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Clark - Schuldmann DUO and All That JAZZ
- Sunday , March 22, 2009 @ 3p.m. in Tucson    
- Friday , April 3, 2009 @ 8p.m. in Scottsdale
a brief description

"The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always greater than its performance - whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being played."-André Previn



CS Duo/Ron ComptonBy popular audience request the founders of Chamber Music PLUS Southwest
end the season with a finale of works for cello and piano from the lighter side
of the repertoire.

Though Harry and Sanda  most often are associated with the romantic repertoire and have a great affinity for music composed by women, they have great addiction for the repertoire that often has been ignored in the concert hall, in recent history. The lighter side of classical, the transcriptions and the fabulous desert like offerings.

You will be entertained and mesmerized by the music, we promise.

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About the music
The program will feature music by Gershwin, Piazzolla and the Claude Bolling's Suite for Solo Cello and Jazz Piano Trio.
Some of the most beautiful melodies Gershwin wrote, and there are countless great tunes, without a doubt can be found in his songs. Harry and Sanda will feature some of the magnificent tunes including Bess you is My Woman and Summer Time Couple of Tangos by Piazzolla and the center piece of the program is the Suite by Claude Bolling.

After first winning world-acclaim as a jazz performer, pianist-arranger and conductor Claude Bolling wrote music for films and backed Brigitte Bardot, Sacha Distel, Juliette Greco and other vocalists in commercial recording sessions. Later still, however, he was to win even greater renown for some ingenious semi-classical jazz essays in cross-over. He wrote three other suites one for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio, Guitar and a Two Piano Jazz Suites.

Astor Piazzolla was born in Argentina in 1921 and became one of the major classical composers of that country. He became so besotted by the music of the South American dance, The Tango, that he destroyed his early works and devoted his life to writing music with that rhythm as its basis. He has developed this art to the point where it is difficult to detect the dance in his complex and strictly classical music. Outside of the South American continent his music was little known until the past decade, when a renewed interest in the dance, mainly through major exposure in the cinema, has taken his works back into the concert hall. Though there are examples of the dance used in its most basic and popular form, Piazzolla has composed most of his music for small chamber groups or solo instruments. Most is written in a very contemporary 20th century style, usually calling for virtuosity of performance.
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PerformersHarry
Sanda"Clark and Schuldmann have a way of digging into their material with a wholehearted
enthusiasm that is disarming. They are fine musicians with plenty of technical equipment
and they work together with as much rapport as could be asked."
The New York Times


Harry and Sanda came from two distant deserts and met in Austin, TX while studying  with their respective mentors: pianist Leonard Shure and cellist George Neikrug.
Music brought them together, and it remains their way of life. They started playing together at UT and never stopped. They started Chamber Music PLUS in Hartford, CT and have propelled the organization to a national, well respected and admired artists led organization.

They have a strong commitment to championing new works, creating original new concepts with a special affection for educating  at risk youth and championing womens' art.

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Performance details:
Details
Tucson
Scottsdale
Show Time:
3:00 p.m.
8:00p.m.
Venue:
Berger Performing Arts Center,
Kerr Cultural Center
Address (click address for map)

1200 West Speedway Blvd

6110 North Scottsdale Road

Individual Tickets
$35 with discounts to subscribers
$21, $20 and $17
Order Tickets
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