Recital Performance in Newton Highlands
Sunday August 28th the home of John and Bevie Bavicchi,
Newton Highlands
Attendees: Alex, Dev, Glenn, Martin and Terry
I arrived late at the T station in Newtown Highlands for a quick run through before the recital. Glenn, Terry, Dev and Alex were already there. We ran Homage, Asturias, Growing Circle, and BtA (which was not up performance that day).We all headed over to the Bavichhi’s. John is a teacher at Berkley and quite a Bartok expert! We met Jun with whom Glenn has been working and some of the other students and friends of Jun. Dev knew John and another student from Berkley who was there as an audient. We helped move furniture and then put our guitars and tuned up in the dinning room, for the green room.
Jun got things started; the turnout was a little less than expected. Glenn, David and Terry performed Glenn’s new piece (Terry and David just learning their parts that day) “Ides”. It was very different than the recording, much better live. Then there was a Russian woman, a friend of Jun’s , a painter, but played a Shumann piece and another
who’s composer I don’t remember. Then a student of Jun’s played a very complicated piece by Alban Berg
(It looked like the “Black Page”) Jun said it was just learned and would get better but I thought it was marvelous
atonal in parts yet parts that had an almost jazzy or “Gershwin” feel. A teacher of Jun’s played 4 pieces by Ravel she was very good, but I felt she seemed rushed and glad to get it over. We took a five minute intermission as it was hot in the house (hardly any windows open!) and came back for the second half. Jun played a lovely 4 part original composition about children in the afternoon, I really liked the last pieces about children watching the clouds and the last section a traditional Japanese song in the right hand and a boogie woogie baseline Then Glenn and Jun played “Freedom Jazz Dance” a jazz improv,. I wondered if Glenn was going to step out as Jun was such a talented player but about 2/3rds of the way through, Glenn did some really nice lead work.
The GCNE minus our leader, for the first time in performance, finished off the program. Glenn directed and we played :
Circulation (A Harmonic m)
Eye of the Needle
Hommage a JSB
Asturias
Growing Circle
Ending with Growing Circle was great, very up beat! The audience and the hosts were very complementary and gracious and we were treated to sushi, munchies and drinks after the performance. We stayed and had a good chat, were shown John’s homemade bar in the basement and then we bid adieu and headed for South Boston
Newton Highlands
Attendees: Alex, Dev, Glenn, Martin and Terry
I arrived late at the T station in Newtown Highlands for a quick run through before the recital. Glenn, Terry, Dev and Alex were already there. We ran Homage, Asturias, Growing Circle, and BtA (which was not up performance that day).We all headed over to the Bavichhi’s. John is a teacher at Berkley and quite a Bartok expert! We met Jun with whom Glenn has been working and some of the other students and friends of Jun. Dev knew John and another student from Berkley who was there as an audient. We helped move furniture and then put our guitars and tuned up in the dinning room, for the green room.
Jun got things started; the turnout was a little less than expected. Glenn, David and Terry performed Glenn’s new piece (Terry and David just learning their parts that day) “Ides”. It was very different than the recording, much better live. Then there was a Russian woman, a friend of Jun’s , a painter, but played a Shumann piece and another
who’s composer I don’t remember. Then a student of Jun’s played a very complicated piece by Alban Berg
(It looked like the “Black Page”) Jun said it was just learned and would get better but I thought it was marvelous
atonal in parts yet parts that had an almost jazzy or “Gershwin” feel. A teacher of Jun’s played 4 pieces by Ravel she was very good, but I felt she seemed rushed and glad to get it over. We took a five minute intermission as it was hot in the house (hardly any windows open!) and came back for the second half. Jun played a lovely 4 part original composition about children in the afternoon, I really liked the last pieces about children watching the clouds and the last section a traditional Japanese song in the right hand and a boogie woogie baseline Then Glenn and Jun played “Freedom Jazz Dance” a jazz improv,. I wondered if Glenn was going to step out as Jun was such a talented player but about 2/3rds of the way through, Glenn did some really nice lead work.
The GCNE minus our leader, for the first time in performance, finished off the program. Glenn directed and we played :
Circulation (A Harmonic m)
Eye of the Needle
Hommage a JSB
Asturias
Growing Circle
Ending with Growing Circle was great, very up beat! The audience and the hosts were very complementary and gracious and we were treated to sushi, munchies and drinks after the performance. We stayed and had a good chat, were shown John’s homemade bar in the basement and then we bid adieu and headed for South Boston
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