2\/11\/17
\nI. ASMAC MASTERCLASSES\u2028II. EVENTS
\n…Absolutely guaranteed anonymity – Former Musician’s Union officer
\n…The one voice of reason in a sea of insanity – Nashville ‘first call’\u2028scoring musician\u2028\u2028…Allows us to speak our minds without fear of reprisal – L.A. Symphonic musician
\n…Reporting issues the Musicians Union doesn’t dare to mention – National touring musician<\/p>\n
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I. ASMAC MASTERCLASSES presents “Steve and Julie Bernstein”
\non Music for Animation!<\/p>\n
Join us\u00a0Thursday evening, February 23rd
\n7:00 pm – 10:00 pm<\/p>\n
Valley College
\n5800 Fulton Ave., Valley Glen<\/p>\n
A MASTER CLASS
\nwith<\/p>\n
Julie Bernstein and Steve Bernstein<\/p>\n
Music for Animation<\/p>\n
Reserve Now
\nPay in Advance or at the Door
\nto guarantee sufficient hand-out materials.<\/p>\n
Join ASMAC THURSDAY EVENING – February 23rd- \u00a0for an informative
\nMaster Class with two Emmy Award winning composers of the hit
\nseries\u00a0Animaniacs, Pinky & the Brain, Freakazoid, Histeria! and
\nBaby Looney Tunes, to name a few. Discover what is involved in
\nwriting music for animation, including effective spotting, thematic
\ndevelopment, musical vocabulary, song parodies and much more.<\/p>\n
Four-time Emmy-award-winning composer\u00a0JULIE BERNSTEIN\u00a0has
\nworked in animation as a composer, orchestrator, arranger,
\nconductor, singer and producer. Animated series include\u00a0Animaniacs,
\nPinky and the Brain, Freakazoid, Histeria!, Tiny Toons, Baby Looney
\nToons, Make Way for Noddy, the feature\u00a0Wakko\u2019s Wish,\u00a0theatrical
\nshort\u00a0\u201cCarrotblanca\u201d\u00a0and CDs Yakko\u2019s World, Animaniacs and Tweety\u2019s
\nHigh-Flying Adventure. Her work has been played by the Cleveland
\nYouth Orchestra, the Kentucky Symphony and the COTA Symphony.
\nJulie has written numerous arrangements for string quartet and voice,
\nthe most recent having just been recorded in Paris by Natalie Dessay
\nand members of the Paris Mozart Orchestra. Julie\u2019s arrangement of
\n\u201cLittle Green\u201d by Joni Mitchell, written for the Turtle Island String
\nQuartet and Tierney Sutton, can be heard on Ms. Sutton\u2019s Grammy-
\nnominated album \u201cAfter Blue\u201d.<\/p>\n
Collaborations with her husband, composer Steve Bernstein, include:
\nMake Way for Noddy, Tom and Jerry: Blast Off to Mars, Baby Looney
\nTunes\u00a0(for which they were Emmy-nominated), Disney\u2019s\u00a0One Saturday
\nMorning,\u00a0main title songs for\u00a0Dig Into History\u00a0and\u00a0Steven Spielberg
\nPresents: Toonsylvania, a CD of songs commissioned by Kid Rhino
\nRecords inspired by the feature Tweety\u2019s High-Flying Adventure, as
\nwell as numerous independent films. Julie and Steve co-wrote \u201cSnapshots\u201d
\nfor oboe, cello and soprano, commissioned by the Young Musicians
\nFoundation for YMF\u2019s \u201cLiving the Legacy\u201d award. They recently wrote
