"SCENES FROM GUITAR ISLAND"
SANTA CRUZ GUITAR
ORCHESTRA - SPRING CONCERT 2012
directed by Mesut Özgen
Monday, May 21, 2012 at 7:30 pm
UCSC Music Center Recital Hall
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
(Heller & Meyer Drive on UCSC Campus, map and directions)
Admission: $23 general, $20 seniors, $16 students
Tickets are available at
UCSC Ticket Office: 831-459-2159 Theatre Arts UCSC Campus (hours: Tue-Sat 12-4 pm)
Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium Box Office: 831-420-5260 307 Church Street, downtown Santa Cruz (hours M-F 11am-6pm, S-S 10am-1:30pm)
Online at www.santacruztickets.com
and at the door.
Doors will open at 7:00 pm and the show will start at 7:30 pm.
The Santa Cruz Guitar Orchestra presents the 2011-12 season finale concert with an exciting program of music from Baroque and traditional South American to ragtime and swing jazz styles played by a symphony of guitars! Directed by guitarist/composer Mesut Özgen, the SCGO is comprised of professional players, teachers, and students from the local community. This year, the SCGO was invited to the Davis Art Center and Santa Cruz Baroque Festival and performed concerts for the enthusiastic audiences. The concert program includes a wide range of works. Among the highlights are Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos's beautiful Aria from the Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, Mark Houghton's "Twangology" inspired by the music of Django Reinhardt, Benjamin Verdery's "Scenes from Ellis Island" featuring surprise guest musicians in the exciting finale with a special rhythmic pattern from traditional East Indian music, and the swing jazz master Dorado Schmitt's "Tchavolo Swing" from the famous movie about Gypsy musicians: "Latcho Drom." Among the guest musicians are soprano Sheila Willey Hannon, guitarist Kenny Hill, violinist Aimee Hamel, and Paul Mehling, the lead guitarist and founder of the legendary swing jazz band "Hot Club of San Francisco."
PROGRAM
"Carnavalito" traditional South American
"Lute Concerto in D, RV 93" by Antonio Vivaldi
"Sugar Cane" by Scott Joplin
"Romanian Dance No. 1, op. 8a" by Bela Bartok
"Rumba" by Stepan Rak
"Twangology" by Mark Houghton
"Tchavolo Swing" by Dorado Schmitt
"Contrapunctus No. 1" (from the Art of Fugue, arr. M. Özgen) by J.S. Bach
"Rondeau et Gigue" (from The Fairy Queen) by Henry Purcell
"Suite Française" by Sébastien Vachez
"Mister Ioso" and "Rumba Marica" by Thierry Tisserand
"Aria" (from Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, arr. M. Özgen) by Heitor Villa-Lobos
"Scenes from Ellis Island" by Benjamin Verdery
Acknowledgements
Special thanks
to the Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church, Pastor Stan Abraham, Abigail Meloche, Kenny Hill, David Kaun, Susie Bower, Meg Sandow, Shelley Mossman, Matthew Grasso, Amy Beal, and Linda Burman-Hall for supporting the Santa Cruz Guitar Orchestra.
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Santa Cruz Guitar Orchestra:
Guitars:
Jay Arms
John Bower
Andy Dalton
Sean Hayward
Maya Khayat
Ziad Khayat
Michael Knorr
Devin Kosloff
Roger Mawer
Weston Mossman
Kyle Reilly
Alexei Shatz
Quena: Alice Gallup
Violin: Aimee Hamel
Bass: Clark Straub
Sopranos: Sheila Willey Hannon, Doanna Weissgerber
Swing Jazz Guitar Solo: Paul Mehling
Classical Guitar Solo: Kenny Hill
Electric Guitar Solo: Sean Hayward
Conductor: Mesut Özgen