January - Classical Music Series Concerts

<BODY BGCOLOR="#f0f0f0"> <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="6" WIDTH="528" STYLE="border-collapse: collapse" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <TR> <TD WIDTH="29" HEIGHT="33" BGCOLOR="EEE9CC"> </TD> <TD WIDTH="387" HEIGHT="33" VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT" BGCOLOR="EEE9CC"><FONT FACE="Arial"> <FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"><B>2009-10 Season:</B> <A HREF="november09.htm" TARGET="_top">Nov</A> | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May</FONT></FONT></TD> <TD WIDTH="185" HEIGHT="33" VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT" BGCOLOR="EEE9CC"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"><A HREF="http://www.patronmail.com/pmailweb/PatronSetup?oid=16" TARGET="_top">Sign up for our <B>E-newsletter</B></A></FONT></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="29"> </TD> <TD WIDTH="387" VALIGN="TOP" ALIGN="LEFT" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><SPAN STYLE="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: Arial;color:navy"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE="+1"><FONT SIZE="3"><B><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="10" BORDER="0"><BR></B>NOTES FROM ARMENIA </FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE="font-family:Arial;color:navy"><BR> <FONT COLOR="#000000"><A HREF="michael1.htm"><FONT SIZE="-1">Michael Morgan,<I> Conductor</I></FONT></A></FONT></SPAN><BR><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="10" BORDER="0"><BR><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 18.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE="4">January 22, 2010</FONT></SPAN><B><SPAN STYLE="font-family:Arial;color:navy"><BR> </SPAN></B><SPAN STYLE="font-family:Arial;color:navy"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="-1">Friday, 8:00pm, Paramount Theatre, Oakland <MAP NAME="map1"> <AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="3,3,97,27" HREF="http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1C003E82E1C0BD42?artistid=806636&majorcatid=1" ALT="Buy Tickets On-line Thruogh Ticketmaster" TARGET="_blank"> </MAP> <BR><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="10" BORDER="0"><BR>Pre-concert talk by <A HREF="bailey.htm" TARGET="_top">John Kendall Bailey</A></FONT><BR><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="10" BORDER="0"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:red"><B><BR></B><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>Program</B><BR><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="10" BORDER="0"><BR><B>Edvard Mirzoyan</B> - Symphony for Timpani <BR>and String Orchestra (1962) <BR><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="10" BORDER="0"><BR><B>Lazar Saryan </B>- Panel Armenia (1966) <BR><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="10" BORDER="0"><BR><B>Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart</B> - Symphony No. 39 (1788) <BR><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="10" BORDER="0"><BR>Works featuring violinist <B>Mikhail Simonyan</B><BR><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="10" BORDER="0"></FONT><B><BR><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="8" BORDER="0"><BR> <MAP NAME="map2"> <AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="11,4,101,29" HREF="http://www.patronmail.com/pmailweb/PatronSetup?oid=16" TARGET="_blank"> </MAP> <MAP NAME="map2"> <AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="33,52,101,78" HREF="http://www.patronmail.com/pmailweb/PatronSetup?oid=16" ALT="Join our Email List" TARGET="_blank"> </MAP></B></SPAN><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1">Building on the success of last year's concert featuring Persian music, we'll once again explore classical music from another distant region of the world. This year we'll introduce our audience to the exotic rhythms and instrumentation of music from Armenia, whose music has some of the same harmonic richness and vibrancy as Persian music. <BR><BR>This concert will feature Edvard Mirzoyan's exciting work for orchestra and solo timpani, with its fiery folk rhythms and unique orchestration, and Lazar Saryan's Panel Armenia, which was inspired by the paintings of the composer's father, the great Armenian painter Martiros Saryan. Also on the program will be Symphony No. 39 by Mozart (Michael Morgan's favorite composer), written in a blaze of inspiration along with Symphonies No. 40 and 41 during a six-week period in the summer of 1788. <BR><BR><I><B><FONT SIZE="2">(Suitable for children 10 and over.)</FONT></B></I></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD WIDTH="185" VALIGN="TOP" ALIGN="CENTER"><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="10" BORDER="0"><BR><IMG SRC="../image/200910/mikhail-simonyan.JPG" ALT="Mikhail Simonyan" ALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="180" HEIGHT="231" BORDER="0"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"><BR>Simonyan<BR><BR><I><FONT COLOR="#505050">"Simonyan brought breadth, Lyricism, and fleet technique to this ruminative, extravagantly scored music... he played as if every note counted."<BR>~The New York Times</FONT></I></FONT></TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY>