by Robin Smith | Mar 31, 2019 | News, Off the Vines Chamber Music
Symphony of the Vines is launching a new mentoring program called Student Spotlight. At designated Off-the-Vines concerts, a local music student will be invited to perform a musical selection. The goal of Student Spotlight is to provide valuable mentoring...
by Robin Smith | Oct 28, 2018 | Concert Excerpt, Off the Vines Chamber Music
Franz Haydn turned the string quartet into a great genre. Music for two violins, viola, and cello had been written for years – usually as background or entertainment music – but in his cycle of 83 quartets Haydn transformed the quartet into an ensemble of four equal...
by Robin Smith | Mar 27, 2019 | Concert Excerpt, Symphony
Concert excerpts below are from Symphony of the Vines Mendelssohn in Scotland, performed March 24, 2019, at Mission San Miguel, CA. In addition, please enjoy an excerpt from Mozart’s Concerto in C Major for Flute and Harp featuring Suzanne Duffy, flute, and...
by Robin Smith | Jan 9, 2019 | Concert Excerpt, Symphony
Overture on Hebrew Themes, Opus 34b SERGE PROKOFIEV Born April 23, 1891, Sontsovka Died March 5, 1953, Moscow (The following are program notes written by Eric Bromberger, who lives in Los Osos. He is a program annotator for the Minnesota Orchestra, San Diego...
by Robin Smith | Mar 10, 2019 | Off the Vines Chamber Music
Concert excerpt of “Fire Dances from Petite Suite for Harp” (1960) Composer David Watkins “Solange Renié wanted to keep her young pupil on scales and studies for at least a year. David now acknowledges she was absolutely right to do so, but at the time this frustrated...
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