\nthe orchestrations for the very popular Animaniacs Live!, premiered
\nby the Colorado Symphony.<\/p>\n
STEVEN BERNSTEIN\u00a0is a five-time Emmy-winning composer whose
\ncommercial music spans genres from horror to cartoons. His music
\nis heard in such hit television series as\u00a0Animaniacs, Pinky and the
\nBrain, Freakazoid, and Tiny Toon Adventures, along with the
\ncollaborations listed above with his wife Julie. Recent film scores
\ninclude the grisly horror films\u00a0Pernicious\u00a0andBlood Lake: Attack of
\nthe Killer Lampreys. He is currently scoring the feature documentary
\nMr. Fish: Cartooning From the Deep End.<\/p>\n
As an accomplished conductor, orchestrator, arranger and producer,
\nSteve has worked on numerous motion pictures, TV productions,
\npopular video games and recordings. His orchestrations can be heard
\nin the films\u00a0Skyfall, The Amazing Spiderman, The Spiderwick Chronicles,
\nMillions, Windtalkers, City by the Sea, How the Grinch Stole Christmas,
\nThe Perfect Storm, Supernova\u00a0and numerous others. He wrote the
\narrangements and produced the album FOREVERMORE for singer-
\nsongwriter Aron Celnick and co-produced the album Tweety\u2019s High-
\nFlying Adventure with Julie, performing and writing music and lyrics
\nfor many of the tracks. As part of the resurgence of interest in cartoon
\nmusic, he has guest-conducted for the Cleveland Youth Orchestra,
\nthe Colorado Symphony and the Kentucky Symphony, performing
\nseveral of his own scores live to picture.<\/p>\n
Steven has written extensively for the concert hall, receiving several
\ncommissions for large-scale works, both choral and orchestral, and
\nfor various chamber ensembles. He has also been active in the
\npreservation of classic film scores, from such films as\u00a0The\u00a0Wizard of
\nOz, Gone With the Wind\u00a0and\u00a0The Bride of Frankenstein;\u00a0 reconstructing
\nmusic which had been lost or destroyed,.<\/p>\n
Don’t Miss this very special opportunity to learn from the Bernsteins!<\/p>\n
Valley College – Music Building
\n5800 Fulton Ave., Valley Glen, CA
\nCorner of Fulton & Oxnard<\/p>\n
Thursday evening
\nFebruary 23rd
\n7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
\n(Check-in & Refreshments – 6:30 pm\u00a0)<\/p>\n
Free parking in lot on corner of Fulton and Oxnard.<\/p>\n
ASMAC Members and Students – $25\u2028Non-Members –\u00a0$40<\/p>\n
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II. EVENTS
\n———————————–\u2028\u2028\u2028\u2028DEAN AND RICHARD
\nare now at Culver City Elks the first \u2028Friday of \u2028every month.
\n7:30pm-10:30pm,
\n11160 Washington Pl.
\nCulver City, 90232
\n310-839-8891\u2028\u2028————————————-\u2028\u2028LA WINDS JAZZ KATS 584
\nNO COVER, NO MINIMUM.
\nEvery 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month at
\nViva Cantina
\n7:30-10:00.
\n900 Riverside Drive, \u2028Burbank.<\/p>\n
Free parking across the street at Pickwick Bowl.
