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Something quite different! Our local community band members in Juneau Alaska joined the local Taku Winds group this weekend to play a concert of all indigenous composers for Native American Heritage Month. Heavy on percussion, I played marimba, vibraphone and bells (no piano though) and we had a local professional percussionists and even a World premier of a song written by a local composer. Pieces included “Raven”, “Wolf song”, a “Gathering of Eagles”, by Robert Buckley and Sinfonia India (a wicked piece mixing 5/4, 2/4, 7/8, 3/8, 6/8, 2/2, etc). Check them out on YouTube.
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At the end of a bicycling tour in France, I returned via Paris and was lucky enough to get great seats to see Martha Argerich and the Rotterdam Philharmonic perform at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the famous theater where Stravinsky's Rite of Spring premiere caused a ruckus back in 1913.
She is a spry 83 years old, and played the Bartok Piano Concerto No. 3 with the same clarity and dynamism as on recordings she made of this piece decades ago.
I first heard her in Carnegie Hall back in the late 1970's, and she has been one of my favorite pianists ever since. Don't miss an opportunity to see her live if you get a chance.
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I attended a local community performance by three local pianists, organized by our local nonprofit that runs 50 or more free classical concerts a year. The theme of this concert was “water music”.
