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  • PROGRAM NOTES: MILOŠ AND AVI AVITAL

    PROGRAM NOTES: MILOŠ AND AVI AVITAL

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    Johann Sebastian Bach English Suite No. 2 in A minor: Prelude | Well-Tempered Clavier 1: Fugue in C minor | Concerto in D minor (after Marcello): Adagio | Partita No. 2 in C minor: Capriccio In Bach’s time, the instrument closest to the sound world of the guitar and mandolin was the lute. Bach wrote…

  • PROGRAM NOTES: DOVER QUARTET & AVI AVITAL

    PROGRAM NOTES: DOVER QUARTET & AVI AVITAL

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    Sulkhan Tsintsadze Six Miniatures for String Quartet and Mandolin (arr. Ohan Ben-Ari)  The Soviets promoted the ideal of music rooted in the traditions of their native soil and in this regard it would be hard to find a composer more congenial to Soviet ideals than Sulkhan Tsintsadze, one of the leading composers of the Soviet…

  • PROGRAM NOTES: AVI AVITAL

    PROGRAM NOTES: AVI AVITAL

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    Avi Avital: Kedma “To open the concert, I have chosen to perform a composition- improvisation of my own. Unlike a composer’s relationship to an instrument and to a musical form, the performer’s relationship to his instrument, as in this case, is expressed in a frequent dialogue to “get to know” each other better. This improvisation,…