\nCome hear your favorite charts played the way
\nthey \u2028should \u2028be. \u2028\u2028We are in the back room called
\nthe Trailside Room. \u2028\u2028\u2028Come on down.<\/p>\n
Guaranteed to swing.<\/p>\n
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2\/19\/17<\/p>\n
Elizabeth Farnum, soprano
\nClaudia Schaer,\u00a0violin
\nMax Lifchitz, conductor
\nThe North\/South Chamber Orchestra<\/p>\n
premieres by<\/p>\n
Arthur Gottschalk, David Maves,
\nWinnie Yang ,\u00a0Margarita Zelenaia<\/p>\n
Sunday, February 19\u00a0at\u00a03 PM<\/p>\n
Christ & St Stephen’s Church
\n120 West 69th Street\u00a0(bet Bway & Columbus)
\nNew York City<\/p>\n
Free Admission (no tickets necessary)<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.northsouthmusic.org\/calendar.asp<\/p>\n
The North\/South Chamber Orchestra celebrates winter on
\nSunday afternoon February 19\u00a0performing a\u00a0free-admission
\nconcert featuring four listener-friendly works by American
\ncomposers.<\/p>\n
Soprano Elizabeth Farnum and violinist Claudia Schaer\u00a0will
\nappear as soloists while the ensemble’s founder Max Lifchitz
\nwill conduct.<\/p>\n
The program will introduce New York City audiences to recent
\ncompositions by Arthur Gottschalk, David Maves, Lan-In Winnie
\nYang and Margarita Zelenaia.<\/p>\n
The event is part of the Composers Now Festival.<\/p>\n
It will take place at\u00a0the intimate and acoustically superior
\nauditorium of Christ & St Stephen’s Church (120 West 69th
\nStreet) on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The free-admission
\nevent will start\u00a0at 3 PM and end around 4:30 PM. The auditorium
\nis ADA accessible.<\/p>\n
No tickets or reservations needed.<\/p>\n
The composers will be in attendance and will introduce their
\nworks to the audience. Composers and soloists are available
\nfor interviews and media events. They may be contacted
\nthrough our office.<\/p>\n
ABOUT THE COMPOSERS AND THEIR MUSIC<\/p>\n
Arthur Gottschalk\u00a0is active as composer and arranger for feature
\nfilms, television and commercials in the Houston area. A long-time
\nRice University\u00a0faculty member, his musical style has been described
\nby the international press as\u00a0“rapturous, argumentative, prickly\u00a0and
\nfascinatingly strange.\u201d\u00a0A winner of the Charles Ives Prize of the
\nAmerican Academy of Arts and Letters, Gottschalk’s works have
\nreceived multiple performances\u00a0in Europe and the US.<\/p>\n
His\u00a0Imagenes de Cuba (Cuban Images) was inspired by frequent
\nvisits to the Caribbean island as well as by memories of his time
\nas a trombonist in salsa bands. The work is in three movements:
\nManisero, a playful examination of an ancient peanut vendor\u2019s
\ncry heard to this day in the plazas of old Havana;\u00a0Guajira, a
\ntypically slow movement which deconstructs the unofficial national
\nanthem of Cuba\u00a0and\u00a0Timba, a boisterous colloquy between the
\nmembers of the ensemble displaying a\u00a0 panoply of salsa and
\npachanga rhythms.<\/p>\n
David Maves served as Composer-in-Residence for the College of
\nCharleston in South Carolina, for over 30 years.\u00a0His catalogue
\nincludes symphonies, concertos\u00a0and an opera based on Federico
\nGarc\u00eda Lorca’s Bodas de Sangre (Blood Weddings).<\/p>\n
Inspired by John Donne’s poem\u00a0Lovers’ Infinitennes, Maves’ song
\ncycle\u00a0The Captive\u00a0is music envisioned as “….the poet\u2019s lover
\nreading the poem aloud with wonder; in awe, deeply moved, and
\nyet perhaps a bit frustrated as conditions pile up as the poet
\nattempts to construct an imaginary but air-tight intellectual edifice
\nwithin which the lovers are inextricably bound to each other \u2014
\nforever.” Soprano\u00a0Elizabeth Farnum will deliver the solo\u00a0voice part.<\/p>\n
Active as composer and pianist,\u00a0Lan-In Winnie Yang\u00a0has appeared
\non concert stages throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States.
