[Choir] FW: upcoming performances in New England states - Michael Arnowitt, pianist (2a)

Sat Nov 11 16:53:45 CST 2023

FYI.  BB

From: Michael Arnowitt <MA at MAPiano.com> 
Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2023 1:54 PM
To: 'Michael Arnowitt' <MA at MAPiano.com>
Subject: upcoming performances in New England states - Michael Arnowitt,
pianist (2a)

Dear friends,

I’ll be returning to New England next month to do some performances wearing
both my classical and jazz hats. First, on the December 1-2-3 weekend, I’ll
be finally premiering my classical piano program “Crossroads” that I had
intended to play a year ago but had to postpone due to illness. The feature
piece on the program is a piano transcription of the orchestral music of the
first movement of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, my all-time favorite piece by
Mahler that I have been deeply in love with since my teenage years. It’s a
remarkable big-canvas journey approaching a half-hour in length and will
certainly be a challenge for me to perform, but hey, giving yourself
challenges is the only way you ever grow. To give myself a bit of a break,
though, the other pieces on this program are ones I have been performing
here and there over the last two years, but sometimes nice things happen
when you after a gap in time bring back on a program a piece of music you’ve
played before, as you come up with fresh ideas and develop a deeper
familiarity with the music. Certainly I absolutely love every piece on this
program and very much hope you’ll take the time to come to one of my
performances and join me as I share this wonderful music.

I’ve listed the date/time/place info for my various concerts below and
wanted to mention just one more thing. If you know of any jazz music lover
that might be willing to host a house concert for my jazz group on one of my
open dates in the states of New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, or Vermont,
that would be fantastic as the other musicians playing with me held certain
dates for me but I wasn’t very successful trying the usual live music spots
in these states, so I really think the best option if possible would be to
find someone willing to organize a private house concert for me. I have
availability for a duo jazz concert with Clyde Stats on upright bass on
Thursday, December 7 or a trio with Clyde and Keith Gibson on drums on
either Saturday, December 9 or Sunday, December 10. If you can help me at
all with making something happen so I could add an additional performance
for my jazz group I’d be very grateful – of course, if nothing emerges I’ll
just release the other players for these dates and apologize and life goes
on, but it would certainly be nice while we’re on the road to do another
event if possible.

here's the details for my public performances in December:

Classical piano concerts, “Crossroads” program

Friday, December 1 at  7:30 pm - St. Paul’s Cathedral, Burlington, Vermont 

Saturday, December 2 at 2 pm - Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph,
Vermont

Sunday, December 3 at 7 pm - Scandinavian Cultural Center, Nordic Hall, 206
Waltham Street, West Newton, Massachusetts

Performances with my group “ImproVisions Jazz”

Wednesday, December 6 at 7 pm – Cary Memorial Library, Lexington,
Massachusetts (jazz duo with me and Clyde Stats, bass)

Friday, December 8 at 7 pm - Cadenza, 5 Depot Street, Freeport, Maine (trio
with Clyde Stats, bass and Keith Gibson, drums)

Thursday, December 14 at 6:30 pm - Brass Lantern Inn, Stowe, Vermont
(quartet with Clyde Stats, bass, Keith Gibson, drums, and Tom Gershwin,
trumpet)

Short descriptions of my classical and jazz performances are below. And as
always, feel free to forward this information to anyone you know who lives
near one of the places I’m performing that you think might enjoy my music.

Best,

Michael Arnowitt

802-229-0984

MA at MAPiano.com <mailto:MA at MAPiano.com> 

Michael Arnowitt classical piano program “Crossroads”

Pianist Michael Arnowitt presents his new program “Crossroads,” a concert of
expressive, highly personal,  and  emotionally moving  music. The
centrepiece of the program is a piano transcription of the first movement of
Mahler’s celebrated Ninth Symphony, universally recognized as one of the
greatest symphony movements of all time, expressing Mahler’s feelings on the
earth, nature, and death. Highlights of the program include two pieces by
the present-day Ukrainian composer Victoria Poleva, whose absorbing and
soulful music Michael Arnowitt has been trying to raise appreciation of in
Canada and the United States, and a set of the wonderfully creative piano
pieces of the early 20th century composer Arthur Lourié, whose forgotten
music has only just been receiving attention from performers in recent
years. The program is rounded out by shorter pieces by Bach, Schoenberg, 

Lutoslawski, and Debussy. 

The pieces on the program reflect music whose expressive character the
pianist believes is well-suited to his musical personality. Michael Arnowitt
says, “Through these composers who did not shy away from exploring our
innermost selves, these pieces touch our deepest emotions and spiritual
yearnings.”

J.S. Bach - Four selected fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Books 1 and
2

Claude Debussy - Étude no. 3, Pour les quartes (1915)

Witold Lutoslawski - Study for Piano no. 2 (1941)

Victoria Poleva - Ischia Island (2019) and Sonata no. 2 “quasi una fantasia”
(2011) 

Arthur Lourié - Mazurka op. 7 no. 1 (1912), Intermezzo (1928), and Marche
from Quatre pièces (1927) 

Arnold Schoenberg - Piano Piece op. 11 no. 1 and Six Small Piano Pieces op.
19

Gustav Mahler - Andante comodo, first movement from Symphony no. 9,
transcribed for piano by Iain Farrington

Michael Arnowitt and ImproVisions Jazz

Pianist Michael Arnowitt is joined by Clyde Stats on upright bass and Keith
Gibson on drums in a colorful and diverse program of jazz past and present.
They will perform jazz classics by Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny,   and Bill
Evans, along with Michael Arnowitt’s versions of jazz standards such as
There Will Never Be Another You and Autumn Leaves. Their program also
features  selections from Michael Arnowitt’s Jazz Suite from West Side
Story, his arrangements of Gershwin’s My Man’s Gone Now from Porgy and Bess
and the Beatles’ Eleanor Rigby, some of Arnowitt’s original compositions
from his jazz album Sweet Spontaneous, and the pianist’s “Burana Bop” based
on musical material from Carl Orff’s exciting and dramatic Carmina Burana.

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