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Marcos Minà's latest CD The Italians will be released this September! The disc features music by Paganini, Giuliani, Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Bettinelli. The featured works are four very beautiful and sparkling works of great importance in the guitar repertoire. We are looking forward to the first reviews that will be out later this Autumn.
During the 2011-12 and 2012-13 seasons Marco will be performing two new recital programs: one based on his The Italians CD and a second highlights major works by Giuliani, Beethoven and Zago. Marco has created a "Grande Sonata" from Giuliani's opus 148 and opus 150 sonatas. The second work is Marco's transcription of Beethoven's Sonata Opus 101, a virtuoso piece never before performed. This masterpiece demands a very new and much more intimate moving approach from the guitar. The last work was written by composer Vittorio Zago, whose music is performed regularly at the most prestigious music halls throughout Europe. This work for solo guitar "Women's carpets II" was written for and dedicated to Marco.
Watch for Marco Minà's "Guitarevolution" which will be broadcast soon on Italy's Classica television network. |
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To commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11, Houston Grand Opera presents the premiere of Pieces of 9/11, Memories from Houston, a specially commissioned song cycle by renowned US composer Jake Heggie (Dead Man Walking, Three Decembers, Moby Dick) and librettist Gene Scheer (Three Decembers, Moby Dick).
Commissioned as part of HGO's Song of Houston project, a unique initiative designed to connect a great opera company to its community through collaboration, the work commemorates those Houstonians who were affected by, and responded to, events on September 11, 2001 and features NAI's Talise Trevigne as special guest artist.
Performances
Sept. 9, 12pm at City Hall Reflection Pond (PREMIERE)
Sept. 9, 7pm at Discovery Green, followed by the Houston Premiere of the film "Rebirth"
Sept. 10, 7:30pm at the Arab American Cultural and Community Center
Sept. 11, 2pm at Rothko Chapel
Sept. 11, 4pm at Rothko Chapel
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