The Atlanta Writers Club is having their November meeting on the 15th. Meetings include guest lecturers and workshops. Dr. David Bottoms, Poet Laureate of Georgia and mystery writer Dr. William Rawlings attended the October 18th meeting.
The AWC also holds critique groups in Decatur/Atlanta and surrounding areas.
General membership and critique group info: http://www.atlantawritersclub.org/
More about AWC events: http://www.atlantawritersclub.org/meetings.html
Q-Note Election Guide here
Monday, October 20, 2008
Friday, October 17, 2008
Poet Joy Harjo/Master Catawba Potter Monty Branham Workshop and Reading in Columbia
Poet Joy Harjo and potter Monty Branham will head Buried Within the Mound on October 24th. The interdisciplinary event includes a reading by Harjo and a presentation by Branham.
Workshop: 2pm USC Sumwalt Building (room 231)
Presentation: Columbia Museum of Art, corner of Hampton and Main
http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/poetry/events.htm
Workshop: 2pm USC Sumwalt Building (room 231)
Presentation: Columbia Museum of Art, corner of Hampton and Main
http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/poetry/events.htm
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Cellist Andrés Díaz Interview Below
By Tiffany Brand
The USC Symphony Orchestra will launch its second performance of the season on Tuesday, Oct. 21, at the Kroger Center. The concert will feature Carl Maria von Weber’s Der Freischütz Overture, Felix Mendelssohn’s “Scottish” Symphony No. 3 in A Minor and Franz Haydn’s Cello Concerto in D Major, a brilliant piece that allows cellists to show their acumen in a dazzling solo passage defined by high octaves.Cellist Andrés Díaz will accompany the orchestra. A graduate of the New England Conservatory, he launched his career by winning the Naumburg International Cello Competition in 1986. His talent has taken him throughout the world, and he has performed with such renowned orchestras as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops and Russia’s Saratov Symphony.
Díaz has made several recordings with the Díaz Trio as well several solo recordings. His 2004 recording Music of Martinu, Lutoslawski and Rachmaninoff won the Classical Recording Foundation Award in 2003, and was a tribute to pianist Samuel Sanders, with whom he collaborated for many years. Free Times caught up with Díaz via phone on Oct. 13 after a rehearsal at the Lincoln Center in New York City.
FT: What is your favorite city to perform in?
Andrés Díaz: My favorite city so far is Moscow. I like that classical music in Europe is like pop music here — it’s popular. You can’t find a place to stand at a classical concert in Russia. If there’s seating for 3,000, there are 5,000 people stuffed into the hall. People are practically hanging off chandeliers; it’s pretty exciting.
FT: What do you most like about playing Haydn’s Cello Concerto in D major?
AD: It’s a spectacular work. Haydn had a great sense of humor, but he could be very serious as well. [I like] the long lines and the interplay between the cello and the orchestra is absolutely amazing.
FT: I see that you often performed with pianist Samuel Sanders as well as [with other pianists]. What draws you to work that feature cello/piano accompaniments?
AD: The piano and cello are very different instruments. As much as pianists hate me to say it, it’s a percussion instrument, a hammer hits the string. Then there’s the lyricism of sustained sound that the cello has, it’s an incredible blend of sounds. I love playing with the piano. Sam Sanders [who died in 1998] was a close friend of mine, we played 15 years together and had a great working relationship, did a lot of recordings.
FT: You play a great variety of works, from both classical and modern composers. Who is your favorite composer?
AD: Beethoven. I know I’m supposed to say Bach, but, if I was on an island and had to pick music to listen to for the rest of time, it would be Beethoven. He has a style that is like no one else, his mastery of instruments he wrote for and the rhythms he used. Beethoven used small amounts of information to create larger works: there are five Beethoven sonatas with three written variations to them. He could be strict, yet at times there is an incredible beauty and deepness [to his work].
FT: You were recently appointed head of the strings department at Southern Methodist University. What do you believe is the most important lesson that you can instill in your students about music, performance and art?
