SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY
Huntsville
Celebrating the
Hispanic Heritage Month
Proudly presents the Spanish Maestro
Francesc de Paula Soler
The Poet of the Guitar
with
The Golden Polyphemus
From the Spanish and Latin American guitar to the
jazz, swing, blues, be-bop and contemporary music
…… Auditorium
…..day, ……....th, 2007
.:00 .m.
co-sponsored by:
&
Maestro Soler
He has recorded the CD Guitar Collection of Francesc de Paula Soler for Mel Bay Publications (US), and has published with Mel Bay and “Casa Beethoven Publicacions”, “Catalana d’Edicions Musicals”, “Clivis Publicacions”, “Editorial Tenora” and “Editorial Boileau” (Spain).
He has received numerous prizes and been conferred many awards, including the title of the Honorary Citizen of Dallas (1988); Medal of St. Vladimir from the Russian Orthodox Church (1988); Plaque of the Catalan Catholic Church Council (1995); Membership in the Royal Order of Christopher Columbus (1999); the Golden Key and Honorary Citizen of the city of Corpus Christi, Texas (2000); Medal and Diploma of the “US Military Academy of West Point” (2001); Tribute to Francesc de Paula Soler of the US House of Representatives (2001, 2002 and 2004); Honorary Membership in the “Viva la Musica Club”, Washington State (2003) and Honorary Membership in the Spain Association of the Pacific Northwest (2007), in recognition for his artistic merits.
The Washington Post provided the following review: “Soler showed himself to be unusually sensitive to color and the rhapsodic rise and fall of the phrases” adding: ”he played dazzling solos with his left hand on the fingerboard, unleashed a battery of right-hand percussive effects on the body of the guitar, and engaged in some creative pitch-bending on blues-tinged melodies”
Known as "The Poet of the Guitar", Maestro Soler’s wide international activity as a performer has brought critics to hail him as one of the most notable names of the guitar world.
Website: http://www.telefonica.net/web2/fpsoler
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
The recital is divided into two parts: in the first the artist presents, like a musical rainbow, some of the most representative composers of the Spanish and Latin American guitar. The second gives the audience a panorama of the contemporary music for this instrument.
The program begins with “Sueño” (Dream), when Francisco Tárrega (1852-1909) uses the difficult trémolo technique; this composition is one of the best examples of Tárrega's Romantic aesthetics. Then, the great composer Heitor Villa-lobos (1887-1959), with his suggestive “Preludio nº 3” (homage to J.S. Bach) continuing with the inspired “Estudio de Concierto nº 11” one of his most genuine works for the guitar. Opens the next group, the sensitive piece by Manuel María Ponce (1882-1948) “Scherzino Mexicano”, continuing with the tango-style piece, “Adiós Nonino” by Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992), originally written for the Quinteto Astor Piazzolla and dedicated to his father. The festive and rhythmic “Batucada” by Isaías Savio (1900-1977), ends this group. Opens the next section the warm nana (lullaby) “Drume Negrita” by Eliseo Grenet (1893-1950), followed by the popular dance, of Incan origin from the Bolivian altiplano, “Huayno”, where the guitar tries to imitate the charango, and ends this section the popular “Chopí”, from the suite “Las Tres Palomas” by Pablo Escobar (1900-19??), a striking combination of music from the harp and Paraguayan dance.
The second part begins with the Paraguayan Agustín Pío Barrios “Indio Mangore” (1871-1942), with his emotive “Andante religioso” from “La Catedral”; by English composer Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), the March-Like from his Nocturnal, set of variations about the Dowland’s First Book of Songs or Ayres of Four Parts (1597). Fruit of an original inspiration, the Prelude & Air from the “Quatre pieces breves”, by Swiss composer Frank Martin (1890 1974), is based on ancient popular French dances. Ends this section the Pole–French composer Alexander Tansman (1897-1986), experimenting the baroque style in his contemporary “Danza Pomposa”. Later a jazz-like composition by English composer John William Duarte (1919-2004), “Sua Cosa”, written in the Wes Montgomery style, followed by “La Salle de Billard” from “Le Pavillon de Banlieu” where the French composer Olivier Bensa (b. 1951), tries to imitate the pool game (Pay attention to the last ball). This group ends with the “Danza” by Antonio Ruiz-Pipó (1934-1997), from his “Canción y Danza nº 1”. The next group opens with the popular hymn They Must Know by American composer Harry Dixon Loes (1892-1965). Then, Mill Grove Farm, by Italian guitarist and composer Giovanni Unterberger (b. 1949), a piece that brings to mind the purest bebop style, ending this group the swing “Bluefinger” by American composer Jerry Reed (b. 1937) who drew his inspiration from Chet Atkins “Alone”. The program ends with a piece by Soler (b. 1949), Lady M, Little Rolling Stone, where the composer combines the classic stereotypes of Blues and Rock, with the newest and most surprising effects that can be drawn from the guitar.
