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"Canyengue, The Soul of Tango"
Wed., February 01, 2012 / 6:30 PM
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The term ‘Canyengue,’ pronounced “Ca-jen-geh,” refers to the early style of tango – raw, provocative, sensual – that developed on the streets of the poor neighborhoods of Buenos Aires in the 20s and 30s. Says Beiser, “Much like Swing in American music, Tango has evolved from a simple form of dance into a sophisticated and complex genre of music.” That tranformation is exemplified in this program, which centers on the work of Astor Piazzolla, who revolutionized the genre with his brilliant, classically-inspired compositions.
Ziegler was a member of Piazzolla's New Tango Quintet for ten years, and instrumental in refining the sound that elevated tango music from dance clubs to the concert hall. Ziegler carries that legacy forward in his own compelling music, which has propelled him to international prominence. Beiser, born in Israel to an Argentinian father and a French mother, grew up listening to tango; in 1999 she payed tribute to Piazzolla with her acclaimed recording Oblivión, with pianist Anthony de Mare.
“I grew up in an Argentinean Kibbutz in Israel,” says Beiser. “My father, a music lover and avid record collector, had a vast library of tango music, from street tangos to the more sophisticated Nuevo Tangos of Carlos Gardel and Astor Piazzolla. This music was my connection to my father's family and history in Argentina. Though we were in Israel, we would spend long weekends drinking Maté, grilling Asado [Argentinian barbecue], listening to Tango, and listening to my father's stories about Gauchos and riding horses in the Pampas. I love the immediacy, rawness, and earthiness of this music as well as its sensuality and melancholy.”
Along with Piazzolla classics like Libertango and Adíos Nonino, Beiser and Ziegler will perform some lesser-known works, including the propulsive and virtuosic Escualo, the stately Milonga Sin Palabras, and the Bach-inspired Fuga y Mysterio, all newly arranged by Ziegler for cello and piano. They will also play a selection of Ziegler’s compositions, including his evocative Milonga del Adios and his jazz-infused Places. In addition, Beiser will take the solo spotlight with a signature piece, Osvaldo Golijov’s Mariel.
This is a general admission event. Seating is limited and available on a first come, first seated basis. There is a two item minimum per person at all tables. Standing room is also available. We recommend arriving early.
LPR offers a membership program that guarantees members seating for future shows. Click here for more info.
Ziegler was a member of Piazzolla's New Tango Quintet for ten years, and instrumental in refining the sound that elevated tango music from dance clubs to the concert hall. Ziegler carries that legacy forward in his own compelling music, which has propelled him to international prominence. Beiser, born in Israel to an Argentinian father and a French mother, grew up listening to tango; in 1999 she payed tribute to Piazzolla with her acclaimed recording Oblivión, with pianist Anthony de Mare.
“I grew up in an Argentinean Kibbutz in Israel,” says Beiser. “My father, a music lover and avid record collector, had a vast library of tango music, from street tangos to the more sophisticated Nuevo Tangos of Carlos Gardel and Astor Piazzolla. This music was my connection to my father's family and history in Argentina. Though we were in Israel, we would spend long weekends drinking Maté, grilling Asado [Argentinian barbecue], listening to Tango, and listening to my father's stories about Gauchos and riding horses in the Pampas. I love the immediacy, rawness, and earthiness of this music as well as its sensuality and melancholy.”
Along with Piazzolla classics like Libertango and Adíos Nonino, Beiser and Ziegler will perform some lesser-known works, including the propulsive and virtuosic Escualo, the stately Milonga Sin Palabras, and the Bach-inspired Fuga y Mysterio, all newly arranged by Ziegler for cello and piano. They will also play a selection of Ziegler’s compositions, including his evocative Milonga del Adios and his jazz-infused Places. In addition, Beiser will take the solo spotlight with a signature piece, Osvaldo Golijov’s Mariel.
This is a general admission event. Seating is limited and available on a first come, first seated basis. There is a two item minimum per person at all tables. Standing room is also available. We recommend arriving early.
LPR offers a membership program that guarantees members seating for future shows. Click here for more info.
Artists
Maya Beiser
Described by the The New Yorker as a "cello goddess" and by the San Francisco Chronicle as "the queen of post-minimalist cello," Maya Beiser has captivated audiences worldwide with her virtuosity, eclectic repertoire, and relentless quest to redefine her instrument's boundaries.
Over the past decade, she has created new repertoire for the cello, commissioning and performing many works written for her by today's leading composers. She has collaborated with composers Tan Dun, Brian Eno, Philip Glass, Osvaldo Golijov, Steve Reich, Louis Andriessen and Mark O'Connor among many others. Maya is a featured performer on the world's most prestigious stages, having appeared recently at the Sydney Opera House, New York City's Lincoln Center, the World Expo in Nagoya, Japan, and in Barcelona, Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai, and San Francisco.
