Santa Cruz
Guitar Orchestra
The Santa Cruz Guitar Orchestra presents the 2011-12 season finale concert with an exciting program of music from Baroque and traditional South American to ragtime and swing jazz styles played by a symphony of guitars! Directed by guitarist/composer Mesut Özgen, the SCGO repertoire includes a wide range of works. Among the highlights in the program are Brazilian composer Heitor VIlla-Lobos’s beautiful Aria from the Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, Mark Houghton’s “Twangology” inspired by the music of Django Reinhardt, Benjamin Verdery’s “Scenes from Ellis Island” featuring surprise guest musicians in the exciting finale with a special rhythmic pattern from traditional East Indian music, and the swing jazz master Dorado Schmitt’s “Tchavolo Swing” from the famous movie about Gypsy musicians: “Latcho Drom.” Among the guest musicians are soprano Sheila Willey Hannon, guitarist Kenny Hill, violinist Aimee Hamel, and Paul Mehling, the lead guitarist and founder of the legendary swing jazz band “Hot Club of San Francisco.”
Program
“Carnavalito” traditional South American
“Lute Concerto in D, RV 93” by Antonio Vivaldi
“Sugar Cane” by Scott Joplin
“Romanian Dance No. 1, op. 8a” by Bela Bartok
“Rumba” by Stepan Rak
“Twangology” by Mark Houghton
“Tchavolo Swing” by Dorado Schmitt
“Contrapunctus No. 1” (from the Art of Fugue, arr. M. Özgen) by J.S. Bach
“Rondeau et Gigue” (from The Fairy Queen) by Henry Purcell
“Suite Française” by Sébastien Vachez
“Mister Ioso” and “Rumba Marica” by Thierry Tisserand
“Aria (from Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, arr. M. Özgen) by Heitor Villa-Lobos
“Scenes from Ellis Island” by Benjamin Verdery
Santa Cruz Guitar Orchestra:
Guitars: Jay Arms, John Bower, Andy Dalton, Sean Hayward, Maya Khayat, Ziad Khayat, Michael Knorr, Devin Kosloff, Roger Mawer, Weston Mossman, Kyle Reilly, Alexei Shatz
Quena: Alice Gallup, Violin: Aimee Hamel, Bass: Clark Straub, Sopranos: Sheila Willey Hannon, Doanna Weissgerber, Swing Jazz Guitar Solo: Paul Mehling, Classical Guitar Solo: Kenny Hill, Electric Guitar Solo: Sean Hayward
Conductor: Mesut Özgen
The SCGO presents the 2011-12 season finale concert with an exciting program of music from Baroque and traditional South American to ragtime and swing jazz styles played by a symphony of guitars!
Scenes from Guitar Island
Monday, May 21, 2012 at 7:30 pm
UCSC Music Center Recital Hall
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Admission: $23 general, $20 seniors, $16 students
Tickets are available at
UCSC Ticket Office: 831-459-2159 / Theatre Arts UCSC Campus (hours: Tue-Sat 12-4 pm)
Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium Box Office: 831-420-5260 / 307 Church Street, downtown Santa Cruz (hours: M-F 11 am-6 pm, S-S 10 am-1:30 pm)
Online at santacruztickets.com and at the door.
Doors will open at 7:00 pm and the show will start at 7:30 pm.
Santa Cruz Guitar Orchestra Spring Concert 2012
directed by Mesut Özgen
Acknowledgements
Special thanks to the Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church, Pastor Stan Abraham, Abigail Meloche, Kenny Hill, David Kaun, Meg Sandow, Susie Bower, Shelley and Daryl Mossman, Matthew Grasso, Amy Beal, and Linda Burman-Hall for supporting the Santa Cruz Guitar Orchestra.