From the Spanish classical guitar to the Latin American popular guitar
SUEÑO ………............................……....Francisco Tárrega (Spain)
PRELUDE (# 3) & STUDY (# 11)…....Heitor Villa-Lobos (Brazil)
SCHERZINO MEXICANO (**)..........Manuel M. Ponce (Mexico)
ADIÓS NONINO (*)..............................Astor Piazzolla (Argentina)
BATUCADA (**)...........................................Isaías Savio (Uruguay)
DRUME NEGRITA (**)………...…...…..….Eliseo Grenet (Cuba)
HUAYNO (**)........................................................Popular (Bolivia)
CHOPÍ (**)...............................................Pablo Escobar (Paraguay)
Intermission
Panorama of the Contemporary guitar
ANDANTE RELIGIOSO (From La Catedral)……..….Agustín Barrios
MARCH-LIKE (From the Nocturnal)………...............Benjamin Britten
PRELUDE & AIR (From the Quatre Pieces Breves)………..Frank Martin
DANZA POMPOSA.........……..…..................Alexander Tansman
SUA COSA (**)......................…........................…..John W. Duarte
(In memoriam Wes Montgomery)
LA SALLE DE BILLARD (From Le Pavillon de Banlieu)…Olivier Bensa
DANZA (**)……….......................................…..Antonio Ruiz-Pipó
THEY MUST KNOW (*).………………...…... Harry Dixon Loes
MILL GROVE FARM (**)..........................Giovanni Unterberger
BLUEFINGER ……………………………..…………..Jerry Reed
LADY M, LITTLE ROLLING STONE..Francesc de Paula Soler
Lady M
Little Rolling Stone
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* Transcription & ** Revision by: Francesc de Paula Soler
+ Published by: Editorial Boileau, Barcelona, Spain.
Guitar: Ignacio FLETA "The Golden Polyphemus”
Strings: G.H.S. (Vanguard & 2390)
GUITAR MUSIC COLLECTION
of
Francesc de Paula Soler
CASA BEETHOVEN PUBLICACIONS
Rambla de Sant Josep, 97, 08002 Barcelona, Spain
"JOGUINES"
(Toys, popular songs from Catalonia)
"COL.LECCIÓ PER A GUITARRA"
MARCH, J. K. MERTZ
MINUE IN G, M. CARCASSI
"LAGRIMA" (Preludio), F. TARREGA
"ADELITA" (Mazurca), F. TARREGA
STUDY in b, F. SORS
"ROMANCE", Anonymous
"BOURREE" (Suite in e), J.S. BACH
CATALANA D'EDICIONS MUSICALS
Via Laietana, 23, 1a, D, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
PAPAS' BLUES
EDITORIAL TENORA
Via Laietana, 23, 1a, D, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
“EL CANT DELS OCELLS”
CLIVIS PUBLICACIONS
Milà i Fontanals, 14-26, 3r, 9a, 08012 Barcelona, Spain
CONCERTO IN D, RV 93 (Guitar, Piano and Strings), A. VIVALDI
SOPRANOS AND TENORS SING THE GALILEO'S SALTARELLO
EDITORIAL BOILEAU
Provença, 287, 08037 Barcelona, Spain
"PETIT PRELUDI"
LADY M, LITTLE ROLLING STONE
MEL BAY PUBLICATIONS
GUITAR COLLECTION of Francesc de Paula Soler
(ISBN 0 - 7866 - 2470 - 1)
Ferdinando CARULLI: SICILIANA
Fernando SOR: THE FOUR NOTES
Fernando FERRANDIERE: "CONTRADANZA"
("De los Currutacos")
Anonymous: "MI FAVORITA"
Fernando SORS: "ANDANTE LARGO, OP. 5"
Anonymous: GREENSLEEVES
Gaspar SANZ: "PRELUDIO" (Suite in e)
Gaspar SANZ: "RICERCARE" ("Suite Española")
Anonymous: "LA ROMANESCA" (Dance, 16th c.)
Joao PERNAMBUCO: SOUNDS OF BELLS
Anonymous: IRISH MARCH (11th c.)
Amadeu VIVES: THE EMIGRANT ("L'Emigrant")
Catalonian Folk Song: THE SINGING OF THE BIRDS
Riddle of the Guitar
In the round
crossways,
Six maidens
are dancing.
Three of flesh
and three of silver.
Yesterday´s dreams haunt them
but they are held embraced
by a Golden Polyphemus:
¡The Guitar!
Adivinanza de la Guitarra
En la redonda
encrucijada
seis doncellas
bailan.
Tres de carne
y tres de plata.
Los sueños de ayer las buscan,
pero las tiene abrazadas
un Polifemo de Oro:
¡La Guitarra!
Federico García Lorca
Garcia Lorca, attributes to the guitar
occult powers,
and return again and again
in his poems
to the image of its strings
spread out like the arms
of Polyphemus,
waiting to trap our souls …
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