea Musgrave will feature Tony Arnold, voice and Cheryl Gobbetti-Hoffman, flute.

October 3, 2006 at 8pm at the Kavinoky Theatre at D'Youville College. The program  included Bach duos featuring Haupt on violin and award-winning David Taylor on bass trombone. The concert event also included "Romance" (Bruch), "Contrasts" (Bartok), and Ysaye's Solo Sonata No. 3.

March 29, 2006 - Go to the Program