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РусскийThe Anthology of Russian Romance at Strathmore
Friday, May 13, 2016
Friday, May 13th, 2016 at 8 pm at Strathmore Manson
Baritone Peter Slutsky is performing the “Anthology of Russian Romances” in the ensemble with the piano, bayan (Russian button accordion), and the guitar.
Today we present program called “The Dialogue” for a voice and guitar. Arrangements by Anna Kusner.
The romances are over 200 years old, yet they are alive and loved today even more than ever. Why? Where is the thread which connects our modern style of thinking and the past centuries style of living? Today’s arrangements are attempting to lift the veil and penetrate through our modern musical experience to the emotions of the Old Russian romances…
The singers say: it is easier to sing the whole opera than to sing in one concert several short pieces, songs, romances. This is because each song, each romance is a whole life story. It’s a story that goes from the beginning to the end in a very short period of time of about five minutes. During this time the performer is re-living the whole period of the heroes’ life. The instrumental part includes not just the accompaniment: each dramatic change of the story goes through the instrumental interlude. Suddenly, our mood changes, bringing our mind to the recent memories, to our past… and to the different parts of the world: Latin America, Italy, Brazil, Venezuela… All of a sudden we can hear the dramatic inclusions: the prelude of Brazilian composer Villa Lobos, or Venezuela' Waltz of Latin-American composer Antonio Lauro, or we recognize the song by Luiz Bonfa “The Morning of the Carnival” (“Manhã de Carnaval”) from the movie “The Black Orpheus”; Anna Kusner added Jazz harmonies, and the rhythms of Bosa-Nova, and the Brazilian style “shoro”… In the concert you will hear the compositions andarrangements of the two founders of great Russian guitar “Schools”: Orehov and Ivanov-Kramskoy.
Mr. Peter Slutsky, baritone, graduated from the Igumnoff College of Music in Moscow, Russia. He came to US in early 1991 and resided in Baltimore, where in time he founded the first Russian Theater (Russian Amateur Drama Theater) where he performed as an actor and a producer till 1996, creating numerous plays by the famous Russian dissident writers (A. Galich, V. Vysotskiy, etc.) It was in US that he took an extensive vocal operatic training and has become an active recitalist and interpreter of Russian music. On stage Peter has created unforgettable images of Germont (“La Traviata”), Figaro (“Marriage of Figaro”), Belcore (“Elixir of Love”), Tevye (“Fiddler on the roof”) and many more. He is known for outstanding acting abilities, distinctive musical identity and unique color beauty of his voice. Peter has pioneered with the “New Russian Theatre” Company, Maryland to perform in the adaptations of M. Glinka’s “Ruslan and Lyudmila”, and A. Markov’s “Queen Ester”. For some years Peter directed and presented New Year shows at the Russian Embassy in Washington for English-speaking kids. His recitalist activity has taken him to many venues and music festivals all along the East Coast. Peter has always been interested in preserving and popularizing the style of Russian romantic song (romance), where he is looking for combining the originality with a new blend of music, poetry and instruments.
Mrs. Anna Kusner, classical guitarist. born in Moscow, Russia. Graduated from The State Gnessin College of Music in Moscow with the degree in guitar performance. For several years had been working in the Philharmonic of Moscow in duet with the soloist of The Bolshoi Theater Natalya Novoselova performing romances and songs. In 1995 Anna Kusner graduated from the Academy of Musica in Jerusalem. Since then she has been performing with several chamber orchestras and musical ensembles, on Israeli Radio and TV, as well as in different music festvals. She has recorded 16 CDs. For 20 years Anna Kusner was teaching classical guitar at the Conservatory of Haifa, The Conservatory of Nesher,, at The School for the Arts “Reut”, The State Philharmonic “Omanut Le Am”, and at The University of Tel-Aviv “Bar Ilan”.
Mrs. Nonna Kaler-Slutsky - the musician of multiple fields - pianist, conductor, teacher, singer, and narrator of the concert series “East-West Musicales” (“EWM”) from 2009. She is the Artistic director and a founder of both “EWM” and the “New Opera Theater with puppets”. From 1993 to 2009 Mrs. Kaler-Slutsky was the director and a teacher at the “Piano Performance School of Music”. She worked at Peabody Conservatory of JHU, Baltimore School for the Arts, UMBS, CCBC as a professor of the piano performance and as an accompanist. For the past 7 years she hosted, performed, and narrated about 70 concerts. The guests of the series were all distinguished musicians well recognized in US as well as abroad. Among them the pianists Anna Balakerskaia, Alon Goldstein, and Ivan Moshchuk, violinists Ilya Kaler, Mark Cheikhet, and Zino Bogachek, singers Michail Svetlov, Peter Slutsky, Olga Orlovskaya, cellists Amit Peled, Borislav Strulev, to name a few; Jazz musicians included Sharon Clark (voice), Victor Dvoskin (bass), Steve Rudolph (piano), Seth Kibel (Clarinet/sax/flute), Vladimir Fridman (guitar) and many more. Nonna Kaler-Slutsky immigrated from Moscow, Russia in 1991 where she graduated from The State Gnessin College of Music and Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in Moscow, worked at the Bolshoi and performed at some of the best venues in Russia.She is married, has 2 children and resides in Maryland.
Tickets $30.00 For tickets reservation and questions please e-mail at ewmusicales@gmail.com
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