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Our Fall concert was

Guitar !!

and featured:

Michael Bautista guitar
Diana Tucker flute
Kathleen Nitz Kasdorf soprano voice

Saturday October 29, 2005
at 8 p.m.
Palo Alto Art Center

Embarcadero and Newell, Palo Alto

Guitar !!
John Beeman      Adagio and Dance, for flute and guitar
Nancy Bloomer Deussen      The Encounter, for flute and guitar
Steve Ettinger      Hannah’s Song, for flute and guitar
Lorie Griswold      Songs of Desolation, for soprano, flute and guitar
1. Ballad
2. The Useless Wait
3. To See Him Again

this is the garden, words by e. e. cummings

Carolyn Hawley      Quartet #2 for oboe or flute, guitar, cello and harpsichord or piano
Movement 2.
Ken Takara      Dreamscape II – Three Movements for guitar and flute
1. Allegro assai
2. Adagio
3. Adagio – Allegro assai
Dale Victorine      Sonata for flute and guitar, Op. 88
1. Andante con moto
2. Andante
3. Allegretto
... plus music by the following composers ...
Roland Dyens     Homage a' Villa-Lobos
Andrew York     Sunburst
Edison Denisov     Sonata


Our late Spring concert was

C.P.E. in Concert

Featuring the members of our Composers Performance Ensemble:

Miles Graberpiano Kristina Andersonviolin
Kris Yenneycello Diana Tuckerflute and soprano sax
Kathleen Nitz Kasdorfsoprano voice 

Saturday June 4, 2005
at 8 p.m.
Lucy Stern Community Center ballroom

1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto

C.P.E. in Concert
Denes Agay      Rhapsody in Waltz Time, for alto sax and piano
Nurit Barlev      Rhythms of a Promised Land, for violin and piano
John Beeman      Elegy for Solo Cello
Joanne Carey      Solo La Sombra, for soprano, cello, piano
Adrienne Chum 
Student Competition Winner
    Memories, for Cello and Piano
Sondra Clark      South American Dances, for piano four-hands
Nancy Bloomer Deussen      Trio for violin, cello and piano
Lorie Griswold      The Prophet and Lullaby from Peer Gynt, for soprano and piano
Robert Arnold Hall      Improvisation III, for flute, soprano, piano
Carolyn Hawley      Six Haiku, for soprano and piano

Admission was: $15 general
  $10 students and seniors
For more information call (408) 269-2301
Tickets were available at the door


Our Spring concert was

Composers and Friends II

Sunday April 10, 2005
at 3 p.m.
Foothill Presbyterian Church

5301 McKee Road, San Jose, CA 95127

Composers and Friends II
Anne Baldwin      Szechuan Suite, for piano, movements 3-5
Nurit Barlev      Dorian Toccata, for piano
Sondra Clark      Island Delights, for piano
Nancy Bloomer Deussen      One of Nature’s Majesties, for clarinet, bassoon and piano
Ilya Dimov      Tango Forever, for violin, cello and piano
John Hersch      Piano Sonata No. 2, movement 2
Brian Holmes      Four excerpts from Amherst Requiem, for tenor and piano
Ken Takara      Two Songs, for violin and piano
Dale Victorine      Gilroy Rag, for piano

Admission: donation was suggested
For more information call (408) 269-2301
Tickets were available at the door


Our Winter concert was

Composers and Friends

Saturday February 12, 2005
at 8 p.m.
at the Palo Alto Cultural Center

(at Embarcadero and Newell)

Composers and Friends
Mark Alburger      Excerpts from the opera Flying Out the Mouth
Anne Baldwin      Szechuan Suite, for piano, movements 1 and 3
Nurit Barlev      Dorian Toccata, for piano
Sondra Clark      Island Delights, for piano
I'lana Cotton      Music for Midwinter, for piano
Herb Gellis      Scherzo Oblique, for oboe, bassoon and horn
Robert Arnold Hall      Three Songs for Mezzo and Harpsichord
John Hersh      Piano Sonata No. 2, movement 1

Admission was: $15 general
  $10 students and seniors
For more information call (408) 269-2301
Tickets were available at the door