Maya has conceived and produced her critically acclaimed multimedia concerts including "World To Come" which premiered as part of the inaugural season of Carnegie Hall's new venue, Zankel Hall. Highlights of her "World To Come" included performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Royce Hall in Los Angeles, the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, the Mondavi Performing Arts Center and the Ravinia Festival in Chicago. She has premiered her new project, "Almost Human" at Carnegie' Zankel Hall to a sold out house on March 2006, a concert chosen by The New York Times critics as among the "Best of 2006". Highlight of the past season included her debut performance at London's Barbican Hall, return appearances at the Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, as well as concerts at major venues in Atlanta, Chicago, Minneapolis and Seattle.
In the past year Maya has been a featured soloist on several film soundtracks. Collaborating with renowned film composer James Newton Howard, she is the featured soloist on M. Night Shyamalan's "The Happening", Denzel Washington's "The Great Debaters", and Edward Zwick's "Blood Diamond."
Maya's performance of Steve Reich's Cello Counterpoint is featured on the Nonesuch CD "You Are," which was chosen by The New York Times as one of the top albums of 2005. She is also the soloist on the Sony Classical CD release of Tan Dun's "Water Passion," and has performed his Academy Award-winning score Crouching Tiger Concerto with orchestras around the globe.
Maya's recent appearances with orchestras included the St. Paul Camber Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Sydney Symphony, and the China Philharmonic among many others. She has released four solo CD's with Koch Entertainment label including "Oblivion", "Kinship", "World To Come" and "Almost Human".
Raised on a kibbutz in Israel by her French mother and Argentinean father, Maya Beiser is a graduate of Yale University. Her major teachers were Aldo Parisot, Uzi Weizel, Alexander Schneider, and Isaac Stern. Maya was the founding cellist of the new music ensemble, the Bang on a Can All-Stars.
Photo Credit: Merri Cyr
Over the past decade, she has created new repertoire for the cello, commissioning and performing many works written for her by today's leading composers. She has collaborated with composers Tan Dun, Brian Eno, Philip Glass, Osvaldo Golijov, Steve Reich, Louis Andriessen and Mark O'Connor among many others. Maya is a featured performer on the world's most prestigious stages, having appeared recently at the Sydney Opera House, New York City's Lincoln Center, the World Expo in Nagoya, Japan, and in Barcelona, Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai, and San Francisco.
Maya has conceived and produced her critically acclaimed multimedia concerts including "World To Come" which premiered as part of the inaugural season of Carnegie Hall's new venue, Zankel Hall. Highlights of her "World To Come" included performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Royce Hall in Los Angeles, the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, the Mondavi Performing Arts Center and the Ravinia Festival in Chicago. She has premiered her new project, "Almost Human" at Carnegie' Zankel Hall to a sold out house on March 2006, a concert chosen by The New York Times critics as among the "Best of 2006". Highlight of the past season included her debut performance at London's Barbican Hall, return appearances at the Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, as well as concerts at major venues in Atlanta, Chicago, Minneapolis and Seattle.
In the past year Maya has been a featured soloist on several film soundtracks. Collaborating with renowned film composer James Newton Howard, she is the featured soloist on M. Night Shyamalan's "The Happening", Denzel Washington's "The Great Debaters", and Edward Zwick's "Blood Diamond."
Maya's performance of Steve Reich's Cello Counterpoint is featured on the Nonesuch CD "You Are," which was chosen by The New York Times as one of the top albums of 2005. She is also the soloist on the Sony Classical CD release of Tan Dun's "Water Passion," and has performed his Academy Award-winning score Crouching Tiger Concerto with orchestras around the globe.
Maya's recent appearances with orchestras included the St. Paul Camber Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Sydney Symphony, and the China Philharmonic among many others. She has released four solo CD's with Koch Entertainment label including "Oblivion", "Kinship", "World To Come" and "Almost Human".
Raised on a kibbutz in Israel by her French mother and Argentinean father, Maya Beiser is a graduate of Yale University. Her major teachers were Aldo Parisot, Uzi Weizel, Alexander Schneider, and Isaac Stern. Maya was the founding cellist of the new music ensemble, the Bang on a Can All-Stars.
Photo Credit: Merri Cyr
Pablo Ziegler
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Latin Grammy-winning pianist, composer and arranger Pablo Ziegler artfully blends classic tango with elements of jazz, adding a new voice to the rich tango lexicon. After collaborating with tango grand-maestro Astor Piazzolla as the pianist in Piazzolla’s quintet for over a decade, Ziegler has led his own groups for over 20 years, refining and reimagining the bounds of the New Tango tradition. Howard Reich of The Chicago Times writes, “There’s no question that Ziegler takes the tango to levels of sophistication and refinement probably undreamed of by Piazzolla”, and Eric Salzman of Stereo Review writing of Ziegler’s CD, Tango Romance, affirmed that the CD “solidifies his (Ziegler’s) claim to be the outstanding representative of the nuevo tango in his generation.”