\nTrained at Oberlin, the Manhattan School and Stony Brook University,
\nYang\u00a0serves as Music Director for the Taiwan-NY Music Guild. Her
\nworks have been performed by distinguished soloists and ensembles
\nincluding pianist Gilbert Kalish and violinist Philip Setzer. Her many
\nawards include\u00a0first prizes from the\u00a0Taiwan National Composition
\nand Piano Competitions.<\/p>\n
Yang’s\u00a0Transfiguration is a single movement composition for solo
\nviolin and string orchestra written especially for violinist Claudia
\nSchaer. Dramatic and powerful, the music\u00a0is built around mutations
\nof the four-note gesture heard at the outset. The demanding
\nwriting provides the soloist and ensemble with ample opportunity
\nfor technical display.<\/p>\n
Margarita Zelenaia has received grants from the Lower Manhattan
\nCultural Council; the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance; and the
\nAmerican Composers Forum. In her native Russia, her compositions
\nhave been heard as part of the Moscow Autumn Festival; the Young
\nPeoples’ Arts Festival; and the Moscow Spring Festival. Musical
\ncommentators have observed that \u201cwithout prejudices and stereotypes
\nin her writing, Zelenaia possesses a rare ability to infuse her music
\nwith humor and lyrical tenderness, while also producing works of
\ntremendous depth and seriousness.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her work\u00a0I Believe\u00a0“aims to convey my hope for world harmony and
\npeace. It is based on three prayers each representing a different
\nfaith: Jewish, Russian and American gospel. \u00a0Prayers have that
\nnatural course of movement, where both the music and the text are
\njoined at a certain level of vibration.\u201d<\/p>\n
MEET THE PERFORMERS
\nElizabeth Farnum\u00a0has been praised for her “lovely soaring soprano,
\ngreat agility and beautiful tone.” She has appeared at Lincoln Center,
\nthe Library of Congress, London’s Institute for Contemporary Art,
\nthe American Academy at Rome and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
\nHer various interests\u00a0have led her to performances on Broadway, at
\nthe Metropolitan Opera, and to five continents on tour\u00a0with diverse
\nensembles, including early music groups Pomerium and the Waverly
\nConsort.<\/p>\n
Canadian violinist Claudia Schaer trained at The Juilliard School
\nbefore earning a doctorate\u00a0from Stony Brook University. Described
\nby the press as a \u201crock-solid performer\u201d and praised for her
\n\u201coutstanding musicianship,\u201d Schaer has appeared as soloist at the
\nThy Chamber Festival in Denmark; the Berlin Philharmonic\u2019s Opera
\nBarga Festival in Italy; the Luzerne Festival in Switzerland; and China\u2019s
\nNanning Festival.<\/p>\n
Conductor\u00a0Max Lifchitz was awarded first prize in the 1976
\nInternational Gaudeamus Competition for Performers of Twentieth
\nCentury Music held in Holland. The San Francisco Chronicle described
\nhim as “a composer of brilliant imagination and a stunning, ultra-
\nsensitive pianist.” The New York Times\u00a0praised him for \u00a0“clean,
\nmeasured and sensitive performances.\u201d<\/p>\n
For the complete Winter\/Spring concert series schedule please visit<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.northsouthmusic.org\/calendar.asp<\/p>\n
To stream, download and\/or purchase the more than 60 compact discs
\nreleased on the North\/South Recordings label
\nplease go to<\/p>\n
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2\/24\/17<\/p>\n
DON’T MISS THE
\nTHE PHIL NORMAN TENTET
\nAT THE
\nNEWPORT BEACH JAZZ PARTY<\/p>\n
February 23rd thru February 26th
\nMarriott Hotel & Spa
\n900 Newport Center Drive
\nNewport Beach, CA 92660<\/p>\n
Tentet’s performance
\nFriday, February 24th @ 2:30pm<\/p>\n
For Tickets: 949-759-5003
\nwww.newportbeachjazzparty.com<\/p>\n
Remembering the classic sounds & variations of
\n12 jazz legends to include:<\/p>\n
The George Shearing Quintet
\nThe Dave Brubeck Quartet
\nThe Modern Jazz Quartet
\nThe Cal Tjader Quintet
\nthe Ahmad Jamal Trio
\nMiles, Dizzy and more<\/p>\n
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3\/1\/17<\/p>\n
FREE ADMISSION GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS<\/p>\n
Info about upcoming programs\u00a0through JUNE 2017
\nat the Free Admission Glendale Noon Concerts series
\n(concerts every first & third Wednesday at 12:10-12:40 pm)
\nare listed at\u00a0http:\/\/www.glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com<\/p>\n
Jacqueline Suzuki
\nCurator, GNC
\n818 249 -5108<\/p>\n
On Wednesday MARCH 1, 2017 at 12:10-12:40 pm
\nthe Free Admission Glendale Noon Concerts will feature
\nviola d\u2019amore player Adriana Zoppo, flutist Sherril Woods
\nand cellist Alexa Haynes-Pilon performing Telemann and Quantz
\nat the Sanctuary of Glendale City Church,
\n610 E. California Ave. (at Isabel St), Glendale, CA 91206.
