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" A MUSICAL FEAST" music and Emily Dickinson

When:
November 19, 2009, 7:00 PM

Where:
Peter & Elizabeth C. Tower Auditorium Burchfield Penney Art Center
1300 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, New York
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Program:
“A MUSICAL FEAST”( www.amusicalfeast.com ) has been named the resident music ensemble of the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo NY. Presenting a concert Thursday, November 19, 2009, 7 PM honoring the memory of composer/pianist Leo Smit. The three pieces of Leo Smit give a lively and inclusive portrait of the late composer/pianist who lived and taught in Buffalo for over thirty years. The composer's Jewish heritage is expressed in the brooding Tzadik (1985) for piano trio, performed by Charles Haupt, violin; Claudia Hoca, piano; Jonathan Golove, cello The Izadik, saintly thaumaturge who appeared in remote, isolated Jewish villages of Eastern Europe nearly three hundred years ago, was the maker of wonders and miracles through his joyful, ecstatic music, suffusing the soul of the universe with his inspired and divine song. The spirit of healing brings wellness to troubled people. The brilliant Dance Card for solo piano (Claudia Hoca) is a suite of four pieces full of allusions to classical composers Smit loved and Childe Emilie is the first cycle in Smit's magnum opus of over 80 settings of the poems of Emily Dickinson, presented by soprano Armanda De Boer and Claudia Hoca, piano.Jean Kopperud, solo clarinet will play III. movement Abyss of the Birds from Olivier Messiaen " Quartet for the End of Time". The concert will end with a jazz piece by Buffalo’s legend Pete Johnson, played and recorded by Leo Smit who passed away in 1999.
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