Satoshi Takeishi, percussion
Satoshi Takeishi, drummer, percussionist, and arranger is a native of Mito, Japan. He studied music at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. While at Berklee he developed an interest in the music of South America and went to live in Colombia following the invitation of a friend. He spent four years there and forged many musical and personal relationships. One of the projects he worked on while in Colombia was ‘Macumbia’ with composer/arranger Francisco Zumaque in which traditional, jazz and classical music were combined. With this group he performed with the Bogota symphony orchestra to do a series of concerts honoring the music of the most popular composer in Colombia, Lucho Bermudes. In 1986 he returned to Miami, U.S. where he began working as an arranger/producer as well as a performer.
In 1987 he produced ‘Morning Ride’ for jazz flutist Nestor Torres on Polygram Records. His interest expanded to the rhythms and melodies of the Middle East where he studied and performed with Armenian-American oud master Joe Zeytoonian. Since moving to New York in 1991 he has performed and recorded in vast variety of genre, from world music, jazz, contemporary classical music to experimental electronic music with musicians such as Ray Barretto, Carlos ‘Patato’ Valdes, Eliane Elias, Marc Johnson, Eddie Gomez, Randy Brecker, Dave Liebman, Anthony Braxton, Mark Murphy, Herbie Mann, Paul Winter Consort, Rabih Abu Khalil, Erik Friedlander, Ned Rothenberg, MIchael Attias, Shoko Nagai, Paul Giger, Toshiko Akiyoshi Big Band, Ying String Quartet, Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, Dhafer Youssef, Lalo Schifrin and Pablo Ziegler to name a few. He continues to explore multi-cultural, electronics and improvisational music with local musicians and composers in New York.
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In 1987 he produced ‘Morning Ride’ for jazz flutist Nestor Torres on Polygram Records. His interest expanded to the rhythms and melodies of the Middle East where he studied and performed with Armenian-American oud master Joe Zeytoonian. Since moving to New York in 1991 he has performed and recorded in vast variety of genre, from world music, jazz, contemporary classical music to experimental electronic music with musicians such as Ray Barretto, Carlos ‘Patato’ Valdes, Eliane Elias, Marc Johnson, Eddie Gomez, Randy Brecker, Dave Liebman, Anthony Braxton, Mark Murphy, Herbie Mann, Paul Winter Consort, Rabih Abu Khalil, Erik Friedlander, Ned Rothenberg, MIchael Attias, Shoko Nagai, Paul Giger, Toshiko Akiyoshi Big Band, Ying String Quartet, Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, Dhafer Youssef, Lalo Schifrin and Pablo Ziegler to name a few. He continues to explore multi-cultural, electronics and improvisational music with local musicians and composers in New York.
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music of Astor Piazzolla & more
The year 2012 marks the 20th anniversary of Astor Piazzolla's passing. In many ways, he is a forerunner to the current generation of composers who are working to fuse popular and classical styles and techniques. Born in 1921 in Mar del Plata, Argentina, he grew up in New York City. He started lessons on the bandoneon (Argentinian accordion) at the age of eight; a few years later, he began piano studies with Bela Wilda, a protégé of Rachmaninoff, who introduced him to Bach’s music. He returned to his native country in 1936, and at seventeen, launched his professional career by playing in tango orchestras. Three years later, he began composition lessons with Alberto Ginastera. His efforts to introduce the harmonic complexities of classical music into the tango were met with some hostility, as were concert works incorporating the bandoneon, then considered a street instrument.
In the early 1950s, he set aside the tango to compose concert works, going to Paris in 1954 to study with Nadia Boulanger. With her encouragement, he returned to the tango, and upon his return to Argentina, expanded the genre in ever-more creative and adventurous directions, experimenting with harmony, form, and instrumentation. By the time he passed in 1992, he had composed film soundtracks, chamber and orchestral scores, and popular hits. His collaborations included projects with Gary Burton, Kronos Quartet, Gerry Mulligan, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Lalo Schifrin.
In the early 1950s, he set aside the tango to compose concert works, going to Paris in 1954 to study with Nadia Boulanger. With her encouragement, he returned to the tango, and upon his return to Argentina, expanded the genre in ever-more creative and adventurous directions, experimenting with harmony, form, and instrumentation. By the time he passed in 1992, he had composed film soundtracks, chamber and orchestral scores, and popular hits. His collaborations included projects with Gary Burton, Kronos Quartet, Gerry Mulligan, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Lalo Schifrin.