"DUELING STRINGS"
SANTA CRUZ GUITAR
ORCHESTRA - SPRING CONCERT 2011
directed by Mesut Özgen
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Kuumbwa Jazz Center
320-2 Cedar Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Directions
Admission: $20 general, $18 seniors, $15 students
Advance tickets are available at brownpapertickets.com and Streetlight Records (939 Pacific Ave. Santa Cruz)
Doors will open at 7:00 pm and the show will start at 7:30 pm.
The Santa Cruz Guitar Orchestra presents the final concert of the 2010-11 season with an exciting program of music from baroque and romantic to jazz, ragtime, western, and rock'n roll styles played on many guitars! Directed by guitarist/composer Mesut Özgen, the SCGO is comprised of professional players, teachers, and students from the local community. The concert program includes a wide range of works. Among the highlights are Grieg's beautiful orchestral suite "Peer Gynt" (watch out how the guitars are imitating bassoons, strings, drums, and cymbals!), French Pot-Pourri by Roland Dyens (expect musical and theatric surprises from the playful composer), Garcia's "The Sandman Cometh" featuring two dueling guitar orchestras, 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 Morricone's film music for the legendary Clint Eastwood movies.
PROGRAM
"Prelude and Fugue" (BWV 556 No. 4) by Johann Sebastian Bach
"Rondeau et Gigue" (from The Fairy Queen) by Henry Purcell
"Sugar Cane" by Scott Joplin
"French Pot-Pourri" by Roland Dyens
"Baião de Gude" by Paulo Bellinati
"Manha de Carnival" by Luis Bonfà
"The Sandman Cometh" (from Segni Meravigliosi: 4-Vespers No. 3) by Gerald Garcia
"Spaghetti Western Suite" by Ennio Morricone
"Peer Gynt" (Suite No. 1 Op. 46) by Edvard Grieg
"Scenes from Ellis Island" by Benjamin Verdery
Special thanks to David Kaun, Pastor Stan Abraham and the Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church for their support.
Featured in a Metro Santa Cruz article.
SANTA CRUZ GUITAR ORCHESTRA
(from left to right)
Christopher Motter
Bill Ruskin
Bruno Isaac Franco
Sean Pryce Hayward
Adam Wells
Kyle Reilly
Mesut Özgen
Devin Kosloff
John Patrick McShane
Jay Arms
Kevin McDowell
John Bower
Becky Lynn Roberts
Ronald Dunn
Guest Performers:
Guitar: Giacomo Fiore
Oboe: Karl Spiker
Flutes: Laura Serbus and Sevinç Özgen
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