AD: To find a deep meaning and understanding of what music is, to interpret music, a language without words. At any point you can start a career and continue in it without getting any better. I want to instill in them the desire to work hard.
The performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. Advance tickets are available at the Carolina Coliseum box office, by phone at 251-2222 or online at capitoltickets.com. There will be a free pre-concert lecture at 6:45 pm with Maestro Neil Casey, assistant conductor for the symphony. Tickets will also be available in the Koger Center lobby starting at 6:30 p.m.
The article can also be found here
More about Díaz : http://www.andresdiaz.com/
Also: I'm in the process of turning 2006-7 and early 2008 articles into files that I can upload. Bear with me :)
The USC Symphony Orchestra will launch its second performance of the season on Tuesday, Oct. 21, at the Kroger Center. The concert will feature Carl Maria von Weber’s Der Freischütz Overture, Felix Mendelssohn’s “Scottish” Symphony No. 3 in A Minor and Franz Haydn’s Cello Concerto in D Major, a brilliant piece that allows cellists to show their acumen in a dazzling solo passage defined by high octaves.Cellist Andrés Díaz will accompany the orchestra. A graduate of the New England Conservatory, he launched his career by winning the Naumburg International Cello Competition in 1986. His talent has taken him throughout the world, and he has performed with such renowned orchestras as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops and Russia’s Saratov Symphony.
Díaz has made several recordings with the Díaz Trio as well several solo recordings. His 2004 recording Music of Martinu, Lutoslawski and Rachmaninoff won the Classical Recording Foundation Award in 2003, and was a tribute to pianist Samuel Sanders, with whom he collaborated for many years. Free Times caught up with Díaz via phone on Oct. 13 after a rehearsal at the Lincoln Center in New York City.
FT: What is your favorite city to perform in?
Andrés Díaz: My favorite city so far is Moscow. I like that classical music in Europe is like pop music here — it’s popular. You can’t find a place to stand at a classical concert in Russia. If there’s seating for 3,000, there are 5,000 people stuffed into the hall. People are practically hanging off chandeliers; it’s pretty exciting.
FT: What do you most like about playing Haydn’s Cello Concerto in D major?
AD: It’s a spectacular work. Haydn had a great sense of humor, but he could be very serious as well. [I like] the long lines and the interplay between the cello and the orchestra is absolutely amazing.
FT: I see that you often performed with pianist Samuel Sanders as well as [with other pianists]. What draws you to work that feature cello/piano accompaniments?
AD: The piano and cello are very different instruments. As much as pianists hate me to say it, it’s a percussion instrument, a hammer hits the string. Then there’s the lyricism of sustained sound that the cello has, it’s an incredible blend of sounds. I love playing with the piano. Sam Sanders [who died in 1998] was a close friend of mine, we played 15 years together and had a great working relationship, did a lot of recordings.
FT: You play a great variety of works, from both classical and modern composers. Who is your favorite composer?
AD: Beethoven. I know I’m supposed to say Bach, but, if I was on an island and had to pick music to listen to for the rest of time, it would be Beethoven. He has a style that is like no one else, his mastery of instruments he wrote for and the rhythms he used. Beethoven used small amounts of information to create larger works: there are five Beethoven sonatas with three written variations to them. He could be strict, yet at times there is an incredible beauty and deepness [to his work].
FT: You were recently appointed head of the strings department at Southern Methodist University. What do you believe is the most important lesson that you can instill in your students about music, performance and art?
AD: To find a deep meaning and understanding of what music is, to interpret music, a language without words. At any point you can start a career and continue in it without getting any better. I want to instill in them the desire to work hard.
The performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. Advance tickets are available at the Carolina Coliseum box office, by phone at 251-2222 or online at capitoltickets.com. There will be a free pre-concert lecture at 6:45 pm with Maestro Neil Casey, assistant conductor for the symphony. Tickets will also be available in the Koger Center lobby starting at 6:30 p.m.
The article can also be found here
More about Díaz : http://www.andresdiaz.com/
Also: I'm in the process of turning 2006-7 and early 2008 articles into files that I can upload. Bear with me :)
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