\nFor more information, email glendalesda@gmail.com
\nor call (818) 244- 7241.<\/p>\n
Sanctuary of Glendale City Church,
\n610 E. California Ave. (at Isabel St), Glendale, CA 91206.
\nFor more information, email glendalesda@gmail.com
\nor call (818) 244- 7241.<\/p>\n
Thank you!
\nJacqueline Suzuki
\nCurator, Glendale Noon Concerts
\n818-249-5108<\/p>\n
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3\/18\/16
\nSFV SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
\nMar. 18, 2017 \u2013
\nAgoura Hills\/Calabasas Community Center
\nTuttle: By Steam or By Dream Overture
\nInaugural Performance
\nProkofiev: Symphony #1 in D major (Classical)
\nBen-Haim: Pastorale Vari\u00e9e for
\nClarinet, Harp and Strings
\nGeoff Nudell, clarinetist
\nBeethoven: Romance for Violin and Orchestra
\nRuth Bruegger, violinist
\n++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
\nOther concerts in the series<\/p>\n
May 13, 2017 \u2013 Agoura Hills\/Calabasas Community Center\u2028\u2028Saint-Saens: Bacchanale from \u201cSamson and Delilah\u201d
\nTchaikovsky:\u00a0Orchestral Suite No. 2 in C major
\nEgizi: Orchestral Suite \u2028\u201cIn Memoria di Mio Padre”
\nInaugural Performance<\/p>\n
Programs subject to change<\/p>\n
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3\/25\/17<\/p>\n
The Musicians at Play presents
\nPatrick Williams Big Band Live at the Moss
\nwith special guests Arturo Sandoval and Peter Erskine
\nSaturday- March 25th, 2017 8:00PM<\/p>\n
\ufffc
\nClick “Buy Tickets” to reserve your tickets\u00a0up to 12:00 p.m. on the
\nday of the show (Remaining tickets will be available at door at show time.)<\/p>\n
Award-winning composer Patrick Williams presents The Big Band Live!
\nfeaturing special guests Arturo Sandoval and Peter Erskine.<\/p>\n
VIP – Doors 7:00 p.m. early entry – refreshments<\/p>\n
General & Premium – Doors open 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
Concert starts: 8:00 p.m.\u00a0(there will be a brief intermission)*<\/p>\n
www.musiciansatplay.org<\/p>\n
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3\/26\/17<\/p>\n
LOS ANGELES SYMPHONIC WINDS
\nSubscription Concert 3 \u2013 Calabasas High School
\nStars of the Los Angeles Symphonic Winds
\nRevel in the artistry of some of the LA Winds\u2019 most
\nacclaimed performers.
\n-Geoff Nudell and Parker Gaims (now a member of the US Marine Corps Band) play Felix Mendelssohn\u2019s virtuosic Two Concert Pieces. Also on the program will be two works by the LA Winds\u2019 resident composer,
\n– Charles Fernandez\u2028\u2022 Sunday March 26, 2017\u2028\u2022 2:30 p.m.\u00a0 Performing Arts Education Centers.<\/p>\n
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