Wow

At Guitar Center today (11/30) they are selling new Rogue brand mandolins for $39.99. 

IMSLP: free classical scores

Here is a link to thousands of free classical scores, all in the public domain:

http://imslp.org/

which stands for International Music Score Library Project.  Lots of useful stuff here.

Guitar-Cello Concert Nov 19 St Thomas University (St Paul)

If anyone wants advice about parking, I'll do my best to be helpful (or you can look for a map at http://www.stthomas.edu/)

-Ray: ray.e.artz@gmail.com, 612-616-0788

Arpeggione Duo to present guitar and cello 10^th

anniversary concert Nov. 19 at St. Thomas library

Christopher Kachian and Thomas Schönberg will perform at the O’Shaughnessy-Fry Library Center. It’s free and all are welcome.

St. Paul, Minn.  --  The Arpeggione Duo of guitarist Dr. Christopher Kachian and cellist Dr. Thomas Schönberg will perform a 7 p.m. concert Wednesday, Nov. 19, in the Great Hall, located on the second floor of O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center on the St. Paul campus of the University of St. Thomas.

The duo’s 10^th anniversary concert is free and open to the public; refreshments will be served. For information call(651) 962-5014.

They will perform the French Suite in G major by J.S. Bach, another French suite by Gabriel Faure and Maurice Ravel, and Hello Cello by Claude Gagnon. The duo also will premier a new work they commissioned: Campfire Songsby Michael Karmon.

The evening’s program is the same one the duo will perform on a November concert tour in Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota.

Schönberg and Kachian, who are educators as well as performers, formed the Arpeggione Duo after meeting at the Guitar Festival of Sollentuna, Sweden, in 2004.  They tour annually and have recorded four albums.

Schönberg is a native of Sweden and was accepted to the Royal Music Academy of Stockholm at age 13.  He received his doctorate at the University of Hartford, Conn., and is dean of the Lidingo School of Music in Sweden. He performs throughout Europe, Asia and the United States on a cello made around 1715 by Guarneri filius.

Kachian, whose doctorate is from the University of Minnesota, heads the Guitar Studies Program at St. Thomas and in 2011 was inducted into the renowned Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity. A champion of new music, he has commissioned and premiered more than 40 works for guitar. He has given more than 500 performances in Japan, China, Africa, Cuba, Costa Rica, Peru and throughout Europe and North America.

Kachian is a founding member of the Society for the Affectation of Baroque Music and also plays the blues harmonica.

Contacts: Jim Winterer, News Service

(651) 962-6404  jcwinterer@stthomas.edu
Julie Kimlinger, O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center

(651) 962-5014  jakimlinger@stthomas.edu

The Arpeggione Duo

The Arpeggione Duo presents a new and rare sound, that of two of the most ancient string instruments, the cello and the guitar.

The Arpeggione Duo marries the old with the new in its programs of music written in the 17th century to the present day. They specialize in elegant and evocative concert renditions and interpretations of folkloric musics of the world. Melding art music with the “music of the people” comprises the conviction of the Arpeggione Duo: to render the music of all composers, be they ancient or a in a premiere of a commission, accessible and to synchronize it all into an enjoyable event.

Both performers have decades-long world touring experience on every continent, hold doctorates in their instruments and are long time pedagogues but this is not their persona. Thomas and Chris are performers who project meaning by “narrating” with their approach to interpretation. Audiences regularly comment on how engaged they are with both the performance and the performers.